It all started with about 1200s into total war: Warhammer 2, which got me into watching Total war: Warhammer streams, got me to start mixing warhammer lore into my D & D games, then I started playing Vermintide 2 and loved it, to listening to the Gotrek and Felix audio books. It would seem that I haved transformed into a bit of a Warhammer fancomrade. When I was a kid I was always into warhammer minis, but I never had the money to get enough to put together an army and ended up using them mostly as minis for when we switched from AD&D 2nd edition to the more mini focused 3rd edition, but now with my renewed interest in the lore and universe, I have been playing with the idea of getting into it a bit more seriously and putting an actual army together and playing. First, since I am more familiar with the fantasy universe, I was looking into Age of Sigmar, but I just wasn't quite happy with it. One of my favorite factions are Druchii and I wasn't really happy with the options for that. I have been looking now at 40k more and I am starting to settle in on the idea of Chaos Space Marines.

All this history aside, I have a few questions about what is involved in getting into this sport.

  1. What all would I need to get started? The rulebook and the relavent codex/ices? One of the starter sets?

  2. How many miniatures would I need to be able to play a reasonable battle? If I got the starter set how much would I need to add to that or would that be a reasonable way to start to learn the rules?

  3. What are good resources for learning to paint them nicely?

  4. Does anyone have any good tips on how to get started on DIY terrain? I think in the country side and was thinking about collecting moss and shit.

  5. Any other tips, tricks or pitfalls?

I don't know if anyone in the community even plays this game, but I thought I was throw it out there.

  • hopelesscomrade [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    You can always get a start collecting sets or the kill team board game. The starter sets always have the best deals, but look forward to dropping 100-200 on a set and paints. GW's citadel paints can run for like 7 dollars a pot. Army painter runs for like 4 per pot and there are resources online for matching paints. I do a lot of dnd mininutures, so I also bought Nolzur's marvelous pigments. It like 100, but has a paint for about every color if you want to customize your army. Don't get craft Paints. They are cheaper, but the quality is so much better. Otherwise just get like 8 or so pots for your army's color and highlights

    Tips. Just watch videos on youtube. I got into that for a while. The warhammer youtube channel is has tutorials on a lot of models, though if you follow their paint schemes prepare to drop a ton on high lights.

    I could keep going, but another guy has already listed a bunch of good channels. I'm more of a dnd guy, but I do have some experience painting Imperial guard if you have any questions on them.

    On final thing. Your first paint job are gonna look like shit. Everyone first minis look like shit. As long as you are having fun, don't worry about it. It can be intimidating spending so much on minitures, but just go for it. Some people say practice on army men first, but your not gonna learn to paint the details until you get to the real deal. The more important thing is to have fun. Good luck.