If I'm not wrong, Henry Cavill was your typical ner chubby kid in school and was made fun of because of that "fat cavill" they called him, or so I remember he said in an interview... so yeah, he also met mockery for his passion like any other nerd like us has had. He's one of us lol
I mean yeah lets be real people do not look like he does all their life. You have to work hard to look as good as him and that is not what most kids in school are going to do when its way easier to just eat junk food and play whatever nerd shit they want to play lol
@@DeeBeeGeek Hey bro, you play a lot of games that I either want to play myself, don't have time to see the full thing or I've no clue about XD These types of videos though? I'm all in. The fact it's also Warhammer and I get to see you go through the same journey I did is amazing.
@@Kakimech89 He might have collected a few armies and the rumour is that he tried to get Bill Murray into the hobby who supposedly thought that the Drukhari looked cool.
@@Kakimech89 Apparently Robin Williams had an Eldar army or at the very least there is a confirmed story of him visiting a store and trying to buy a Eldar display army, the employers saying they are not sure if they can sell it and being scolded by the owner for not selling it to Robin Williams. Robin Williams was really into the anime Evangelion, to the point of including easter eggs in at least two movies he worked on (Robots and One Hour Photo) and I think the Eldar wraith-constructs have a somewhat similar aesthetic to both the robots and the angels from that anime.
Cavill is a huge nerd (I mean that in an affectionate way, because I am also a nerd). He's played the Witcher and loves Warhammer: 40K. There's also a video of him building his PC lol
The redhead interviewer is Felicia Day, The founder of the Geek&Sundry channel. The channel with various Tabletop gaming shows and skits. It also hosted the first season of Critical Role with Felicia being the person who talked them into streaming their sessions. She's also an actress in a fair number of shows as well.
I started in 1989. I worked for GW from 97-09 during that time I spent about 2 years at HQ. I worked during the era when it wasn’t cool. What changed was LOTR. It made geek culture and in particular fantasy much more acceptable.
@@DeeBeeGeekI loved working for GW. It was my passion and after being bullied for being. Nerd working for them made me realise I shouldn’t care about other people’s opinions. I have 100s of stories of the mad stuff I did while in their employ (and only some of them involve drink!) looking back my fondest memories were running games in the stores for the kids. I often found myself standing on a gaming table yelling ‘WAAAAAAGH!’ At the top of my lungs in a store that faced on to a mall. Happy to make a fool of myself cause I didn’t give a sh*t about what passers by thought it was the love of the hobby and my customer’s enjoyment! You asked where WHW is, it’s Willow Road, Lenton Nottingham NG72WS (I didn’t even need to look that up 😅). In the video you shared you can see my old boss who is still the WHW manager 20 years later (larger bald chap walking in front of Henry while in the store). You need to go it’s very worth the trip for the museum alone (and Bugmans a Dwarf themed pub named after a brewing character in Warhammer Fantasy Battle). You need to go to a Warhammer store locally to you to try playing and giving the painting a go. It’s all free but I suspect you’ll end up buying things!
@@geoffbushill5587 That's interesting, didn't know that. I bet LOTR is the reason every tabletop game got so popular within their own franchise at that time like DnD, Baldur's Gate and etc.
@@redhakiim789 you can trace back much of GWs history to LOTR. Remember DnD was based on it and GW owned the exclusive rights to distribute it here in the U.K. No LOTR no GW no 40K. The movies did what the books did in the 60s and 70s, introduce fantasy to a whole new generation. When working at GW my local store (I worked in on and off over the decade I worked for GW) went from a manager and a Full Timer to a manager 2 FT and 6 Key Timers. It was a mad time to be staff back in the early 2000s.
I'm 43 and have been into 40k since 2010 or so. I went to London in 2014 and made the train ride to Nottingham in 2014 to visit Warhammer World. I've indoctrinated my entire band, and we wrote "The Galaxy Burns" this year in homage. I've got the Aquilla on my arm. 40K for life.
Warhammer World is in Nottingham. It’s great; they do tours, regularly host tournaments, they have a store built in and there’s also a pub. Oh, and a life scale space marine statue.
There's a lot of big names / stars that are nerds - Vin Diesel, Jon Favreau, Felicia Day (the redhead interviewer), Matthew Lillard, Joe Manganiello, Deborah Ann Woll, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Terry Crews, Mike Myers, Gerard Way, Vince Vaughn, are all huge D&D gamers. For Warhammer, you've got Robin Williams, Gary Oldman, Trey Parker, Ed Sheeran, Brian May...
I’m honestly surprised by some of these. Vin, Myers, Terry and Sheeran specifically just…they don’t look like they’d care much, do they? Still, that’s pretty cool to know.
Btw, minis are painted with acrylic paint, which is not toxic. Unless you are constantly using spray paint or airbrushing in a enclosed environment there is no need to worry about fumes. Most people just go outside to put primer on their miniatures and paint the rest with a brush. People that use airbrushes a lot tend to have some sort of air exhaust to clean the air. Actually, there are a ton of people that have a tendency to lick the brush and end up ingesting paint, even with regards to that i've never heard of people having issues but I would avoid it just to be sure. Now, if you are 3d printing minis on a resin printer you do have to worry about the fumes a lot as those can be really bad for your health.
About Warhammer World. Gary Oldman went there with his kids too. Cavill is far from the only celebrity that plays/played Warhammer. Robin WIlliams played Eldar and had a collection of Titans. Peter Cushing (Admiral Tarkin from Star Wars) also had a gigantic collection of miniatures, although he was more into historical wargames. Oh, and Warhammer World (and the Games Workshop HQ) is in Nottingham, England.
To be fair to Graham, both Warcraft and StarCraft were originally meant to be Warhammer and 40K games. It’s fun to imagine a world where 40K replaced StarCraft as South Korea’s national pastime.
I highly doubt StarCraft was suppose to be a 40k game. It just doesn't make sense given what happened to Warcraft and how close the 2 where in development.
@@dagonofthedepths Starcraft was indeed supposed to be a 40K licensed game. The Imperium of Man and the Tyranids were repurposed into Terrans and Zerg while the Protoss went in a more original direction but they might have been Eldar in the concept stages. But yeah staff who worked at Blizzard at the time have confirmed this multiple times over the years.
