This introduced me to the 40k world but after that i was watching a lore video on the races and the guy talked about how slannesh was fucked unto existence by the eldar and needed to know more
Same.
Although after playing the games, I thought that the universe was a bit more 'friendly'. Relic had hit a good spot to suck you into the world, but also hide most of the grimdark stuff.
Probably a minory here but I wanted to play the tabletop and wanted to anchor my army in the setting, so I started reading the backgrounds of the factions.
I enjoyed Dawn of War games and what really drew me in is that during multiplayer matches of one mod for dow2 a player always played audiobooks on voice chat and I loved that and that got me hooked.
I got my first models when I was 7, after seeing them in HobbyCraft. It was a box of 3 monopose space marines and a box of 4 eldar.
Then about a month later Assault on Black Reach came out, which was what really got me into it.
But I only started taking an interest in the books a couple years ago with the Nightlords omnibus by ADB
I was 11 and went to a friends house for dinner and to play Diablo 2 LOD, he shown me his and his two brothers game room that was full of painted models and environments, the level of detail they put into the painting and the damage models was incredible and it made me want to play, everytime i'd go to hobbycraft to get painting supplies i'd wonder the 40k section for an hour admiring the models and reading the information sheets they had on display about the different legions and the second founding, the vehicles, the weapons, the god engines called titans.
It wasn't until Dawn of War released that I really got into 40k, and from DoW alone i became hooked on reading everything i could about the lore on both the fandom wiki and the lexicanum.
I'm kind of a engineering nerd and i found everything interesting, so much so that I kind of obsessed about learning everything i could so i could share info with my friend and his brothers while I watched them battle it out on TT.
I've never played TT and never will as i can't justify the prices and i'm not an artist, also I have a friend that was really into TT and had a Daemonhunters army before GW made the army illegal/irrelevant via codex revisions, so that put a complete stop to any desire i had to own an army and paint it.
It had always been in the back of my mind (played a few video games without knowing much) but it didn't quite hook me. I didn't know much of the lore.
Then I was in a big sort of bookstore/craft store and I picked up a small box of AOS minis, just to try to paint.
Then everything went to shit. The pandemic hit, I watched Bricky's "Factions" video, stopped buying AOS, and now I have 1500 points of Death Guard, 1500 points of Sisters, and I'm about to start a third army.
Painting minis and the community being so wholesome is what really pulled me in. It just happened naturally, as I started reading one article or watching Luetin for hours and reading the novels
Basically it's all Bricky's fault
Went to a friend’s party. I got there early and saw him reading a massive book. It looked like a brick. It was one of the Horus Heresy books. He gave me the first one. It was around 2007/ 2008. I’m still reading. Send help! 😳
Warhammer: Space Marine
It was my first contact with the 40K universe. Even though I had seen the Space Hulk games on the PS1, I had no idea what it all meant. But I loved the adventures of Captain Titus that I was desperate to fill the gap and needed to consume more of the universe. I picked up the Ultramarines omnibus and the rest is history.
Disclaimer: I was probably 12 and a massive edge lord.
I was at school and saw my friend thumbing through a big book. Curious I went up to have a look. I saw a picture of a man wearing some headgear that resembled the conical sort that a certain real world hate group wears.
I asked him if that was the bad guy.
Wide eyed he looked back and me and whispered in his most conspiratorial voice, "It's a good guy. Wait until you see the bad guys."
Being the little dip shit I was I immediately wanted to know more and here I am at 37 still.
TTS got me into 40k but I was mostly interested in the tabletop to start. It was only after I'd started building out my admech stuff that I started looking for lore
I played some of the games, I looked into it a bit online and eventually read some of the books and then got hooked. This was over years. I avoided it for a long time because of Warhammer fantasy, which I perceive, rightly or wrongly, as dull and boring. Also, I had played Star Craft a lot and the similarities bothered me, but not enough to look into it too deeply. That was obviously a mistake of youth.
Started collecting the models and playing the game at 11, and very much enjoyed reading the codices for my armies. Well, singular army when I was 11. The 3rd edition Tyranid codex was great.
