r/Warhammer May 16 '25

Gretchin's Questions Gretchin's Questions - Weekly Beginner Questions Thread

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Hello Hammerit! Welcome to Gretchin's Questions, our weekly Q&A post to field any and all questions about the Warhammer hobby. Feel free to ask burning questions about Warhammer hobby, lore, gaming and more! If you see something you know the answer to, don't be afraid to drop some knowledge!


r/Warhammer 4h ago

Hobby Opinions on my first basing

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Brand new to the addiction… Gave a few snow bases a try as my first ever as I think they would compliment my Black Templars well.

Any tips/feedback to improve are appreciated!

(Rims will be painted Abandon Black)


r/Warhammer 6h ago

Discussion The Black Library should offer print on demand books

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I've often seen folks in this subreddit and others wistfully wishing the The Black Library, Citadel, or Games Workshop would bring back out of print books as "Print on demand" as it's now pretty simple and there are services offering this for quite cheap.

I wanted to read "Lion El'Jonson: Lord of the First", but have struggled to find any physical copies (I can't read digital). So... I bought the ebook, printed it as an A5 PDF and had a Print on Demand service make me a singular, personal use copy in hardback.

Including the ebook and delivery it cost me a little under £25, which is a tiny fraction of what it would cost to get a decent condition second hand copy off the internet. I've gone through the terms and conditions of the Black Library, and as far as I can tell this totally fine for their Terms of Use. I'd love to see this supported in some official capacity.


r/Warhammer 11h ago

Gaming $15 at secondhand shop

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Full IA combat patrol for $10 and Pariah Nexus mission deck for $5. Truly blessed by The Emperor


r/Warhammer 38m ago

Hobby How would I go about doing this?

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Im entering a competition and want to do the same thing as shown in the above photo.

Anyone got any ideas on how I'd go about doing this?


r/Warhammer 16h ago

Discussion Could anyone identify this mini for me? Particularly the quad chain axe name if it has one.

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Title. I apologize if I am bragging any rules posting this.


r/Warhammer 54m ago

Gaming Just had my frist game with a cheater

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So like the title say I had a game the other day and let just say it found it sad and a bit funny so how did he cheat i was play imperial guard him space marine the frist time i spotted him cheat in the game was turn one he shot my baneblade with a lascanon what he said was str 14 vs my armour of 13 so wounding me on 3+ when I told him lascanon are str 12 he said he had a special lascanon (if cheat it was still str12).

Next everytime he roll a d6 or d3 for numbers of attack he would fast roll it and say it was a 5 or 6, when I could see it was lower number.

Then all his weapons had a extra attack or str or ap or something, what i know the value of on the top of my head but everytime I brought it up all I got was "it a special version of the weapons" what he never showed me in his rule.

So anyone else got a funny cheater story

I brought this up several time how he got thing wrong but he just ignored me half way through round 2 when I realised he not listening and he was going to continue to cheat I just through i see how much he cheat lie or bullshit his army.

After the game he won (if wounder how) he was try yo give me pointer on how to get better and such after he left i when and talk to someone of my friends about they and we agreed it was a little sad to cheat in a friendly game but it was funny how bad he was at hiding it.

Edit In the end i did tell the store about him they said he only been going to the store for a week or two and I was his first game they said they keep a eye on him and ban him if he continues


r/Warhammer 7h ago

Hobby “Are we Penitent enough yet?” feat Arco-Flagellants

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r/Warhammer 7h ago

Discussion 10th edition trash?

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Hello,

I've been playing Warhammer since 9th edition. And while I've enjoyed 10th (65 games played) I've always missed the more "tedious" parts of older editions. I recently played a few small scale games of 4th, and it's the best fun I've ever had. From the army building to the special rules in battle, something crazy is always going on. The game just feels less "esportsy" Has anyone else had this feeling with 10th?


r/Warhammer 4h ago

Hobby I have chapter selection paralysis, here's some test models :D

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r/Warhammer 7h ago

Hobby First ever warhammer mini

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Give as much advice as you want I need all of it


r/Warhammer 5h ago

Art Bonesinger Wraithlord (full story in comment, cosmis horror/bliss warning)

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r/Warhammer 24m ago

Hobby Leviathan Dreadnought: "The Coffin of Screams"

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The armored sarcophagus houses a Night Lord who's name was long forgotten by his legion. Dubbed The Coffin of Screams for the incoherent noise emitted through its vox and the screams of it's victims.

Photo edit done by my girlfriend


r/Warhammer 31m ago

Hobby My interpretation of a Night Lords Champion. What can I say, I like colors 🤣

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r/Warhammer 4h ago

Hobby My Fateskimmer

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r/Warhammer 16h ago

Hobby Am I super slow at building

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It takes me around 30 mins to build a single standard infantry model like a krieg combat engineer with shotgun

It feels very slow when I see online people saying they built a box in an hour or 2 when in that time I would have 2 or 4 models built

Plus how do you avoid cutting into the model and leaving a dent when removing sprue connection points with a knife


r/Warhammer 1h ago

Joke [OC] Tams looting knows no limits.

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r/Warhammer 1d ago

Hobby Lord of Plagues Conversion

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2.2k Upvotes

Used a Lord Terminos from the Skaventide box set as my base. C+C welcome!


r/Warhammer 21h ago

Hobby I finished my first dreadnaught

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What do you think?


r/Warhammer 18h ago

Hobby Finished Von Ryan’s Leaper

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85 Upvotes

r/Warhammer 18h ago

Art Did someone order techmarine

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Painting the backpack skull gold now, just saw it on upload.


r/Warhammer 4h ago

Discussion Highlighting advice please - what colours!?

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r/Warhammer 6h ago

Hobby Blood for the bloodgod on the wings was a big mistake but gladly its just paint which I can overpaint

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r/Warhammer 1d ago

Hobby Finished my Blood Angels Lemartes Im entering at LVO in Oct... Description in first reply!

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194 Upvotes

r/Warhammer 5h ago

Hobby What do you think?

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I’ve been working on and off with this guy for about a week, I finally just tried to get it all done last night, how did I do? I was really trying to go for the Grimdark with this one btw.


r/Warhammer 1d ago

Discussion What are the advantages of Warhammer+ at this point?

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I’ve been subbed since day 1 only for the minis really. But it felt like during the first two years they would have regular animations which were interesting. I believe we are on year 4 maybe 5 and frankly in the last year or two it feels like there has barely been anything on that front. I tried to look at their old books in their library but the fact they purposely removed all rules from them really ticked me off because I wanted to see the old games and read about how to play them.

I felt like at least at first they were trying to make it about more than just the minis but at this point I don’t think there is anything but the minis. What am I missing? And I get they make the same content YouTubers do and put it behind a paywall but I am not interested in that.