@@dagonofthedepthsI believe it was 40k for the first several years of development but GW backed out for some reason. Never heard about Warcraft being Wh fantasy though
@@krogan3760 Nah that was Warcraft. All that was what Patrick Watt said about Warcraft and he was the head producer. Jist was GW wasn't really happy with the progress and the Blizzard team really wanted an IP of their own to push ahead so the only person that was on board fully was one of the co-founders. That's why I doubt they would do it again for Starcraft.
In regards to the "paint fumes" most people paint with Acrylic water paint where there really isn't any fumes, you could honestly drink the paint and be fine, its mostly water.
8:39 "It's so nice that she's aware of what WH40K is" Dude, that's Felicia friggin' Day. One of the nerdiest women around! She created a whole site dedicated to all things geek and nerdy.
Over the last two years I've seen Henry Cavill with that bloody cup of coffee more than without it and I watched all the Witcher seasons and his films...
Total war games are turn based RTS, you controll a faction from a turn based map, building buildings,armies, managing economy etc. But when those armies fight or your cities are attacked you can fight the battles on a map where you controll every individual unit. Extremely fun if you like strategy games. Also it's acrylic paint, so you could drink it if you want, it's completely safe
@@imperialinquisitormordecai9688 No, RTS stands for Real Time Strategy. So "Turn Based RTS" is an oxymoron. Tabletop Warhammer is a Turn Based Strategy game. So it would be a TBS, although that acronym is almost never used, people just call them turn based strategy games without acronyms.
@@RiskOfBaer It may be an oxymoron but it's also true in a way. The management part of the game, ie moving your army, building up your provinces etc, is turn based, the actual battles themselves are RTS.
@@FrederikSeerupNielsen Yeah, and when a game combines different genres and elements you just describe all of them as concisely as you can if you want to get across what the game is about, we don't have convenient acronyms for every subgenre or combinations of multiple different ones. In case of a total war game,I would say that it is a "strategy game with real time combat and turn based strategic layer". "Turn based RTS" doesn't tell you anything useful at a glance, it's just a contradictory term that invites confusion, especially since "RTS" comes with an implication of both macro and micro layers happening in real time at the same time, and Total War's macro layer is entirely turn based, the real time combat is only about micro and nothing else.
Well he just confused himself because he accidentally made it more complicated than it needed to be (with the -2 factor of when the video came out). When it doesn’t matter what year the video came out, because Henry stated his age. It would only matter if Henry had said “x-years ago”.
Not only he's a fan, he's probably the most outspoken about 40k famous person out there to the point he was behind a show for amazon about 40k...but now the future of it is pretty uncertain because studio meddling with the lore He could be a great Titus
If you want to know who Gregor Eisenhorn is, buy the book Omnibus. It is one of the best reads I've had in recent years and honestly tells a myriad of stories within a single book, all following the extremely badass inquisitor named Gregor eisenhorn.
21:35 Citadel paints are a acrylic based nontoxic paints. They dont produce dangerous fumes or anything like that. Taking a sip wouldnt hurt ya, not that id recommend it.
14:20 Graham's World of Warcraft guess is not too far off; Caville plays a fair bit of that too. There's a clip of him somewhere, where he said that he almost didn't answer Zack Snyder's call about playing Superman, because his guild had a raid scheduled.
There’s a famous interview I think on Conan?? Where he said he initially missed the call for Superman cause he was too busy playing World of Warcraft, bros a legit gamer all around.
Henry alluded to it during one of the video's but basically Warhammer comes in two varieties (maybe overly simplistic), 'Warhammer' (Fantasy) and 'Warhammer 40k' (Sci-Fi) which you have been covering in your recent video's. Enjoying the 40k coverage.
Henry Cavill is great lol and the interviewer in the geeked segment where you thought she knew more than your average interviewer, that’s the actress Felicia Day. She’s awesome, she’s also a huge gamer/nerd like the rest of us lol. I know she sometimes streams as well, I think she had a Baldurs Gate playthrough going on with Gary Whitta.
I like how this video was not just to glaze Henry Cavil but it was also a look into how people outside of the hobby react to someone who is. Good stuff.
He's also a big fan of Warhammer Fantasy as well. And of gaming in general. He likes to play Total War: Warhammer 3 for example. The story how he missed the call from his agent that he landed the role of Superman because he was playing World of Warcraft is hilarious. 7:19 You should have listened to what Freya said a few seconds earlier. She said "here we go". She absolutely knows what he's talking about (more or less) because he spoke often about his hobbies and gaming on set. Her reaction is the "and here we go again for the next 2 hours of Henry talking about gaming" type of reaction. 8:45 Of couse she knows that. That's Felicia Day, a big name in the RPG community. The Geek & Sundry channel is her baby, she created and produced several web series based on games (the Guild and Dragon Age: Redemption), she was big into World of Warcraft and plays a ton of video games herself. She has been titled "the Queen of Nerds" occasionally (even though she doesn't like that - in an interview she once said that she doesn't like a title that makes it seem as if she was elevated above other gamers). Felicia Day knows a lot about everything gaming related, be it in video games or in terms of board games, RPGs and wargames. 14:15 Fun fact about this: Bot Warcraft and Starcraft where originally pitched to Games Workshop as Blizzards attempts on making a licensed Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40 game respectively. So yes, there is actually a connection between Warcraft and Starcraft on the one hand and Warhammer on the other hand.
Warhammer World is the holy land ❤️ it's impossible to visit and not leave completely enthused and excited to built and paint the models you inevitably walk out with
It's funny that in the same survey, Collecting figures was ranked one of the last attractive hobbies by women while painting was ranked one of the most attractive hobbies.
Warhammer World is the name of the head office of Games Workshop located in Nottingham, England. It is open to the public and is currently the home of a full-size statue of Titus
9:15 before anyone goes into this argument of her comment & short video of the interview, I have to defend Freya here, because the short video of the interview makes her look bad & its misleading. Watch the entire interview. Its more of “the little sister making fun the older brother” type of thing. They make fun of eachother alot during this time. Later the interviewer ask the rest of there hoppies & Freya says that all Harry potter stuff she is into. Anya(the other actress) is all about cooking videos & anything with cooking I Think her answear was. So yeah just had to put some context in there. Keep doing what your doing man 👍
The painting side isn't as daunting as people think. They've developed a painting system that they teach on their official channel where you can very quickly put a presentable paint job on an army. There are those, like myself, that take it to a stupid level of painting with airbrushes and such. The "base coat > wash > highlight" method they teach can be picked up quickly.