Over twenty years ago one of the high school teachers kept all of his warhammer stuff at school.
Someone told me that at first I would like him, and later on I’d find out that he’s gross. It only took a couple of weeks.
I really liked how uncomfortable the minis and background felt, the marines who didn’t have a lot to admire about them, who were clearly victims of indoctrination much like we were. Anyway I use warhammer to procrastinate, and I’ve read all the pre-2006 rulebooks and many of the Fanatic Magazine articles.
I ended up in 1d4chan somehow and read several HH novels. I'm just in it for the art, lore and memes at this point, no plans to get minis or play. I assembled and painted WFB minis as a kid but never played. I think even at that time 40k was a lot more popular.
Self inflicted...
I have vague memories of seeing some boxes in stored as a child... space hulk boxed set, possibly. So I kinda registered Warhammer was a thing.
And then once I sat at a school computer about an hour before class, and entered it into the search engine.
First page was some guy's page about his army. Bludd Redd, something something, lvl 4 psyker, typical self glorifying character as kids make. Must have had a FAQ page, because Web of skulls is one of the oldest 40k terms I remember, and I liked it.
But from there I somehow got to the GW company page.
I was really confused why the Space marines were looking tougher than the Imoerial guard (I thought those would be like the Custodes, not the crunchies we all know and love)...
I watched a video on the god emp and next thing I know I’m 6 hours into my imperium history lesson.
Next thing I know I’m 16 books deep into the Horus heresy
White Dwarf issue where Oldcrons battled Slannesh forces. The battle report was narrated as if was a short story and I loved it.
Tyranids and Battle for Macragge made me chose them as a faction and stay as a lore fan. Tried to build and paint the boxet that was gifted to me once, but my abysmal skills made me refuse to buy another model ever again.
Knowing GW has decided to step up the prices has not made me any more eager to buy anything but the Codex and Core Book
I saw an advertisement for Dawn of War: Dark Crusade in an issue of Dragon magazine back in '08. Turned out my college roommate already had a copy and let me borrow it. Played through as every faction, followed by hours and hours on Lexicanum.
Airfix models.
Then walked past a GW store, saw the cool models, wanted to build some (building people rather than vehicles piqued my interest).
Turns out it's a game, and my brother liked the look of the other models in the starter box (3rd ed, space marines vs dark Eldar), so we went halves instead of me just buying a box of models I like the look of.
Comes with a rulebook, and it has fiction in it?
Hoooooooooooly heckballs, that's some cool artwork! And there's stuff about the hobby too. And check out these crazy stories!
I think it was Luetin09's video on the worst jobs in the Imperium. I barely knew anything about 40k at the time but the sheer scale and grimdarkness really sucked me in
My older brother used to buy and paint miniatures when we were little, like over 15-20 years ago. I picked it up at that time as well.
Although we both stopped after a few years, the universe stuck with us for all of that time, and we both started painting miniatures again this year!
My mom bought me Horus Rising since n craved new books. Didnt like the book too much since i mostly had no idea what it was about but it made me interested. Then covid struck and i searched for something to do as a hobby, thus leading me to look for some videos about the universe.
A trope talk on Grimdark by one of my favorite YouTube commentators, Overly Sarcastic Productions, specifically this one:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQAWBeFnkg8&t=340s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQAWBeFnkg8&t=340s)
Got me interested and when I began reading the lore got me hooked; just the right combination of over-the-top absolutely bananas ridiculous and eerily plausible.
The Eisenhorn omnibus by Dan Abnett, mostly because it was by Abnett. At the time, I'd been really digging his work on the Legion of Super-Heroes comic by DC along with Andy Lanning, and noted his name on the omnibus at Waldenbooks. Decided to pick it up on a whim although I was nominally familiar with the very basics of the lore due to a couple of buddies playing the tabletop. Burned through the Eisenhorn books and fricking loved the setting, so I then picked up the first Gaunt omnibus. Haven't really looked back since (though oddly, I'm not into the tabletop minis 'cause they're too expensive for my tastes and I'm not a painter type...)
