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Warhammer 40,000 (sometimes colloquially called Warhammer 40K, WH40K or 40k) is a miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop. It is the most popular miniature wargame in the world, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and is particularly popular in the United Kingdom. [ 4 ]
Brief summary of Army overall. Mention in one or two sentences that the Army in question is a "fictitious faction of (humaniod/elf-like/bug-like, etc. Alien race/Humans) who fight for (purpose) using (main strategies and/or overall peculiar characteristics) in the table-top boardgame Warhammer 40,000 with a "(See main article: Warhammer 40,000)".
Co-creating Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40,000 Richard " Rick " Priestley (born 29 March 1959) [ 1 ] is an English miniature wargame designer and writer. He co-created the miniature wargame Warhammer Fantasy Battle and its science fiction counterpart Warhammer 40,000 during his tenure at Games Workshop in the 1980s and 1990s.
Each Warhammer campaign has had a new codex published with the rules for special characters or "incomplete" army lists. Below are listed the Games Workshop Worldwide Campaigns (with the campaign's fictional universe setting in parentheses): 1997 - A Dark Conspiracy (Warhammer) [159] 2000 - Third War for Armageddon (Warhammer 40,000) [160]
Epic is a collective term for a series of tabletop wargames set in the fictional Horus Heresy and Warhammer 40,000 universes. Whereas Warhammer 40,000 involves small battles between forces of a few squads of troops and two or three vehicles, Epic features battles between armies consisting of dozens of tanks and hundreds of soldiers. [1]
An Army Book in the Warhammer Fantasy tabletop wargame, is a rules supplement containing information concerning a particular army, environment, or worldwide campaign. Army Books for particular armies were introduced for the fourth edition of the game (prior to that all armies were included in the main rulebook).
A typical game of Warhammer 40,000 ranges from 500 to a little over 2,000 points. [7] The introduction of the Apocalypse sourcebook offered players a streamlined ruleset for playing games of well over 3,000 points. [8] Apocalypse also allows for the use of allies, in order to help players to reach an Apocalypse size army.
Necromunda is a skirmish tabletop war game produced by Games Workshop since 1995. It has been relaunched as Necromunda: Underhive in 2017. In Necromunda, players control rival gangs battling each other in the Underhive, a place of anarchy and violence in the depths below the Hive City.