It's very daunting you are just talented at it. The ones I painted looked like a 5 year old got his moms nail polish. That was the best I could do. But I have no sense of color synergy and my hand shakes like crazy.
Ok this is a suggestion for Deebeegeek but also anyone who doesn't know. There's a band? A TH-cam channel that does Warhammer songs called Endless Taverns. They have amazing songs I'd recommend the songs for the chaos gods but they also have songs that fit the different factions. Anyways they have a a song called Henry's Gavel Its amazing. Lines like: "The fans, They cry, With one accord , Let Henry be our Guiding lord" Man has a fan song basically saying give this man control already lol. I want it popular so much because I want Henry to see so bad lol.
Hey Dee. If you're interested, there's a game called WH40K Rogue Trader. It's a CRPG, which can be hard to get into if you haven't played many of them, but the game is amazing. Lots of lore and awesome characters to meet with plenty of replay ability. Just thought I'd let you know. 👌
Wow he started in 40k about the exact same time as me, though I'm about 10 years older than him. I was a tank crewman then and as such, the guys in my unit and I naturally gravitated to this game. Man, I love this guy. So glad he's in charge of making the show.
20:29 I have a daemon prince with wings that I add a head to its trophy rack of my opponents choosing (from their extra bits) if it survives to the end of a match I win. It's only a friendly agreement type of thing
Timestamp of personal 40k geek out: 2:23 He painted a custodian helmet! :😀 8:03 Necrons? Is he rolling with Sezerack the Silent King or Immotek the Stormlord or is he just rolling with a Minor Necron Character like Nemasor Zandrak the crazy one? 9:55 If you told if I were given complete freedom to play a Character in 40k, it would mostly likely be Alparius or the Changling(a Tzeentchian shapshifting demon). 10:58 Lol he assumed that he be apart of the Ordo Hereticus branch of the Inquisition. 12:22 Cool a replica of the "Will of Eternity" :'( I'm sad. *THE PLANET BROKE BEFORE THE GUARD* 18:04 THERE IT IS AGAIN, A HELMENT OF THE Ten Thousand! 23:49 Sister of Battle/Adepta Sorroritas in the background! 24:11 Imperial Reaver Titan behind glass.
The Total War : Warhammer series is extremely good. It's a mix between a top down world domination strategy like a Crusader Kings (but very less complex than CK) and real time military battles
Cavill is a bit of a hero to me, he's made a point of standing up for fans and fighting to protect source material, all on top of being a great actor and an incredibly handsome man.
So sad the creator/writers of the show witcher, the ones who changed the source material, started a campaign of lies against him. Dude only wanted what every fan of the books wanted, being faithful to the material. I can't believe these people think themselves better than the dude who wrote the books, and the result is visible, the show sucked, coulnd't go beyond first half of season 2
@@kageshira They did it because the goal was never to make a show for the fans, it was to make a show for themselves, and use it as a vehicle to push their own views. It's honestly sickening, every piece of entertainment that puts activists in charge of it ends up the same way.
The Total War games are absolutely worth a try. Its THE warhammer fantasy game to play, it covers pretty much the whole world and all its notable characters, races and their factions. The trailers for that game are cinema quality and would make great react content and by far the best visual representation of the setting. I'd start with the announce trailers for each game (Total War Warhammer 1,2 and 3) then watch the ones for each of the factions (Theres A LOT)
Warhammer World is in Lenton, Nottingham. I have a friend who used to work for GW HQ. He was there when Henry visited but didn't get to meet him, he's a big fan of Henry so I imagine that was a real gut punch! Warhammer World is certainly worth a visit. There's an awesome museum with some incredible displays, a VERY well stocked store, a gaming hall made to look like a medieval castle courtyard and a real working pub called "Bugmans" (named and themed after a canon Dwarf brewer called Josef Bugman). Very cool place. I worked for the company for a while and a group of us actually got a tour of the studio once, it was amazing seeing stuff being worked on that at the time hadn't yet been released.
I am an American, and grew up a rural one at that, which had a single comics/games store. I don't know how I got so lucky, but at 12 years old in 1993 I also got into Warhammer and because of Space Marine 2, I now have my 19 year old bleeding my pockets dry for that sweet Games Workshop plastic! Enjoy this journey!
Its surprising how therapeutic the hobby can be. You can pick up a pack of 3 minis with some paints and a brush for not that much so give it a try at some point. The stores in the UK are pretty good and they will often let you paint a free mini in the shop
Games Workshop is based in Nottingham, and their offices and production is still there. Warhammer World is the customer facing side at Nottingham, with a store, large playing space and a bar, and is stacked with displays and old minis and the designers are wandering round. Worth a visit.
The Ork math on point hahaha. On a side note, he has been a fan as long time as myself which is mostly 2nd edition 40k (1st was "Rogue Trader" and it did not have some of the most importants part of the lore yet)
Im 42, i started getting into 40k back in 1991. I have pretty much every white dwarf magazine from 93 to now lol. Going to the local Games workshop as a kid with my school friends were legendary times, you could stay there all day, paint, play the game chill and talk to the staff who also loved the hobby. Its crazy to think back then all kinds of hobbys were looked down apon from warhammer to just gaming in general. It's nice things have changed now but there was something special about the hobby when not many people knew about it, felt more pure , hardcore if you will, same with gaming. Now games are soo universal its lost a bit of its magic.
In Graham's defence, I'm pretty sure Henry is into WoW as well. I think he said he missed the call for the Superman part because he was playing a session on that 😅
The fact that you're just finding this out now is hilarious 🤣. In all seriousness he is pretty serious about the hobby and his paint job for his custodes is pretty good.
Hi, been a 40K collector since 2008 with my first box Assault on Black Reach, and despite being a fan of it for now 16years, I've yet to look deeper into the lore than a few lore videos, and still have not played any game, not too good with people unfortunatly, but yeah, I still collect, assemble, and paint them, and while i'm FAR from being even ok at painting, it's such a relaxing time to do it.
Did you know before the space marines the Emperor had another army called the thunder warriors that he created but eventually had them destroyed by the original space marines called the dark angels.
he did have conversations with amazon to make a warhammer show but they wanted to change alot of the lore and cavill wasnt down with that so the rumor is he's not part of it anymore.
Henry was born in 83 so he was 10 in 93, much easier math. That's the year 2nd Edition came out. So he either got in at the end of Rogue Trader (40k 1e) or the start of 2e.