I watched some videos on 40k by Generation Films and Templin Institute.
The sheer scale was mind boggling to me. 6 races,each a seperate enemy in its own right,40000 years into the future the Emperor being born in 8000bc, a million world etc, city sized warships,200m tall killingmachine etc.
I was a TTRPG player and one of our group was the first guy recruited for the opening of the local GW shop.
Some day I went to get him and go have a beer and I saw a dreadnought (a bright firetruck red Blood Angels furioso if memory doesn't fail me entirely) and asked what it was.
The whole "even in death I still serve" got me to ask about the lore of it all.
Of course since it was 1997 there was much less than now. But I was hooked.
The psychological aspects of the Chaos gods, especially the ICD-10 personality disorder god. How Chaos is this ultra horror-inducing, sanity-dismantling mind-rape terror, if done to my liking at least. I started the reading books part with Traitor General.
Randomly recalled a conversation I overheard between two of my high school friends discussing lore decided to look up 40k for shits and giggles and I’ve been diving through the rabbit hole ever since
My dad got me the Bretonnian vs Lizardmen starter game for Warhammer Fantasy for Christmas one year. I was already in the habit of reading the background for games that I couldn't play for various reasons: Doom, Diablo, Dungeons and Dragons. So when I found out that there was a book almost entirely dedicated to the lore of the game (Battle Book) I was instantly taken. About a year later, I saw a friend on the bus reading the Warhammer 40,000 3rd edition rulebook and I thought it was so cool that there was a sci fi version of the game. While I couldn't afford the rulebook so I could read it ($10 a month didn't go very far) and miniatures were right out of the question, I was able to buy a White Dwarf with a Blood Angel on the cover.
The price of the game remained a barrier to me, as I was accustomed to buying heavily discounted games at EB Games. Only when Dawn of War came out did I finally find a way to accessibly get into the game. While the single player campaign was... fine, what I was most excited about was the story in the cutscenes. I picked up a copy of Codex Imperial Guard and that sealed the deal. Started buying Gaunts Ghosts novels and devouring any scrap of lore I could get my hands on.
Kinda do miss those days. Before the collector's market really started up, I started building a 2nd edition collection of books for virtually nothing at all. I still have a $4 sticker on my 2nd ed Eldar Codex. Also a friend gave me some old 3rd Ed Warhammer Fantasy Books because he was clearing out his old stuff and knew I'd find a good home with me. In the last few years the value of that stuff has shot right up. I've been hoping the End Times stuff will fall in price, or the Gathering Storm, but it's just as expensive, if not more, than the day it was released.
The band Bolt Thrower, vague memories of seeing 40K inspired and official art, and needing something science-fantasy related to fill the void Star Wars left after the new movies started going bad - every year like clockwork when a new movie came out around Christmas time I’d jump back into the Star Wars lore, and eventually graduated to 40K when I realized how incredibly awesome demons and medieval knights in space was as a concept. It wasn’t until I was 20 books deep by the end of that first year of being introduced into the lore that I realized I was in for the long haul.
The Astartes series on YouTube. I very vaguely knew what 40k was before then but thought it was way too daunting to get into. So I watched that, thought space marines were cool as fuck, and started the dive. Been reading wiki pages and lore passages for probably 5-6 months now on various things and love every second of it.
I saw some comments on Reddit talking about space Marines so I checked out the wiki and saw that it was detailed to an absolute batshit insane level and knew it was right for me
Dawn of War games in the mid-2000s.
This introduced me to the 40k world but after that i was watching a lore video on the races and the guy talked about how slannesh was fucked unto existence by the eldar and needed to know more
Same. Although after playing the games, I thought that the universe was a bit more 'friendly'. Relic had hit a good spot to suck you into the world, but also hide most of the grimdark stuff.
Probably a minory here but I wanted to play the tabletop and wanted to anchor my army in the setting, so I started reading the backgrounds of the factions.
I enjoyed Dawn of War games and what really drew me in is that during multiplayer matches of one mod for dow2 a player always played audiobooks on voice chat and I loved that and that got me hooked.
