Hello, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.
Welcome back to Law Crimes. Hello! We've got
a couple of interesting things to point out today.
First of all, we've got a special guest, all
from the other side of the world, Julius from
Legion W. Hello! Hello. Happy to be here? Leave
it open -ended. We still have time to ruin this.
Oh, man. Yeah. And also, a fun fact, it's Colin's
birthday. Happy birthday to you. You've all been
saying it for eight months, and now it is actually
the birthday. Happy birthday. Robert Smith in
chat says, 10 years time, he will be as old as
Eldred. So happy birthday, Colin. um but today
we are discussing something which we thought
would be a bit of fun because we we haven't got
hal today sorry so i'll be kind of covering the
uk basis but we've got an islander we've got
an american a canadian and a man who lives in
japan so we're going to discuss about the differences
between Warhammer across the globe as far as
we are aware. And we've also asked the Discord
for your own stories or little snippets about
how you got into Warhammer and what media brought
you into the fold. But Julius, to start us off,
how long do you reckon you've been into Warhammer?
Because that's kind of one of the questions that's
always on someone's mind. They're like, are you
a newbie? Have you been here since COVID? Have
you been playing this since you were a kid? What's
the deal? How long have you been into it? No,
dude, tell me about it. That's like a lot of
what comes up in conversations here. It's just
like, oh, God, why are you here? And that's like
a lot of the things which I myself don't know.
To give a story, I'm relatively new to the actual
experience, both just in terms of just the world
itself and actually the tabletop. About 2022
was when I really got into it. Of course, before
then, you know, there was a period of time where
I remember as a kid, I was like reading Game
Informer magazines when Space Marine 1 was still
like... Yeah, that's like ancient technology
right now. I would get those every month. oh
i was like i was like remember i was like reading
then they have like the ratings and stuff you
know like space marine is like what it's like
a 9 .1 that's insane it's like it's like halo
reach is like a 9 .3 that must mean it's a really
good game it's like so um should be but yeah
but um yeah that was really sort of the the there
was a sort of brand awareness of it and then
um i came to japan in 2019 And up until that
point, I was a big sci -fi nerd. It was more
attuned towards sort of what was considered to
be Eastern pop culture. So the big one for me
is Gundam. Gundam, but besides those like Transformers,
right? Macross, Pat Labor. Yeah, there's like
all the check marks right now. Yeah, it's like
this guy, look at this guy. It's just living
1980s, 1990s, just over and over again. But yeah,
so those were the big works. And then just for
the context, just to give a bit of intro on the
story, I work here in show business. So I'm mostly
an actor in my main time. And the story of how
I got into 40K actually was because I was fortunate
enough to get a role that I was coveting for
a while. And on set, there was a lot of sort
of advisors and producers who were super into
the IP I was working on. uh but um they were
more precisely into 40k and so a lot of them
i was just chatting with them they're like you
know what you should do uh you should take a
look at something called black library it's really
interesting um and then from there there was
like a half year of just laps after the um after
the set basically wrapped and i remember at one
point just sitting in my room like doing nothing
i'm like yeah you know maybe maybe this is the
time to start it'll be great and so you know
a few it was like after that was like a few wiki
jumps just later and suddenly i was like you
know what uh maybe maybe i do want to get a few
minis this sounds like a good idea and so then
three years down and now i have three lord of
skulls behind me on my shelf and it's yeah it's
just been down those now nice this man played
100 games with those little skulls so you can
see it on his channel yeah yep Are you going
to make five? Are you going to get to ten? How
many is too many Lords of Skulls? It's whatever
the amount that I'm going to be allowed to play
by GW, frankly. Pitch is like, GW, can you please
make them battle line? That would be insane.
Imagine if I could run six of them. They got
Chaos Knights. They might as well do that with
Lord of Skulls. It's basically a knight. I'm
just saying, like, there was a period of time
where, like, Five Nights was meta, like, earlier
last summer. And it's like, it could have been
Five Lord of Skulls. I think that's just GW's
mistake. I'm waiting on the same thing for Wraith
Nights one day. If only. You must have had fun
at the start of 10th, dude, when it was like...
Oh, it was great being an Eldar player at the
start of 10th. I'm not good at playing 40k, but,
you know, it was... i could point at other people
and go yeah the elder are doing great oh eli
what's the uh the massive towel drop ship thing
is that the manta manta is the man yeah surely
the manta is the meta because you can just go
into any game just be like smash smash Mine is
the Meta. Well, it's 2 ,200 points if I remember
correctly. You can't even use it in normal 40k.
