Warhammer 40k
A community dedicated to the universe of Warhammer 40k, a tabletop setting in the far, distant future.
This is a general community for 40k miniatures, art, lore discussion, and gameplay discussion.
Rules
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Keep it civil. Don’t insult other community members in posts or comments, and don’t make posts designed to insult other community members or parts of the fandom with different opinions.
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Posts must be on-topic.
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No real life politics. That means no political advocacy, and no real life political discussions vaguely dressed up as on-topic posts. If you want to discuss real life politics, you are free to start your own community.
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No memes/low-effort spam/Youtube poops style posts. grimdank is a place for those.
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Posts must be coherent.
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If a post is otherwise allowed but has realistic gore or nudity, please mark it NSFW.
Helpful Links
- 10th Edition Rules
- iOS Warhammer 40k App
- Android Warhammer 40k App
- 3rd party site for running Kill Team games
Related 40K Communities:
!imaginarywarhammer@lemmy.world
Other tabletop hobby communities:
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40K lore is huge. The best advice that I can give you is to pick a faction you like the most and just start reading about their part of the setting first. It sounds like you're into Space Wolves, so I'd pick up Ragnar's novels and just keep going from there.
Eventually, the main themes of 40k's lore will start to come up repeatedly, and the wider universe will start to make sense through osmosis the more you read. I'd recommend avoiding wikis and youtube lore however, a lot of that stuff is poorly written and badly researched, and it's a lot more satisfying in my experience reading the books the wikis are based on.
I'd also recommend Eisenhorn as a great starting point. But Games Workshop also sells rule books called codexes which have tonnes of great up-to-date lore about each faction.