The small collection of miniatures you can afford and the slapdash paintjobs you can give them will never live up to that.A video game might. There are alien masters of bio-organic technology whose guns are living organisms that hatch their own bullets Tolkien’s football hooligan Orcs turned into speed-obsessed revheads who spread across the galaxy as fungal spores genetically engineered Space Marines who spit acid and eat brains.
The rulebooks and fiction of Warhammer 40,000 describe an opulent universe splitting at the rotten seams with every idea its designers ever had or stole. We want the game that unfolds in our heads while we’re planning a tabletop battle of Warhammer 40,000. Image via Deviantart user ukitakumukiEverybody who plays Warhammer 40,000-Games Workshop’s over-the-top science fantasy wargame played with very expensive toy soldiers-wants the same thing from a video game.