If someone talks trash about WH40K and that it's childish and like playing with toys, I always ask them what they think about chess. They normally call it a sophisticated way to pass your time. Well, WH40K or any other TTRPG is basically chess with more models, more rules, more opportunities and a bigger play board. If WH40K is for kids, then chess is for toddlers.
Henry Cavill not just *wants* to make live action Warhammer 40k but he was *approached* by Games Workshop and was *asked to produce* live action Warhammer 40k movie or series. Under roof of Amazon. Everyone was hugely praising this because Henry is not just random dude but man who is highly passionate about the setting. But there a problem appeared: Amazon started forcing "wоke agenda" (how they usually do) and they did it via forcing Games Workshop to retcon the lore. And while retcons on Warhammer were pretty usual but they mostly happened on early stages while lore was establishing. And now GW retconed some crucial parts of the lore, main one being *"Female Custodes".* And Henry stood against it. And there was looong process or battle of Henry against GW and Amazon executives. And basically the Warhammer show gets canceled. Henry (and GW) suggested Sisters of Battle to Amazon as "badass strong women" but Amazon denied them because "too religious". Also Amazon is upset about Warhammer 40k being "too intolerate against other people" which is absurd because it's the main feature. Warhammer is absurdly raсist and zealous on purpose. And Amazon be like: "Your Grimdark is too grim and dark. We need it uplifted and light".
Is this actually true? It's not happening anymore? It's so unfortunate because to do 40k justice there needs to be a pretty big budget behind it so you pretty much need a big studio. And all of the big studios are full of these woke weirdos who need to see their own real life opinions infused in there. God I hate these people.
@@itotallycare Unfortunately it seems unlikely we're getting any 40K series with Henry for a while. The studio has until December to present a concept for the series, which will probably not happen, sadly.
@@itotallycare There is a chance that Henry&WH community would win but it's a "money talk", not "common sense talk". Big bosses for some reason are convinced that only "super inclusive agenda" can gather more masses to bring them money. There more to this topic of course, but in general it feels like it. Which is also a bit absurd because a lot of people across the world hates this woke agenda and feel these activists and "effective managers" only interfere with narrative media (movies, games, books, etc) while normal casual people don't really need to see it to understand: "Yeah, there are different people in the world, we should be more supportive sometimes but not to our own detriment".
Wow, everything you just said is bullshit. I'm amazed. Also it's hilarious how you idiots call custodes a "crucial part of the lore" when they only became a playable army in 7th edition. Did you get equally upset when Games Workshop retconned the custodes so they weren't guarding the Emperor naked?
Games Workshop own paints are acrylic, so there really isn't much in the way of harmful fumes associated with them, and the same is true of many modelling paints for use on plastics. The exception is spray paints, but you should only ever use those in an extremely well ventilated area or outdoors.
One of the most popular newbie questions is whether you have to give your miniatures away if you lost a game. It's the second dumbest question I hear right after "what are you smoking in your tobacco pipe" when people see me smoking a pipe outdoors. Still don't understand why people think of tabletop games that way, it's not gambling or whatever. Born in 1987, started playing in ~2005-2006, about a year after the first Dawn of War came out on PC. Yes, Games Workshop has seen better days, but I'm still very pleased with the hobby, it's the greatest passion in my life. It's crazy how time and money consuming it is though.
Highly recommend the new fan film. "The awakening" on Gabriel Christtiane's youtube channel. Dark Angels vs Necrons. Its one of the best 40K fan films i've ever seen.
If I'm not wrong, Henry Cavill was your typical ner chubby kid in school and was made fun of because of that "fat cavill" they called him, or so I remember he said in an interview... so yeah, he also met mockery for his passion like any other nerd like us has had. He's one of us lol
Imagine bullying that chubby kid then growing up to see him obtain the body of an Olympian while still being icon of nerds.
He's probably also a quiet kid too 😂
He's a sci-fi nerd, he is in squadron 42 as well
He almost missed his big break because he was raiding in WoW.
I mean yeah lets be real people do not look like he does all their life. You have to work hard to look as good as him and that is not what most kids in school are going to do when its way easier to just eat junk food and play whatever nerd shit they want to play lol
@@kayden2119 fact and true, looking good is hard work thats why cosmetic and fitness are one of the biggest industry on earth.
"Henry Cavill likes Warhammer!?" - Oh brother, that's one hell of an understatement 🤣🤣🤣
Great to see me bro in my comment section so frequently 😊
@@DeeBeeGeek Hey bro, you play a lot of games that I either want to play myself, don't have time to see the full thing or I've no clue about XD
These types of videos though? I'm all in. The fact it's also Warhammer and I get to see you go through the same journey I did is amazing.
Many of the best actors are weird, but lovable introverted nerds. Robin Williams was into 40k as well. RIP
@@Sidraughen Funnily enough didn't Williams ALSO had a hidden interest in Warhammer? I saw he had some Knights or Titans
@@Kakimech89 He might have collected a few armies and the rumour is that he tried to get Bill Murray into the hobby who supposedly thought that the Drukhari looked cool.
@@John-kc4cg Bill Murray sounds like a Drukhari player. 🗿
@@Kakimech89 Apparently Robin Williams had an Eldar army or at the very least there is a confirmed story of him visiting a store and trying to buy a Eldar display army, the employers saying they are not sure if they can sell it and being scolded by the owner for not selling it to Robin Williams.
Robin Williams was really into the anime Evangelion, to the point of including easter eggs in at least two movies he worked on (Robots and One Hour Photo) and I think the Eldar wraith-constructs have a somewhat similar aesthetic to both the robots and the angels from that anime.
@@ChaoticTabrisrest in peace to that man. He deserves to forever be remembered.
Cavill is a huge nerd (I mean that in an affectionate way, because I am also a nerd). He's played the Witcher and loves Warhammer: 40K. There's also a video of him building his PC lol
iirc playing the Witcher 3 actually got him into the books too, so he went all the way with Witcher haha
@@swiftninja91 a BEEFY nerd at that
I heard in an interview with him, that he almost missed his audition for Superman because he was playing World of Warcraft.
@@HereBeDragonsYT yeah he was MID raid and ignored the call. Luckily his agent told him to call back XD.
The redhead interviewer is Felicia Day,
The founder of the Geek&Sundry channel. The channel with various Tabletop gaming shows and skits. It also hosted the first season of Critical Role with Felicia being the person who talked them into streaming their sessions. She's also an actress in a fair number of shows as well.