It used to be 2 ,000 on the dot for all of Eternity
until now. I mean, it is $2 ,000. It was $2 ,000
and 2 ,000 points. So, perfect. I'm pretty sure
there's... I'm like 99 % sure that there's actually
one at the Akihabara Warhammer store. I'm pretty
sure I remember seeing it there. I made poor
purchases there, but I did not buy it. But if
there's a tiger shark there, it's going in the
suitcase. Oh, man. I mean, look, every time I
go to a convention, I come back with a new army,
so I can hardly say anything about war purchases.
I've just never been to a store that actually
had, like, a ton of War of the Worlds in it.
That was kind of like a crazy experience for
me. It's probably all over the place in the UK,
I imagine. Oh, yeah. You go to the one in Tottenham
Court Road and there's just like an entire wall
of just Forge World. Wow. That was like 50 boxes.
I've never been to a store in Alberta, at least,
with any Forge World in it at all. Well, I have
four, you know, those of us not in the UK. So,
you know, most of us, but Andy over here, it's
usually second, like not secondhand, but like
non. Warhammer game stores, sometimes at Forge
World. One of the last ones I had a bunch of
Lord of the Rings minis of all things, but still
no goddamn Nazgul. That's cool. It was a bit
of a culture shock for me because it's like growing
up in an island where I could only buy the little
Ultramarine starter box in the 90s. And then
now there is a shop called Just Games where you
can buy Warhammer and the whole like upstairs
is like Warhammer stuff. But like going from,
I don't have any access to Warhammer. Then you
just get like any Warhammer shop and like. london
or even the one in nottingham just like there's
boxes there's 15 types of titans i can buy wow
amazing um i have a question uh so what i was
thinking i was on now what i'm wondering is is
warhammer proportionally more expensive in japan
than it is here because when i went i was thinking
oh like the conversion rate's good maybe i can
get you warhammer but no it was the same price
in canadian dollars just converted into yen which
to me would mean is proportionally more expensive
so yeah absolutely yeah so that was actually
one of the things for a while which people were
trying to argue was that yeah it would be cheaper
in japan to pick up stuff just because you know
economically that's kind of just where the yen
is right now um but yeah gw has been pretty tight
about sort of when it came to every year they'll
basically just update the prices for a while
so there's a period of time i remember when i
got into the hobby at the end of ninth where
they didn't quite adjust their prices around
that point and that was a period of time where
i was just like ah you know it i'm just gonna
i'm just gonna blast money on this it's like
what's the worst that can happen it's like and
then yeah sure enough it was like after that
legionaries went from like at that point i think
it was like 7 000 yen to like they shot them
up to like 9 000 or something like that and so
then suddenly everything started to line up but
um it's still i think the best way if you're
and this is for anyone listening who is curious
about purchasing minis in uh japan one of the
best places you can look if you can get your
hands on it it's just secondhand stuff um so
mercari is fantastic as a place to look yahoo
auctions as well um besides that um a store which
i i gotta sort of i gotta plug two stores in
the area that are very interesting at least in
tokyo which is giant hobby and arrows uh both
of them are have a pretty vivid community and
that's sort of where you can see a little bit
less of like the obviously when people come here
they're like flagship stores you know warhammer
cafe it's all and it's all really great um but
if you want to get like a little bit of taste
of like what the sort of lgs uh vibe is like
definitely those two stores are a great place
to start so you have a video on arrows right
is that the one that you Did a video one or is
that a different one? I do. Yeah. So actually
the channel has a video for both giant hobby
and arrows. So if you're curious about them,
you can check them out. But yeah, we're hopefully,
hopefully we'll have an opportunity to do a little
bit more with them in the future. It just really
depends. It's like Tokyo film laws are fantastic.
