How Can I Get Started Playing Warhammer 40,000?
That’s easy enough: buy some Warhammer! Games Workshop’s website—or a store if you live near one—can get you set up with one of the several tiers of Starter sets for 40K, which will come with the miniatures, tools, rulebooks, and scenery to learn and play your first games. From there, you can pick a faction from the ones above you like the sound of, grab their specific set of rules—called a Codex—and some models, and go from there.
The downside of Warhammer in general is that it’s a very expensive hobby to get into—a standard-sized army for any faction can cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars, and that’s not counting the rulebooks or the hobby materials used to put them together and paint them. If you want to get started learning without putting in a significant amount of cash, either grab one of the starter sets, which are relatively cheap in comparison, or you can read the basic core rules of 40K online for free, or through the Warhammer 40K app.