Do You Wanna Date My Avatar :)
Also has worked as a voice actress in Dragon Age II and Fallout New Vegas. She is as nerd as it gets.
She's an absolute legend.
Right! She was also in Supernatural!
Felicia ist the queen of nerds.
8:10 the other guy is jaskier actor, i love henry réaction like wait we have work for a year and just now i realise you are a necron player, brother
"Should we ? ..."
"Yes !"
A party then was planned !
I started in 1989. I worked for GW from 97-09 during that time I spent about 2 years at HQ. I worked during the era when it wasn’t cool. What changed was LOTR. It made geek culture and in particular fantasy much more acceptable.
Wow!! Thanks for sharing that! And thanks for all the work you’ve done!
@@DeeBeeGeekI loved working for GW. It was my passion and after being bullied for being. Nerd working for them made me realise I shouldn’t care about other people’s opinions. I have 100s of stories of the mad stuff I did while in their employ (and only some of them involve drink!) looking back my fondest memories were running games in the stores for the kids. I often found myself standing on a gaming table yelling ‘WAAAAAAGH!’ At the top of my lungs in a store that faced on to a mall. Happy to make a fool of myself cause I didn’t give a sh*t about what passers by thought it was the love of the hobby and my customer’s enjoyment!
You asked where WHW is, it’s Willow Road, Lenton Nottingham NG72WS (I didn’t even need to look that up 😅). In the video you shared you can see my old boss who is still the WHW manager 20 years later (larger bald chap walking in front of Henry while in the store).
You need to go it’s very worth the trip for the museum alone (and Bugmans a Dwarf themed pub named after a brewing character in Warhammer Fantasy Battle). You need to go to a Warhammer store locally to you to try playing and giving the painting a go. It’s all free but I suspect you’ll end up buying things!
Totally true. Lotr made fantasy mainstream. Then marvel being huge made comic book fandom not only nerdy. Things have changed a lot.
@@geoffbushill5587 That's interesting, didn't know that. I bet LOTR is the reason every tabletop game got so popular within their own franchise at that time like DnD, Baldur's Gate and etc.
@@redhakiim789 you can trace back much of GWs history to LOTR. Remember DnD was based on it and GW owned the exclusive rights to distribute it here in the U.K. No LOTR no GW no 40K. The movies did what the books did in the 60s and 70s, introduce fantasy to a whole new generation. When working at GW my local store (I worked in on and off over the decade I worked for GW) went from a manager and a Full Timer to a manager 2 FT and 6 Key Timers. It was a mad time to be staff back in the early 2000s.
I'm 43 and have been into 40k since 2010 or so. I went to London in 2014 and made the train ride to Nottingham in 2014 to visit Warhammer World. I've indoctrinated my entire band, and we wrote "The Galaxy Burns" this year in homage. I've got the Aquilla on my arm. 40K for life.
7:54 the way they just planned a game together with so few words.
Warhammer World is in Nottingham. It’s great; they do tours, regularly host tournaments, they have a store built in and there’s also a pub. Oh, and a life scale space marine statue.
7:57 I love how they immediately made a silent agreement to play a game of 40k together rofl
Henry Cavill almost missed his casting call for Superman because he was raiding in WoW. Truly one of us.
The best part of Warhammer 40k is sitting around with friends, drinking, smoking and laughing at someone's (normally mine...) dice rolls.
There's a lot of big names / stars that are nerds - Vin Diesel, Jon Favreau, Felicia Day (the redhead interviewer), Matthew Lillard, Joe Manganiello, Deborah Ann Woll, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Terry Crews, Mike Myers, Gerard Way, Vince Vaughn, are all huge D&D gamers.
For Warhammer, you've got Robin Williams, Gary Oldman, Trey Parker, Ed Sheeran, Brian May...
I’m honestly surprised by some of these. Vin, Myers, Terry and Sheeran specifically just…they don’t look like they’d care much, do they? Still, that’s pretty cool to know.
Felicia Day is the nerd queen. She definitely knows what Warhammer is.
Btw, minis are painted with acrylic paint, which is not toxic. Unless you are constantly using spray paint or airbrushing in a enclosed environment there is no need to worry about fumes. Most people just go outside to put primer on their miniatures and paint the rest with a brush. People that use airbrushes a lot tend to have some sort of air exhaust to clean the air.
Actually, there are a ton of people that have a tendency to lick the brush and end up ingesting paint, even with regards to that i've never heard of people having issues but I would avoid it just to be sure.
Now, if you are 3d printing minis on a resin printer you do have to worry about the fumes a lot as those can be really bad for your health.
About Warhammer World. Gary Oldman went there with his kids too. Cavill is far from the only celebrity that plays/played Warhammer. Robin WIlliams played Eldar and had a collection of Titans. Peter Cushing (Admiral Tarkin from Star Wars) also had a gigantic collection of miniatures, although he was more into historical wargames.
Oh, and Warhammer World (and the Games Workshop HQ) is in Nottingham, England.
To be fair to Graham, both Warcraft and StarCraft were originally meant to be Warhammer and 40K games. It’s fun to imagine a world where 40K replaced StarCraft as South Korea’s national pastime.
I highly doubt StarCraft was suppose to be a 40k game. It just doesn't make sense given what happened to Warcraft and how close the 2 where in development.
@@dagonofthedepths look it up
@@dagonofthedepths Starcraft was indeed supposed to be a 40K licensed game. The Imperium of Man and the Tyranids were repurposed into Terrans and Zerg while the Protoss went in a more original direction but they might have been Eldar in the concept stages. But yeah staff who worked at Blizzard at the time have confirmed this multiple times over the years.
@@dagonofthedepthsI believe it was 40k for the first several years of development but GW backed out for some reason. Never heard about Warcraft being Wh fantasy though
@@krogan3760 Nah that was Warcraft. All that was what Patrick Watt said about Warcraft and he was the head producer. Jist was GW wasn't really happy with the progress and the Blizzard team really wanted an IP of their own to push ahead so the only person that was on board fully was one of the co-founders. That's why I doubt they would do it again for Starcraft.
In regards to the "paint fumes" most people paint with Acrylic water paint where there really isn't any fumes, you could honestly drink the paint and be fine, its mostly water.
Thank goodness for that, signed - a brush licker 😂
warhammer world is a place you can visit in Nottingham, highly recommend it
8:39 "It's so nice that she's aware of what WH40K is"
Dude, that's Felicia friggin' Day. One of the nerdiest women around! She created a whole site dedicated to all things geek and nerdy.