So every time we think of an idea, we have to
jump through those hoops. Interesting. yeah or
colin how do you if you can cast your mind back
i don't know if we've discussed this on on a
stream before maybe maybe we have behind the
scenes what's your experience been like growing
up in the us of a and getting miniatures and
are they expensive did you find stuff in a store
did you play a video game what was your like
gateway into this expensive hobby well i'll start
with the minis actually because it's i mean it's
kind of simple but it just is it is i actually
used to where i used to live in illinois before
i moved was um i was 10 minutes from a games
workshop store and i always remember like just
because i used to when i was in high school me
and my friends like we'd go on runs to like game
stop best buy and a local place called disc replay
yes dude some good times it was always remember
this yeah like oh it was always fun usually like
we we were looking for i like my one friend was
really into like amiibos for smash bros So he
was usually the one like rounding everyone up,
but I would always look at the games workshop
and I was like, I was curious, but at the time
I wasn't like that, like really into war gaming
or anything. It was barely even playing much
D and D. So, and I was also, I also kind of knew
I'm like, if I make one purchase. it's not going
to stay at just like, oh, this cool little box
of guys. It's going to be... You're gone. But
then when I got into Warhammer, actually, it
was through a friend of mine who I guess when
he bought his graphics card one year, he got
a free copy of Total War Warhammer, the first
one. And I didn't buy it until he gave it to
me because he hates strategy games. I had never
bought it. Not even out of necessity. It was
kind of disinterest, but that's because I used
to be like the... total war purist i was like
this why are there dragons here i don't want
dragons i want i want trebuchet's max and cannons
you know foot so all my history i i was like
that for a bit but then i played it it was like
well he's not going to use it he's giving it
to me for free i might as well try it and then
i was like and and now i'm in and then from there
it was a you know like Like you were saying,
Julius, the, Oh, let me click on the wiki. And
Oh God, I'm here. Oh God. You know, as much as
people give, you know, a lot of people, you like,
you know, you can, and probably should sometimes
give the wiki some, you know, some crap for not
being the most accurate. It is when you're just
starting Warhammer. I still find it's like the
coolest, coolest experience. You scroll through
the wiki for five hours. You learn nothing. Because
every other word is another proper noun. It's
another link to another article. This doesn't
help me. What the hell is an orphanarium? What
does that mean? What does that mean? Do I need
a pie chart to break this down? What is the end
times? It sounds really cool when I don't know
anything about it. What's the content, the lore
content creation like in Japan? uh like is there
japan's own lore youtubers or does everyone over
there also just watch like lutin and all the
like are the classics i guess you got so you
got a handful of people who are fighting the
good fight out here uh and when i say that is
where there's a few people who are like desperately
trying to localize and translate like sources
and stuff like that and i guess this should all
be prefaced with the fact that like while japan
has access to a lot of lords like for example
there's a japanese version of horus rising that
you can get and it's like it's a it's it's a
really interesting one because it's kind of sort
of localized in its serialization as well where
if you ever read a japanese uh novel um in asia
as a whole they don't do like numbers usually
there's an up and a middle and a down and so
when you have like a book there's like you have
the upper half and then you have the lower half
essentially and horse rising for whatever reason
was split into an upper half and a lower half
and so you have to go and so i'm like i'm looking
through like used books like here's horse rising
great i only get the up section so now i have
to find the down section oh wow wow yeah wow
so they don't they don't translate many black
library books uh for japanese Not a lot off the
top of my head. I think the biggest, I know there's
a Japanese copy of Horus Rising. There's a handful
of the Horus Heresy books that have made their
way into Japanese print. But besides that, I'm
probably missing some, but really when compared
to what you're able to get in English or a lot
of the romance languages, there's just a lot
less available. So then. going back to the subject
of sort of content creators here, a lot of them
as well, they get a lot of their info from one
of the few things that are translated to Japanese
quite frequently, which are the codexes. So yeah,
so that's usually you'll get like a few YouTube
channels that definitely tend to cover those.
And it's like a little bit of a sort of the the
always a little bit what happens with channels
here is like you know those like you know those
weird like miniature shops that look like they
sell gundam models but don't actually sell gundam
models in tokyo well so this is what it's about
yeah it's like what are these like what are these
rip rip rip ties It's like, that's kind of just
how it feels. I was like, I was like, I don't
know. It just sounds like Mark two for me, just
extra steps. So it's just like, so is Warhammer
in its earlier stages of. I don't know, a birth
of rising? What stage of the infection is it?
Is it just now? Is it just now on the rise kind
of and it's like the ball has started to roll
or has it been big for a while? Excellent question.
A lot of the people here would argue that it's
definitely been sort of rising, especially recently
with 10th. I would definitely say that's the
case. The thing to remember with Japan is that
a lot of Japan is definitely pushed on sort of
how well stuff is marketed through media and
so on and so forth. And we do have some stuff
which is interesting. For example, if you guys
remember the Imperium magazine and the Combat
Patrol magazine, which is currently being serialized,
Japan has that too, which is quite interesting.