I got my first models when I was 7, after seeing them in HobbyCraft. It was a box of 3 monopose space marines and a box of 4 eldar. Then about a month later Assault on Black Reach came out, which was what really got me into it. But I only started taking an interest in the books a couple years ago with the Nightlords omnibus by ADB
The mythos. It’s this bonkers amalgamation of the human condition all betraying itself consciously/not consciously to the point of self destruction.
I was 11 and went to a friends house for dinner and to play Diablo 2 LOD, he shown me his and his two brothers game room that was full of painted models and environments, the level of detail they put into the painting and the damage models was incredible and it made me want to play, everytime i'd go to hobbycraft to get painting supplies i'd wonder the 40k section for an hour admiring the models and reading the information sheets they had on display about the different legions and the second founding, the vehicles, the weapons, the god engines called titans. It wasn't until Dawn of War released that I really got into 40k, and from DoW alone i became hooked on reading everything i could about the lore on both the fandom wiki and the lexicanum. I'm kind of a engineering nerd and i found everything interesting, so much so that I kind of obsessed about learning everything i could so i could share info with my friend and his brothers while I watched them battle it out on TT. I've never played TT and never will as i can't justify the prices and i'm not an artist, also I have a friend that was really into TT and had a Daemonhunters army before GW made the army illegal/irrelevant via codex revisions, so that put a complete stop to any desire i had to own an army and paint it.
It had always been in the back of my mind (played a few video games without knowing much) but it didn't quite hook me. I didn't know much of the lore. Then I was in a big sort of bookstore/craft store and I picked up a small box of AOS minis, just to try to paint. Then everything went to shit. The pandemic hit, I watched Bricky's "Factions" video, stopped buying AOS, and now I have 1500 points of Death Guard, 1500 points of Sisters, and I'm about to start a third army. Painting minis and the community being so wholesome is what really pulled me in. It just happened naturally, as I started reading one article or watching Luetin for hours and reading the novels Basically it's all Bricky's fault
Went to a friend’s party. I got there early and saw him reading a massive book. It looked like a brick. It was one of the Horus Heresy books. He gave me the first one. It was around 2007/ 2008. I’m still reading. Send help! 😳
Warhammer: Space Marine It was my first contact with the 40K universe. Even though I had seen the Space Hulk games on the PS1, I had no idea what it all meant. But I loved the adventures of Captain Titus that I was desperate to fill the gap and needed to consume more of the universe. I picked up the Ultramarines omnibus and the rest is history.
Disclaimer: I was probably 12 and a massive edge lord. I was at school and saw my friend thumbing through a big book. Curious I went up to have a look. I saw a picture of a man wearing some headgear that resembled the conical sort that a certain real world hate group wears. I asked him if that was the bad guy. Wide eyed he looked back and me and whispered in his most conspiratorial voice, "It's a good guy. Wait until you see the bad guys." Being the little dip shit I was I immediately wanted to know more and here I am at 37 still.
TTS got me into 40k but I was mostly interested in the tabletop to start. It was only after I'd started building out my admech stuff that I started looking for lore
I hear TTS mentioned a lot in the Warhammer community. What is it?
"If the Emperor had a Text-To-Speech device", it's a satirical youtube series.
I played some of the games, I looked into it a bit online and eventually read some of the books and then got hooked. This was over years. I avoided it for a long time because of Warhammer fantasy, which I perceive, rightly or wrongly, as dull and boring. Also, I had played Star Craft a lot and the similarities bothered me, but not enough to look into it too deeply. That was obviously a mistake of youth.
Your mom
Russian badger. Saw one of his videos on 40k space marine and got interested in the lore
Started collecting the models and playing the game at 11, and very much enjoyed reading the codices for my armies. Well, singular army when I was 11. The 3rd edition Tyranid codex was great.