Over the last two years I've seen Henry Cavill with that bloody cup of coffee more than without it and I watched all the Witcher seasons and his films...
Total war games are turn based RTS, you controll a faction from a turn based map, building buildings,armies, managing economy etc. But when those armies fight or your cities are attacked you can fight the battles on a map where you controll every individual unit. Extremely fun if you like strategy games.
Also it's acrylic paint, so you could drink it if you want, it's completely safe
"Turn based RTS"
@@SorchaSublimeyeah, That's what they are or what?
@@imperialinquisitormordecai9688 No, RTS stands for Real Time Strategy. So "Turn Based RTS" is an oxymoron.
Tabletop Warhammer is a Turn Based Strategy game. So it would be a TBS, although that acronym is almost never used, people just call them turn based strategy games without acronyms.
@@RiskOfBaer It may be an oxymoron but it's also true in a way. The management part of the game, ie moving your army, building up your provinces etc, is turn based, the actual battles themselves are RTS.
@@FrederikSeerupNielsen Yeah, and when a game combines different genres and elements you just describe all of them as concisely as you can if you want to get across what the game is about, we don't have convenient acronyms for every subgenre or combinations of multiple different ones.
In case of a total war game,I would say that it is a "strategy game with real time combat and turn based strategic layer". "Turn based RTS" doesn't tell you anything useful at a glance, it's just a contradictory term that invites confusion, especially since "RTS" comes with an implication of both macro and micro layers happening in real time at the same time, and Total War's macro layer is entirely turn based, the real time combat is only about micro and nothing else.
I alwasy thought Anya and Freya are thinking is "oh no, he's gonna talk about warhammer again"
He has been a fan of Warhammer longer than I've been alive.
Dee I hate to say that 39-10 is 29, so the answer is 31, 1993 4:46
Well he just confused himself because he accidentally made it more complicated than it needed to be (with the -2 factor of when the video came out). When it doesn’t matter what year the video came out, because Henry stated his age. It would only matter if Henry had said “x-years ago”.
Straight away, first time for me wacthing him being involved with 40k.
Right off the bat, legit my mom loved Henry calvill ever since she watched Man of Steel.
She teenage jelly of lowis.
Not only he's a fan, he's probably the most outspoken about 40k famous person out there to the point he was behind a show for amazon about 40k...but now the future of it is pretty uncertain because studio meddling with the lore
He could be a great Titus
If you want to know who Gregor Eisenhorn is, buy the book Omnibus. It is one of the best reads I've had in recent years and honestly tells a myriad of stories within a single book, all following the extremely badass inquisitor named Gregor eisenhorn.
Great intro for a reader who is new to the universe as well
That math sequence was epic
21:35 Citadel paints are a acrylic based nontoxic paints. They dont produce dangerous fumes or anything like that. Taking a sip wouldnt hurt ya, not that id recommend it.
Been into warhammer since 1998 or so now my wife and kids enjoy it aswell. Warhammer is awesome
Warhammer started in 1987 man. 37 years. I first got into it in that year.
The only way for Cavill to play many characters in 40k. He you have have to be Alpharius. Then he can play everyone in that legion! 😂
14:20 Graham's World of Warcraft guess is not too far off; Caville plays a fair bit of that too. There's a clip of him somewhere, where he said that he almost didn't answer Zack Snyder's call about playing Superman, because his guild had a raid scheduled.
There’s a famous interview I think on Conan?? Where he said he initially missed the call for Superman cause he was too busy playing World of Warcraft, bros a legit gamer all around.
Henry is like a 10" golden dude saying he's not a God, not sure why people are so amazed by him saying this stuff 🔥
Henry alluded to it during one of the video's but basically Warhammer comes in two varieties (maybe overly simplistic), 'Warhammer' (Fantasy) and 'Warhammer 40k' (Sci-Fi) which you have been covering in your recent video's. Enjoying the 40k coverage.
Henry Cavill is great lol and the interviewer in the geeked segment where you thought she knew more than your average interviewer, that’s the actress Felicia Day. She’s awesome, she’s also a huge gamer/nerd like the rest of us lol. I know she sometimes streams as well, I think she had a Baldurs Gate playthrough going on with Gary Whitta.
I like how this video was not just to glaze Henry Cavil but it was also a look into how people outside of the hobby react to someone who is. Good stuff.
He's also a big fan of Warhammer Fantasy as well. And of gaming in general. He likes to play Total War: Warhammer 3 for example.
The story how he missed the call from his agent that he landed the role of Superman because he was playing World of Warcraft is hilarious.
7:19 You should have listened to what Freya said a few seconds earlier. She said "here we go". She absolutely knows what he's talking about (more or less) because he spoke often about his hobbies and gaming on set. Her reaction is the "and here we go again for the next 2 hours of Henry talking about gaming" type of reaction.
8:45 Of couse she knows that. That's Felicia Day, a big name in the RPG community. The Geek & Sundry channel is her baby, she created and produced several web series based on games (the Guild and Dragon Age: Redemption), she was big into World of Warcraft and plays a ton of video games herself. She has been titled "the Queen of Nerds" occasionally (even though she doesn't like that - in an interview she once said that she doesn't like a title that makes it seem as if she was elevated above other gamers). Felicia Day knows a lot about everything gaming related, be it in video games or in terms of board games, RPGs and wargames.
14:15 Fun fact about this: Bot Warcraft and Starcraft where originally pitched to Games Workshop as Blizzards attempts on making a licensed Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40 game respectively. So yes, there is actually a connection between Warcraft and Starcraft on the one hand and Warhammer on the other hand.
Warhammer World is the holy land ❤️ it's impossible to visit and not leave completely enthused and excited to built and paint the models you inevitably walk out with
Henry Cavil as the Emperor durring the Horus Herresy or maybe Rogal Dorn
It's funny that in the same survey, Collecting figures was ranked one of the last attractive hobbies by women while painting was ranked one of the most attractive hobbies.
Warhammer World is the name of the head office of Games Workshop located in Nottingham, England. It is open to the public and is currently the home of a full-size statue of Titus
Fun fact, Henry Caville is in charge of the upcoming Warhammer TV series. And I believe he will be acting inside the series as well.
