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Warhammer 40,000 (informally known as "Warhammer 40K") is a tabletop miniature wargame, produced by the British gaming company Games Workshop. The first edition of the game was published in 1987. The man responsible for creating the original rules set and the Warhammer 40,000 gameworld was game designer Rick Priestley. Later developments of the game are the work of editor Andy Chambers. The imagery and "look and feel" of the 40K world are derived from the works of Games Workshop Art Director John Blanche and designer Jes Goodwin. Play centers around 28mm scale (approximately 1:65) miniature figurines which represent soldiers, creatures and vehicles of war. The setting is science fiction ( military science fiction genre).
Warhammer 40K is the science fiction companion to its sibling game, Warhammer Fantasy. Warhammer 40K allows for less regimental, formation-based movement, and deals with more advanced weaponry.
Each player chooses an army from the official list (see below) and constructs an army of pewter and plastic miniatures representing the various units in that army. Rules for constructing armies are contained within the Warhammer 40K rulebook, and army-specific "Codices" that contain specific units and rules for each race/army (certain armies, for example some of the major Chapters of the Space Marines have their own Codex).
Play is divided into turns; with each player choosing specific actions for all of his units on his turn, and using dice to determine the results of those actions. Each match, at the onset, is assigned a set of rules and a goal (collectively called a "scenario") specific to it. The simplest of these is a basic "cleanse" mission, which ends after six turns, the victor being declared based on the control of the four quarters of the board; more complex goals can include night fights, take-and-hold missions, and various others.
Some players organise a series of scenarios (called a campaign) where two or more players fight against each other in a number of battles. These campaigns may feature their own special rules, and are tied together by a storyline, which might alter according to the results of each scenario when it is played.
Since the models are hand-painted and assembled by the player, players are often encouraged to design their own paint schemes as well as using ones pre-designed in the various books. In addition, they are also encouraged to further modify their figures and vehicles using parts from other kits and models(known as "bitz" to players), or scratch-made from plasticard or modelling putty. These conversions are often entered into constests at sponsored tounaments and similar gaming events.
As of September 2004, Warhammer 40K is in its fourth edition. New players wishing to start playing should expect to spend upwards of $200-300 US dollars for a reasonably sized army (1000-2000 points worth of models), including costs for rulebooks, and paints.
Other miniature-based games in the Warhammer 40K universe include Battlefleet Gothic (a spaceship wargame), Epic 40,000 (a much larger scale war simulation, with much smaller 6mm miniatures), Necromunda (gang fighting in a large underground slum), Gorka Morka (similar gang fighting based on a desert planet, with a focus on scavenging), Space Hulk (Space Marine Terminators vs Genestealers on an abandoned spaceship - inspired by the movie Aliens) and InquisitorAn official in an Inquisition, an Inquisitor is literally one who "searches out" or "inquires" ( Latin inquirere < quaerere "to seek"). The Grand Inquisitor, or Inquisitor Generalis was the chief Inquisitor of an Inquisition. Prominent inquisitors Some of (an even smaller scale fight simulation, with relatively large 54mm models).
Several computer gamesscreenshot of Tetris for the Nintendo Game BoyA video game is a game played using an electronic device with a visual display. Overview Often "video game" is taken in a narrow sense to mean those games played on consoles for television and similar handheld have also been based on Warhammer 40K, such as Fire Warrior, Chaos Gate , Space CrusadeSpace Crusade is a board game by Milton Bradley in conjunction with Games Workshop and was first made in 1990. While produced in the UK and available in some other countries including Australia it was not ever sold in North America. It uses many of the co, and Dawn of War. The popular computer game Starcraft is also thought by some to have been largely copied from the Warhammer 40K universe.
Apart from official computer game projects there have also been a number of Modification developer teams inspired by the Warhammer 40K background.
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