Most of you come here having a good idea of what Warhammer is. Many are frequent or occasional players who know what I’m talking about. However, there are others who are still trying to understand what Warhammer (or for that matter, tabletop gaming) is. I started working on this a couple of months ago just to help out you who are still walking across uncharted territories; a short guide introducing Warhammer 40k (and which will help you understand table-top wargames in general hopefully). I present to you Part One of the Warhammer 40K Beginner’s Guide.
This guide isn’t meant to be exhaustive or extremely detailed. It’s not a rulebook, it’s not supposed to turn you into a pro. What it should do is to give you an overall understanding of the Warhammer 40K game; The aims of the game, the general structure and mechanics (basic army structure, turns, movement, measuring, and so on), a description of the various races and forces available to the player, and how, where, and with what the interested beginning player can get started. Basically I just want you to read this and be able to understand what the hell those 40k (and even Warhammer fantasy) gamers are talking about, so that your shift from total newbie to actual player is somewhat smoother.
I will be adding the other parts over the coming weeks, and will put up the guide for download as a PDF file as soon as it’s all online. Enjoy!
Do you like making scenery? No? Then you’re like a lot of other tabletop Wargamers. At the same time, those Games-Workshop scenery pieces don’ really attract you so much. Grey hunks of plastic which will probably take as long as your army to pain – the army you never even finished.
Are you stick forever in boxes-for-hills and pieces-of-torn-paper-for-lakes hell? The short answer is not necessarily, if you decide to take a look at these pre-painted scenery pieces from Wargame Terrain. All terrain pieces are made to order.
“What about the price?”, I hear you say. Cheap. Hand-made, hand-painted, and full of detail, these pieces sell like hotcakes for between $16.95 and $23.95, though in truth you can get them for as cheap as $12.71 each!
See these 2 lovelies? They cost just $16.95 each. That for the materials, the time taken to carve out all those pieces, the time taken to undercoat and paint or drybrush each of those pieces, and the time taken to actually put them together. I’m sure that would amount to more than $16.95 if you had to clock the hours to do it yourself.
Oh yeah – did I mention you get free shipping to the U.S.? And that of you buy 3 you get the 4th 1 free?
So let me recap – this guy offers scenery that is:
- Made to Order
- Hand Made
- Painted
- Shipped for Free
- Plain Cool
- You buy 3 and get the 4th one free – that’s basically just $12.71 per piece.
You’re getting great-looking, hand-made and painted scenery delivered for free to your front door for ONLY $12.71 a piece.
Check out the awesome terrain you can show off to your friends (who need to tell them you bought it) at Wargame Terrain
Click here to visit Wargame Terrain.
At last we have launched what could be called Version0.1 of our Classifieds section for everything 40k! If you have any Warhammer 40k miniatures, accessories, books, paints, or anything 40k related that you would like to sell off, list it with out classifieds section. We get 100’s to 1000’s of visitors a day, and, more importantly, the service is free!
While you might have been using Ebay, it can be quite a hassle with all the little fees you incur for putting up your product and putting extra pictures, and so on. Our classifieds section is especially good if you are looking to sell your stuff without paying any extra fees. While the service is currently quite basic, we will update the service as it grows.
So if you want to get rid of your old 40k stuff, put it up for sale on 40kminiatures.com’s online classifieds section – it’s simple and it’s free!
http://40kminiatures.com/40k-market-place/classifieds/
The upcoming movie by Games Workshop, Ultramarines, is going to utilise face-animation technology from Image Metrics, a company which has worked on projects such as Grand Theft Auto IV, Assassin’s Creed® II, and the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie. Their technology captures facial features and their movements in very great detail, allowing for great realism in animated characters.
Check out http://ultramarinesthemovie.com/news for other updates.
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