A tale of three gamers - Warhammer the Old World style Welcome to the inaugural issue of this series: Old World: New Tricks! In this series, three intrepid wargamers (read, hoary old gits) will finally be taking the collective plunge into the Old World. For two of us its a return to a childhood love; for another, this is a brave new (old?) frontier. The format for this series is pretty simple: a monthly update as we build, paint and play with our burgeoning forces of square-b

Oblivion, Warhammer the Old World and the role of nostalgia in gaming

Keeping the lost legions unknown: why I hope we don't find out 40k's deepest secrets This article is inspired by two YouTube videos I have watched (and rewatched) recently. The first is a breezy intro to some of the most intriguing unknowns in 40k courtesy of Tabletop Tactics; the second, a deep-dive into one of the greatest mysteries of 40k from Arbitor Ian. I love content like this, an un-tapped space in which to debate and speculate. But in an age of returning Primarchs an

With the end of the Horus Heresy, what next for the Black Library? Last year, we reached the End and the Death of the Horus Heresy series: a fitting capstone to a monumental series. I read Horus Rising back as a teenager on release and in the time that the series took to reach its conclusion I've lived the majority of my adult life. Now, at last, the ink is dry and the final chapter closed on this grand saga of 40k's origins. But time and commercial content wait for no man. A

My love letter to the Fantasy Exhibition, a game of Warhammer in a glass box and the Warlingham Warhammer Club I recently had the pleasure of visiting Fantasy: Realms of Imagination at the British Library. It's a wonderfully curated and presented exhibition featuring vignettes from everything from Lord of the Rings (of course) to Skyrim, Ursula LeGuin and more. They tell the story of the changing landscapes of fantasy, its roots in the shared mythology of religion and folk ta

The oddity that is Warhammer: The Old World When the return of the Old World was announced, back in 2019, I hadn't even returned to the hobby. In fact, the Old World itself had fallen into decline, died, been broken apart in the fires of rebranding and become the Mortal Realms during my decade long hiatus. So while news of its fate was something of a shock, news of a return certainly peaked my interest. As further details began to dribble through during the intervening four y

Painting as a kid, Airfix and Stormtroopers v Wood Elves I can’t quite remember what miniature was my very first - but It’s between two....

It’s 2020. The gift of Nurgle was at its height, having shut down much of the western world, and I was very, very bored in my...