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.

    • Chomsky [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      To be honest, I hadn't even thought about 3d printing, but someone mentioned it and now I am sort of more interested in that idea, but I don't even know where to start in terms of what would be a reasonable printer and where I would get plans for things and so on.

      Aside from that, painting, collecting and actually playing the game are what interest me. Building terrain seems like it could be pretty fun too.

      • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        For 3D printers you would be looking at the eligoo mars if you want to print minis or the ender creativity if you want to print vehicles and terrain, and othet stuff.

        Those are the entry versions of the diffrent techs that are avaiable. Plus. I am sure at least a few of us here got one st the begining of quarentine and never really used it.

        Models are readiliy avaible online. On thing a verse there are multiple diffrent "space hero" sets available.

        If you just want to play tabletop sinulator is good. As well as another one that just lets you play online but I forgot what the other one was. When restriction lifts your local gameshop might have closed or be full of chuds so it might be the best option for you anyway