It's something which you can walk into like a
bookstore here and you can find. um all of the
sort of like imperium or like the combat patrol
magazines nicely lined up but only the paint
ones uh because people here are still smart about
which ones do they want the scalp to high heaven
so it's like um so you do see like a lot of people
who just happen to read it by like by eye so
there's a little bit of that brand familiarity
there um but there hasn't been a sort of killer
piece of media yet um in the sense like not people
a lot of people don't know about for example
Astartes here um it's like sort of like some
people have seen the secret level short not a
lot you know and Space Marine 2 while it was
big you know it's ultimately it's a western game
and so that's sort of like when coming into the
Japan sphere you're competing with like so many
different and they're like what is this this
is not a from software game what am I supposed
to do with this it's like kind of reminds me
of like i know it was difficult to bring things
like xbox into japan compared to like what's
your like you've got the playstation and you've
got nintendo as like home turf and then xbox
comes in like do you like master chief it's like
who is this that's not mario or and that's now
a battle xbox is losing here too it's true oh
man i can cry about that one for so long Because
you do have the big cafe, the Warhammer cafe
in Japan. And I know America is now getting their
own Warhammer world, which is interesting. But
I know it's like America is a bit of a cheat
code because if you're big in America, it goes
everywhere. So I like, do you reckon the cafe
in Japan has had much of an impact in like the
consciousness of like the populace? Like, oh,
this is Warhammer. They just like, that's some
weird gimmicky shop. I have no idea what that
is. I just walked past it. Oh, I don't know what
that is. Absolutely. So I think when it comes
to the cafe, it definitely has spread brand recognition.
And it's worth also mentioning at this point
that the cafe very much so, because it's smack
them in the middle of Akiba, right? So you get
a bunch of people who are going there for nerd
stuff. And then it's like, oh, here is the Warhammer
Cafe. And it's like, that's not Japanese. What
is that doing here? But it's also worth remembering,
even in just downtown Tokyo, besides... the the
warhammer cafe there's i think like two two other
flagship stores stationed here that are just
scattered around tokyo then there's one in yokohama
one up and like further north in a place called
omiya uh we don't go there uh but it does exist
and then there's like then there's like one in
like osaka now there's like they basically just
uh g double has been making a push to try and
get a flagship store basically in every major
city And it looks like that's a business model
that they're sticking with. So every time you
go onto the GW website, they'll be like, we're
opening up a store here. We're looking for staff.
We're opening up a store here. We're looking
for staff. And so it does seem to have some sort
of an impact there where you just see this sort
of brand recognition there. And that gets a lot
of people curious. So you get people walk in
and that's where the staff come in. It's like,
so you've never heard about this. Let me tell
you a bit about this experience. um there's like
a because i i remember looking i was thinking
of like a fun idea if like if i had money which
i don't uh but if i had money a fun idea would
be like going to every warhammer shop in the
uk and then do like one all of them in europe
and i was like curious as a concept like would
that have legs and you go to like like amsterdam
and there's like two of them in uh in yeah like
the the capital and they're like i don't know
if you'll see it very well but like If I zoom
out a little bit, like, you can kind of see,
like, there's kind of scattered all over the
place in Europe. And, like, not too far apart,
I guess, if you get to, like, the train or something.
And I'm like, I wonder how much resources that
GW can spare outside of Europe and America to
different countries with regards to, like, how
many shops is enough to, like, spread our influence?
And I guess the department is like, put them
everywhere. That's the solution. It was kind
of hard to find. warhammer stores when i went
there like if you put warhammer into google maps
in tokyo all i like all that came up for me was
the cafe i didn't get any other like secondary
hobby stores and stuff like that so that was
eli eli i guess you came to the right guy what
can i say like you're gonna get a different round
too yeah this uh this might be a dumb question
this might be or like a point i don't know might
be my lack of understanding for the uh that's
kind of alphabet but Would something like Warhammer
be hard to translate because you basically have
to reinvent all of these words in Katakana? Is
that kind of how it works? It definitely has
localization issues. And I think one of the biggest
barriers that Warhammer has, at least in Japan,
is the localization. It's not an impossible thing.
And it's important to remember when it comes
to localization is just there's plenty of other...