9:15 before anyone goes into this argument of her comment & short video of the interview, I have to defend Freya here, because the short video of the interview makes her look bad & its misleading. Watch the entire interview. Its more of “the little sister making fun the older brother” type of thing. They make fun of eachother alot during this time. Later the interviewer ask the rest of there hoppies & Freya says that all Harry potter stuff she is into. Anya(the other actress) is all about cooking videos & anything with cooking I Think her answear was.
So yeah just had to put some context in there.
Keep doing what your doing man 👍
Ohh I didn’t know that but thank you for the context and clarification! 😊
The painting side isn't as daunting as people think. They've developed a painting system that they teach on their official channel where you can very quickly put a presentable paint job on an army. There are those, like myself, that take it to a stupid level of painting with airbrushes and such. The "base coat > wash > highlight" method they teach can be picked up quickly.
I painted my first in 1991. Haven't painted any since the 90s. I bet you're awesome at it. I wasn't great.
It's very daunting you are just talented at it. The ones I painted looked like a 5 year old got his moms nail polish. That was the best I could do. But I have no sense of color synergy and my hand shakes like crazy.
Warhammer 40k Text To Speech is a great place to start with
Ok this is a suggestion for Deebeegeek but also anyone who doesn't know.
There's a band? A TH-cam channel that does Warhammer songs called Endless Taverns.
They have amazing songs I'd recommend the songs for the chaos gods but they also have songs that fit the different factions.
Anyways they have a a song called Henry's Gavel Its amazing.
Lines like:
"The fans, They cry, With one accord , Let Henry be our Guiding lord"
Man has a fan song basically saying give this man control already lol.
I want it popular so much because I want Henry to see so bad lol.
Footage at end is warhammer world with games workshop HQ open area for community.
Hey Dee. If you're interested, there's a game called WH40K Rogue Trader. It's a CRPG, which can be hard to get into if you haven't played many of them, but the game is amazing. Lots of lore and awesome characters to meet with plenty of replay ability. Just thought I'd let you know. 👌
There's a video from about 3 years ago of Henry buildling his gaming PC for the first time and its the most heartwhelming thing ever
10:23 short answer: they didn't. Its in the works
That bad maths was hilarous
When Bricky makes sad faces about Cadia, it’s because Abbadon threw a Blackstone fortress at Cadia and destroyed it.
Wow he started in 40k about the exact same time as me, though I'm about 10 years older than him. I was a tank crewman then and as such, the guys in my unit and I naturally gravitated to this game. Man, I love this guy. So glad he's in charge of making the show.
20:29 I have a daemon prince with wings that I add a head to its trophy rack of my opponents choosing (from their extra bits) if it survives to the end of a match I win. It's only a friendly agreement type of thing
Ave Dominus! Ave Dominus Henry's Cavill!
Timestamp of personal 40k geek out:
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He painted a custodian helmet! :😀
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Necrons? Is he rolling with Sezerack the Silent King or Immotek the Stormlord or is he just rolling with a Minor Necron Character like Nemasor Zandrak the crazy one?
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If you told if I were given complete freedom to play a Character in 40k, it would mostly likely be Alparius or the Changling(a Tzeentchian shapshifting demon).
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Lol he assumed that he be apart of the Ordo Hereticus branch of the Inquisition.
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Cool a replica of the "Will of Eternity" :'(
I'm sad. *THE PLANET BROKE BEFORE THE GUARD*
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THERE IT IS AGAIN, A HELMENT OF THE Ten Thousand!
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Sister of Battle/Adepta Sorroritas in the background!
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Imperial Reaver Titan behind glass.
The Total War : Warhammer series is extremely good. It's a mix between a top down world domination strategy like a Crusader Kings (but very less complex than CK) and real time military battles
Cavill is a bit of a hero to me, he's made a point of standing up for fans and fighting to protect source material, all on top of being a great actor and an incredibly handsome man.
So sad the creator/writers of the show witcher, the ones who changed the source material, started a campaign of lies against him. Dude only wanted what every fan of the books wanted, being faithful to the material. I can't believe these people think themselves better than the dude who wrote the books, and the result is visible, the show sucked, coulnd't go beyond first half of season 2
@@kageshira They did it because the goal was never to make a show for the fans, it was to make a show for themselves, and use it as a vehicle to push their own views. It's honestly sickening, every piece of entertainment that puts activists in charge of it ends up the same way.
Regarding the fumes, the colours are waterbased acrylics, so little to none odour.
Just the primer you put on first
4:59 I laughed when I saw the look of realisation that math was done wrong.
The Total War games are absolutely worth a try. Its THE warhammer fantasy game to play, it covers pretty much the whole world and all its notable characters, races and their factions. The trailers for that game are cinema quality and would make great react content and by far the best visual representation of the setting. I'd start with the announce trailers for each game (Total War Warhammer 1,2 and 3) then watch the ones for each of the factions (Theres A LOT)
Robin Williams was another big Warhammer fan
Warhammer World is in Lenton, Nottingham. I have a friend who used to work for GW HQ. He was there when Henry visited but didn't get to meet him, he's a big fan of Henry so I imagine that was a real gut punch! Warhammer World is certainly worth a visit. There's an awesome museum with some incredible displays, a VERY well stocked store, a gaming hall made to look like a medieval castle courtyard and a real working pub called "Bugmans" (named and themed after a canon Dwarf brewer called Josef Bugman). Very cool place. I worked for the company for a while and a group of us actually got a tour of the studio once, it was amazing seeing stuff being worked on that at the time hadn't yet been released.
I am an American, and grew up a rural one at that, which had a single comics/games store. I don't know how I got so lucky, but at 12 years old in 1993 I also got into Warhammer and because of Space Marine 2, I now have my 19 year old bleeding my pockets dry for that sweet Games Workshop plastic! Enjoy this journey!
Its surprising how therapeutic the hobby can be. You can pick up a pack of 3 minis with some paints and a brush for not that much so give it a try at some point. The stores in the UK are pretty good and they will often let you paint a free mini in the shop
Games Workshop is based in Nottingham, and their offices and production is still there. Warhammer World is the customer facing side at Nottingham, with a store, large playing space and a bar, and is stacked with displays and old minis and the designers are wandering round. Worth a visit.
The Ork math on point hahaha. On a side note, he has been a fan as long time as myself which is mostly 2nd edition 40k (1st was "Rogue Trader" and it did not have some of the most importants part of the lore yet)
Dan Abnett's Eisenhorn omnibus is my #1 recommendation to people wanting to read about the 40k universe.
