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  • Ukrainian morale suffers as troop favourite Warhammer stops translating novels - Soldiers may be forced to rely on Russian versions of fantasy books associated with British fantasy game

    https://archive.is/20250825141624/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/08/25/ukrainian-morale-troop-favourite- warhammer-translations-end/#selection-2287.4-2287.83

    Games Workshop, the creator of Warhammer 40,000, has been branded “W---er’s Workshop” by Ukrainian troops after it stopped translations into Ukrainian. Over the summer, the British firm behind the fantasy tabletop game cancelled a publishing deal with Molfar Comics, a Kyiv publishing house. Molfar had been producing Ukrainian translations of novels set in the game’s so-called “grimdark” space universe. The decision has bitterly disappointed Ukrainian soldiers who, perhaps surprisingly, rely on Warhammer games and books as distraction from the horrors of Vladimir Putin’s genocidal invasion. A Ukrainian special forces sergeant told The Telegraph that the loss of new Warhammer novels in Ukrainian was a blow to morale. Access to Ukrainian translations was more important than ever, he said, because soldiers should not have to rely on bootleg translations in Russian, the language of their enemy. “Warhammer 40,000 holds a secret spot in my heart, as well as thousands of Ukrainian soldiers from all the branches and services of the defence forces of Ukraine,” said the sergeant, who can be identified only by his call sign “Shekel” for security reasons. Warhammer 40,000, often known simply as Warhammer, was designed in the late 1980s in London. Hobbyists paint miniature soldiers, tanks and aliens, and play games on tabletops with them.