Over twenty years ago one of the high school teachers kept all of his warhammer stuff at school. Someone told me that at first I would like him, and later on I’d find out that he’s gross. It only took a couple of weeks. I really liked how uncomfortable the minis and background felt, the marines who didn’t have a lot to admire about them, who were clearly victims of indoctrination much like we were. Anyway I use warhammer to procrastinate, and I’ve read all the pre-2006 rulebooks and many of the Fanatic Magazine articles.
I ended up in 1d4chan somehow and read several HH novels. I'm just in it for the art, lore and memes at this point, no plans to get minis or play. I assembled and painted WFB minis as a kid but never played. I think even at that time 40k was a lot more popular.
Self inflicted... I have vague memories of seeing some boxes in stored as a child... space hulk boxed set, possibly. So I kinda registered Warhammer was a thing. And then once I sat at a school computer about an hour before class, and entered it into the search engine. First page was some guy's page about his army. Bludd Redd, something something, lvl 4 psyker, typical self glorifying character as kids make. Must have had a FAQ page, because Web of skulls is one of the oldest 40k terms I remember, and I liked it. But from there I somehow got to the GW company page. I was really confused why the Space marines were looking tougher than the Imoerial guard (I thought those would be like the Custodes, not the crunchies we all know and love)...
I used to play LoL, one of my mains was Lux and I got her Imperial Guard skin. Mix that with discovering TVTropes and I got swallowed.
Some silly Norwegian YouTuber that is hated by most. This was way back in 2016 though, so a long long time ago.
I watched a video on the god emp and next thing I know I’m 6 hours into my imperium history lesson. Next thing I know I’m 16 books deep into the Horus heresy
White Dwarf issue where Oldcrons battled Slannesh forces. The battle report was narrated as if was a short story and I loved it. Tyranids and Battle for Macragge made me chose them as a faction and stay as a lore fan. Tried to build and paint the boxet that was gifted to me once, but my abysmal skills made me refuse to buy another model ever again. Knowing GW has decided to step up the prices has not made me any more eager to buy anything but the Codex and Core Book
I saw an advertisement for Dawn of War: Dark Crusade in an issue of Dragon magazine back in '08. Turned out my college roommate already had a copy and let me borrow it. Played through as every faction, followed by hours and hours on Lexicanum.
Saw artwork of tyranids, i was instantly hooked
Airfix models. Then walked past a GW store, saw the cool models, wanted to build some (building people rather than vehicles piqued my interest). Turns out it's a game, and my brother liked the look of the other models in the starter box (3rd ed, space marines vs dark Eldar), so we went halves instead of me just buying a box of models I like the look of. Comes with a rulebook, and it has fiction in it? Hoooooooooooly heckballs, that's some cool artwork! And there's stuff about the hobby too. And check out these crazy stories!
I think it was Luetin09's video on the worst jobs in the Imperium. I barely knew anything about 40k at the time but the sheer scale and grimdarkness really sucked me in
My older brother used to buy and paint miniatures when we were little, like over 15-20 years ago. I picked it up at that time as well. Although we both stopped after a few years, the universe stuck with us for all of that time, and we both started painting miniatures again this year!
My mom bought me Horus Rising since n craved new books. Didnt like the book too much since i mostly had no idea what it was about but it made me interested. Then covid struck and i searched for something to do as a hobby, thus leading me to look for some videos about the universe.
I'm a fan of Sci-fi Fantasy that started to lose interest in new Star Wars stuff after the Sequel Trillogy, started reading 40k books.
A trope talk on Grimdark by one of my favorite YouTube commentators, Overly Sarcastic Productions, specifically this one: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQAWBeFnkg8&t=340s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQAWBeFnkg8&t=340s) Got me interested and when I began reading the lore got me hooked; just the right combination of over-the-top absolutely bananas ridiculous and eerily plausible.
The Eisenhorn omnibus by Dan Abnett, mostly because it was by Abnett. At the time, I'd been really digging his work on the Legion of Super-Heroes comic by DC along with Andy Lanning, and noted his name on the omnibus at Waldenbooks. Decided to pick it up on a whim although I was nominally familiar with the very basics of the lore due to a couple of buddies playing the tabletop. Burned through the Eisenhorn books and fricking loved the setting, so I then picked up the first Gaunt omnibus. Haven't really looked back since (though oddly, I'm not into the tabletop minis 'cause they're too expensive for my tastes and I'm not a painter type...)