Im 42, i started getting into 40k back in 1991. I have pretty much every white dwarf magazine from 93 to now lol. Going to the local Games workshop as a kid with my school friends were legendary times, you could stay there all day, paint, play the game chill and talk to the staff who also loved the hobby. Its crazy to think back then all kinds of hobbys were looked down apon from warhammer to just gaming in general. It's nice things have changed now but there was something special about the hobby when not many people knew about it, felt more pure , hardcore if you will, same with gaming. Now games are soo universal its lost a bit of its magic.
Truth be told..... I never new about warhammer before Henrey mentioned it. I'm very new to this but i'm love with the world, the lore everything
In Graham's defence, I'm pretty sure Henry is into WoW as well. I think he said he missed the call for the Superman part because he was playing a session on that 😅
Warhammer World is in Nottingham, its a fantastic day out, well worth the trip.
The fact that you're just finding this out now is hilarious 🤣. In all seriousness he is pretty serious about the hobby and his paint job for his custodes is pretty good.
Warhammer World is in Nottingham and it is 100% worth the visit even if you're not into the collecting and table top battling side of it all.
I've been a fan of Warhammer (fantasy first, later 40k and Aos) since 1996, when I was 6 years old. I can't imagine not loving this franchise
Hi, been a 40K collector since 2008 with my first box Assault on Black Reach, and despite being a fan of it for now 16years, I've yet to look deeper into the lore than a few lore videos, and still have not played any game, not too good with people unfortunatly, but yeah, I still collect, assemble, and paint them, and while i'm FAR from being even ok at painting, it's such a relaxing time to do it.
The interviwer/host on the Geeked thing is actually a VA for a character named Zojja in the MMORPG Guild Wars 2 if i'm not mistaken.
Did you know before the space marines the Emperor had another army called the thunder warriors that he created but eventually had them destroyed by the original space marines called the dark angels.
He’s more than just, a 40k fan.
HE’S A BIG FU%KING NERD
and that’s why he’s awesome.
It's not the paint fumes that get ya. It's that sweet sweet GW plastic glue 🤌
he did have conversations with amazon to make a warhammer show but they wanted to change alot of the lore and cavill wasnt down with that so the rumor is he's not part of it anymore.
It would have been fantastic to be at warhammer world either working or a visitor that day and get to meet Henry while he was there.
Henry was born in 83 so he was 10 in 93, much easier math. That's the year 2nd Edition came out. So he either got in at the end of Rogue Trader (40k 1e) or the start of 2e.
If someone talks trash about WH40K and that it's childish and like playing with toys, I always ask them what they think about chess. They normally call it a sophisticated way to pass your time. Well, WH40K or any other TTRPG is basically chess with more models, more rules, more opportunities and a bigger play board. If WH40K is for kids, then chess is for toddlers.
39 - two decades = 2003
Henry Cavill not just *wants* to make live action Warhammer 40k but he was *approached* by Games Workshop and was *asked to produce* live action Warhammer 40k movie or series. Under roof of Amazon.
Everyone was hugely praising this because Henry is not just random dude but man who is highly passionate about the setting.
But there a problem appeared: Amazon started forcing "wоke agenda" (how they usually do) and they did it via forcing Games Workshop to retcon the lore.
And while retcons on Warhammer were pretty usual but they mostly happened on early stages while lore was establishing.
And now GW retconed some crucial parts of the lore, main one being *"Female Custodes".*
And Henry stood against it. And there was looong process or battle of Henry against GW and Amazon executives. And basically the Warhammer show gets canceled.
Henry (and GW) suggested Sisters of Battle to Amazon as "badass strong women" but Amazon denied them because "too religious".
Also Amazon is upset about Warhammer 40k being "too intolerate against other people" which is absurd because it's the main feature. Warhammer is absurdly raсist and zealous on purpose.
And Amazon be like: "Your Grimdark is too grim and dark. We need it uplifted and light".
Is this actually true? It's not happening anymore?
It's so unfortunate because to do 40k justice there needs to be a pretty big budget behind it so you pretty much need a big studio. And all of the big studios are full of these woke weirdos who need to see their own real life opinions infused in there. God I hate these people.
@@itotallycare Unfortunately it seems unlikely we're getting any 40K series with Henry for a while. The studio has until December to present a concept for the series, which will probably not happen, sadly.
@@itotallycare There is a chance that Henry&WH community would win but it's a "money talk", not "common sense talk".
Big bosses for some reason are convinced that only "super inclusive agenda" can gather more masses to bring them money. There more to this topic of course, but in general it feels like it.
Which is also a bit absurd because a lot of people across the world hates this woke agenda and feel these activists and "effective managers" only interfere with narrative media (movies, games, books, etc) while normal casual people don't really need to see it to understand: "Yeah, there are different people in the world, we should be more supportive sometimes but not to our own detriment".
Wow, everything you just said is bullshit. I'm amazed. Also it's hilarious how you idiots call custodes a "crucial part of the lore" when they only became a playable army in 7th edition. Did you get equally upset when Games Workshop retconned the custodes so they weren't guarding the Emperor naked?
God the paint fumes. Best inhaled through air brush
The Total War Warhammer games have a bunch of great cinematics of all the factions and characters. A great watch.
Games Workshop own paints are acrylic, so there really isn't much in the way of harmful fumes associated with them, and the same is true of many modelling paints for use on plastics. The exception is spray paints, but you should only ever use those in an extremely well ventilated area or outdoors.
29 years bro. Might want to check the math brain. Probably rotting by now.
One of the most popular newbie questions is whether you have to give your miniatures away if you lost a game. It's the second dumbest question I hear right after "what are you smoking in your tobacco pipe" when people see me smoking a pipe outdoors. Still don't understand why people think of tabletop games that way, it's not gambling or whatever.
Born in 1987, started playing in ~2005-2006, about a year after the first Dawn of War came out on PC. Yes, Games Workshop has seen better days, but I'm still very pleased with the hobby, it's the greatest passion in my life. It's crazy how time and money consuming it is though.
Henry Cavill is an absolute unit. A perfect specimen. He could play The Emperor or a Primarch EASY
Not surprised that Warhammer took of in the UK. Its basically the modern version of the old battlefield simulation with tin soldiers.
"Nerd" was something before The Big Bang Theory, and is something different now (thankfully). The MCU and emergence of ESports are other factors.
Highly recommend the new fan film. "The awakening" on Gabriel Christtiane's youtube channel.
Dark Angels vs Necrons. Its one of the best 40K fan films i've ever seen.