Does anyone play warhammer anymore

It can gradually build up from there and be restored to full glory and then some. Warhammer is definitely a worldwide thing, lets clear that up right now. Warhammer fantasy is a lot like Warcraft fantasy, which is huge there. Significant fanbase correlation, especially when you factor in the sheer number of people in Asia. For someone without the DLC to play the maps, you need to join a lobby of a regular game.

The host, if he has it, can then select those maps and que. Only exception is steam friends. Steam sales could bring in more new players who are interested in a 4 player skaven co-op, but that is a pretty niche market to begin with.

With the game out for 10 months now, most of the people interested have already bought the game and quit. What they need to do at this point is use the money from console release sales to expand their staff and develop more varied content to attract a wider audience, balance weapons, and fix the bugs.

Build lots of hype for more varied future content. I left when the DLC came. Things are happening so slow and it sucks to see that they still haven't done the quest update that was bound for May.. Eh I play. So I think it would be fair to say that there are at least people in my local area with some interest in wargaming.

If you extrapolate that across all of the UK , that would be roughly , people. That doesn't seem too unrealistic, so for my wild guess, I would say , is a good low end estimate for the number of people currently buying and playing GW games in the UK.

However, if you broaden your definitions of "player" and "game" that figure could go up to many millions. So somewhere between , and 10 million, depending on what question you're asking.

You have my bolter! It won't be a great guestimate, because I'm sure there are some gamers that spend a lot and some that barely play or just model, or whatever. And there's 2nd hand models. I like the thinking to use GW sales. But then again that doesn't account for eBay, gumtree, thefts, car boot sales, so yeah Should not have picked this scab.

Plus there's no indication what percentage of GW sales really? Only GW? That's an issue itself are sold to players rather than collectors. GW have claimed they sell mostly to collectors, anecdotal evidence seems to contradict that.

Azreal13 wrote: There's 92k registered Dakka users. Kilkrazy wrote: When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.

The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.

No, but his actual post says tabletop games, and he admits using Warhammer in the thread title was a lapse. Upstate, New York. But how many of those registered users have posted in the last year? The number might be a good base for people who have one point played, or painted, miniature wargames, but for active, it might be a little off.

Ultramarines, 3rd Co. Southampton, UK. Barnzie4Moop wrote: Wow wow wow Gone-to-ground in the craters of Coventry. Games-Workshop has Facebook pages for their stores these days. That might help work it out for UK GW players. But, assume for every 1 there, there's at least 1 more who hasn't signed up.

Any other games, you'll have to look at club and store groups. Like in my sig. I was just curious asking this question. It's nice to see I got people thinking. In hindsight this question was a bit a lot stupid but still It's interesting to ponder all the different variables involved in such data gathering.

Proper statistics could do the trick. But then you need a reliable sample set which is missing atm. The term ''playing'' needs to be clarified first. Former moderator 40kOnline Lanchester's square law - please obey in list building! Illumini: "And thank you for not finishing your post with a " " I'm sorry, but after 's that has to be the most annoying sign-off ever. Ottawa, Canada. I think you have to look at a random sample - now this won't necessarily be accurate but let me try some estimating using Ottawa, Canada which has roughly 1 mil people in the greater area.

We've got about 5 stores where people play regularly, which is about 20 people per store. So lets say people in an area of 1 million. That seems fair chaosmarauder. So many variables to consider.

I will try looking at GW sales and working backwards with what seems like a fair average spend, see if it matches up with the figures calculated on here. Barnzie4Moop wrote: Hello everyone. At Games Workshop, we believe that how you behave does matter. We believe this so strongly that we have written it down in the Games Workshop Book. There is a section in the book where we talk about the values we expect all staff to demonstrate in their working lives.

These values are Lawyers, Guns and Money. Just an update - I just shipped an item on ebay to someone in Brunei so my original statement of half the world not being reached yet might be wrong That box you bought a couple of months ago to make an army. It can no longer do that. You need this and that, oh, and we have these new models for your army that are so much better than your existing ones. Dropping new edition after new edition every 2 to 3 years says you cannot write a good game.

I agree. Also the fact that you have to keep buying supplemental books for your army and the game as the edition continues is frustrating. Showing up with books just to play a game of 40K is not for me. I played one game of 7th, just before 8th came out.

And that was the last game I played. Maybe even pick up a paintbrush now and then. It strikes me that Horus Heresy gaming answers a lot of the issues you have with 40k. The rules churn is glacial, there is pretty much no codex creep, and the community works together to keep the game balanced rather than find rules to exploit.

The reason is that GW sucks in many ways! And other sci-fi and fantasy franchises have a way of vanishing, burning out, never building up a head of steam or going bust. Its aimed at mature gamers, generally non or less competitive, and has more of an emphasis on personal creativity. With both historicals and classic fantasy your army is system agnostic which saves you from the vagaries of games companies. Blood Bowl is a passion of mine. I run a local league and have a blast doing it.

I was, until recently, also playing Warhammer Underworlds, which is a great little game. I also get to breathe life into each and every model.

Rules wise, I find smaller games have a tighter set of rules, but also lend themselves very well to letting players explore and adapt them to suit their needs. Not on the table, but did play the video version of Mordheim for a bit and loved that.

I could totally get into a game like that for all the listed reasons. I really feel your pain with Wh40k. Rules creep, pseudo-magic phases, competitiveness, the sheer cost of models and books and terrain…. I like the look of their models but not enough to buy them. I mistakenly bought the new Tau XV8 suits only to find their poses are so dramatic that you cant actually do much interesting with them. So, I felt like that was a waste of money.

I think the Citadel paints are great, but again costly. My favourite is Catalyst and Battletech, next to no rules creep there models are in desperate need of modernisation mind you! Yeah, you saw the writing on the wall sooner than I did. I suppose I saw it, but I was a hopeful optimist. I agree about the setting. Battletech has mildly interested me. My hurdle with it has been local interest, virtually non-existent, and the rules just seem so overwhelming.

No more points values armies, no more looking for synergies and combos. Something like that could be fun. And the guy who did the intro video has about a dozen battle reports on his channel, so if you have time to watch them you can get a good feel for the game.

The rules are also simplified, so you make fewer dice rolls, which again, AFAICT tends to lead to more deadly combat as there are fewer ways to shrug off damage. Just waiting for minutes for your opponent to do their thing though you do make a few rolls in the form of armor saves is not only mind numbingly dull and not engaging, but makes for a very poor flow to the battle itself. Just stumbled across this article after a week or two of the new IP ban. Oh well. Aside from this — when I got back into 40k with 8th, it was with sisters of silence and blackstone constructs which I loved the look of enough to get full armies of, so I feel pretty damn stupid as I really actually thought they were gonna get codexes, doh!

What I have a problem with is often all the supplemental books you need to buy to make an army function. I remember people playing with books just for a single army codex, expansion books, codices for allied armies and those supplements, etc. I really love the 40K setting.

Such rich lore and the aesthetic of the game is perfect for me. Tags: Warhammer 40K. Table of Contents hide. Author Recent Posts. Founder at Creative Twilight. I have been in the miniature hobby since when some friends introduced me to Warhammer 40K.