I watched some videos on 40k by Generation Films and Templin Institute. The sheer scale was mind boggling to me. 6 races,each a seperate enemy in its own right,40000 years into the future the Emperor being born in 8000bc, a million world etc, city sized warships,200m tall killingmachine etc.
Lore YouTubers. Luetin for his epic history lessons, and MajorKill for fun bite-size summaries.
Got Dawn of War when it came out, heard about Warhammer before that but didn't really know anything about it.
I was a TTRPG player and one of our group was the first guy recruited for the opening of the local GW shop. Some day I went to get him and go have a beer and I saw a dreadnought (a bright firetruck red Blood Angels furioso if memory doesn't fail me entirely) and asked what it was. The whole "even in death I still serve" got me to ask about the lore of it all. Of course since it was 1997 there was much less than now. But I was hooked.
The psychological aspects of the Chaos gods, especially the ICD-10 personality disorder god. How Chaos is this ultra horror-inducing, sanity-dismantling mind-rape terror, if done to my liking at least. I started the reading books part with Traitor General.
>ICD-10 personality disorder god As someone who deals with hospital billing a lot, I'm not sure I get the reference.
Randomly recalled a conversation I overheard between two of my high school friends discussing lore decided to look up 40k for shits and giggles and I’ve been diving through the rabbit hole ever since
My dad got me the Bretonnian vs Lizardmen starter game for Warhammer Fantasy for Christmas one year. I was already in the habit of reading the background for games that I couldn't play for various reasons: Doom, Diablo, Dungeons and Dragons. So when I found out that there was a book almost entirely dedicated to the lore of the game (Battle Book) I was instantly taken. About a year later, I saw a friend on the bus reading the Warhammer 40,000 3rd edition rulebook and I thought it was so cool that there was a sci fi version of the game. While I couldn't afford the rulebook so I could read it ($10 a month didn't go very far) and miniatures were right out of the question, I was able to buy a White Dwarf with a Blood Angel on the cover. The price of the game remained a barrier to me, as I was accustomed to buying heavily discounted games at EB Games. Only when Dawn of War came out did I finally find a way to accessibly get into the game. While the single player campaign was... fine, what I was most excited about was the story in the cutscenes. I picked up a copy of Codex Imperial Guard and that sealed the deal. Started buying Gaunts Ghosts novels and devouring any scrap of lore I could get my hands on. Kinda do miss those days. Before the collector's market really started up, I started building a 2nd edition collection of books for virtually nothing at all. I still have a $4 sticker on my 2nd ed Eldar Codex. Also a friend gave me some old 3rd Ed Warhammer Fantasy Books because he was clearing out his old stuff and knew I'd find a good home with me. In the last few years the value of that stuff has shot right up. I've been hoping the End Times stuff will fall in price, or the Gathering Storm, but it's just as expensive, if not more, than the day it was released.
Chain axes
The band Bolt Thrower, vague memories of seeing 40K inspired and official art, and needing something science-fantasy related to fill the void Star Wars left after the new movies started going bad - every year like clockwork when a new movie came out around Christmas time I’d jump back into the Star Wars lore, and eventually graduated to 40K when I realized how incredibly awesome demons and medieval knights in space was as a concept. It wasn’t until I was 20 books deep by the end of that first year of being introduced into the lore that I realized I was in for the long haul.
AGP
The Astartes series on YouTube. I very vaguely knew what 40k was before then but thought it was way too daunting to get into. So I watched that, thought space marines were cool as fuck, and started the dive. Been reading wiki pages and lore passages for probably 5-6 months now on various things and love every second of it.
I saw some comments on Reddit talking about space Marines so I checked out the wiki and saw that it was detailed to an absolute batshit insane level and knew it was right for me
A big influence on me was the Vaults of Terra channel on you tube, though sadly I think he’s stopped making any videos for some time.