other companies have seen success with a solid
localization like magic the gathering is a great
example right it's pretty well played here and
so and you get people who cleanly translate that
stuff um but there is always like a little bit
of uh the tricky part with any sort of like um
western company coming into japan and trying
to establish a foothold is you can always get
the translation to sort of correct um you can
get the meaning translated, but you can't always
get the nuance. And that's the tricky part. So
there's always a little sense of like, the joke
in Japan has always been that if you read something,
you're like, this has definitely been translated
by someone who doesn't speak Japanese as their
main language. And so a great example, which
I can give, and this is one which people might
disagree with me on, but this is one that like
stood out to me when I was getting into the hobby
was. um i gravitated really hard towards chaos
i'm a big word bearers fan so yeah i'm thank
you i think i finally get the recognition i deserve
eli finally has a friend who likes like second
four years i go here and like everyone's like
oh you like them There ain't nothing wrong with
liking WordBears. There ain't nothing wrong with
it. I feel deep shame, you know. This is a safe
space for WordBear fans. I just don't like, you
know, they're space marines at the end of the
day, so I've just got out from there. They made
it so that the most space marines in the city
died. Hang on, hang on. I'm listening now. fair
superhuman genocide and count me in okay okay
it's like um but but getting on the topic of
that i remember when i picked up my first uh
codex um there's a usually when anything revolving
around the word chaos is translated to japanese
there's two routes people go um there is you
either translate it uh directly phonetically
and so then it becomes calls so calls is what
it would say um and and then the other option
which people tend to do as well and this is have
more common i think in like if you look at yugioh
yugioh does this or um i think i would bet magic
does it but i'm not super familiar so don't hold
me on that but they use the term and is like
a it's a it's a kanji term that just basically
means like um yeah it it it does translate to
chaos it just means sort of like a mixture or
like uh dis or dissonance uh is the best way
to describe it um but and i was really expecting
them to go around like as like around and there
is like smatterings of a compound that are like
put through the codex as sort of like a description
but the actual word that they use for chaos is
chaos So it's K also, like directly phonetically
translated. To this day, GW is the only company
that I know who has used that phonetic translation.
Wow. I mean, hey, it could be an insane business
move. Wow. But it wouldn't be the first time
when they were like, oh, how can we get around
using orcs in the setting? We'll spell it with
a K. Why would we get around elves? We use a...
we use elder and that i i can imagine someone
in corporate up at gw is like now we've got to
keep brand recognition i don't care yeah yeah
yeah yeah it's awesome hard k it's it's crazy
yeah yeah because you could you oh sue i guess
right uh or whatever yeah that makes sense um
yeah that that's very gwe yeah to do though definitely
that makes um Before we go any further, though,
we've got some donations to read out, so we're
going to go through those quickly. Starting off
with DonkeyManUSA. Stream late because happy
birthday, Colin. Happy birthday, Colin. Thank
you. Thank you. Thank you. I got another one
for you. From Gnomeus Chomsky. Hey, Colin. Happy
birthday. Thank you, Mr. Chomsky. The biggest
squigging $44 .82. $5. Thank you. Birthday throat
goat. You will be happy to know I ate some jalapeno
poppers last night and had a cold brown in my
butt today. Enjoy, Frieza. Thanks for coming
to Lord of Crimes, Julius. Thanks for coming
to Lord of Crimes. I guess I am Frieza. No, no.
That was... I changed my... In our Discord, I
changed my name to Throat Goat Frieza. With an
appropriately awful image to go along with it.
Oh my god. Oninada became a member, thank you
very much. And also, Main Event Virgil for five.
Literally, how have you not figured out this
streaming on time thing yet? I've never seen
you start on time, and I've been here since stream
one. Look, sorry it was a bit late. My dad had
popped over really quick to say happy birthday.
Yeah, you monster. I didn't want to completely
kick him out. Thank you, Main Event Virgil. And
thank you, Tybros, the colorblind wake, for being
a member of Physics Monk and staying gumpy. Hell
yeah. dj beast himself uh he's been a member
for 14 months over one year oh thank you thank
you dj beast happy birthday colin you are the
yamcha of lc wow that's the worst thing you could
ever call me okay can i can we at least go for
krillin i heard live streams can be late due
to excessive gooning from hal also happy birthday
colin Yeah, more birthday messages. Oh, there
we go. Speaking of which, Colin. Fanciful prodigy.
Saw Colin's Discord PFP wishing him an unhappy
birthday. I'm going to have to go find this now.
Biggest fliggin' 4042. Thank you for $5. Eli,
you got some good takes, but your transgressions
against AOS, but for your transgressions against
AOS, you must be punished. Sorry, bro. I will
fund the next Phil Kelly Tao book in custodian
release. Unbelievable, man. Unbelievable. Another
one from Gnomeus, a big one for 20 euros. Thank
you very much. Hey, guys, hope you're doing well.
I haven't been on the streams lately due to some
personal stuff. I'm planning to change that.
Colin, thank you for making Warhammer enjoyable
for me. Also, of course, happy birthday, Colin.
Thank you very much. That's a very interesting
question. Oh, another one. it's another one colin
oh robert smith thank you for the fiver a big
a big happy birthday to the man the myth the
legend thank you and a very warm welcome to julius
indeed hey yeah where is colin on discord i'm
trying to find this guy's pfb we got two from
the dank apostle he's got a word bearer um ah
do you want to read this one eli because it's
one of your one of your friends the word bearer
friend dang apostle thank you for 35 czar your
friends Hey, guys. I stay in a small town in
South Africa where I have to buy all my models
online. I am paying our $1 ,600 equivalent for
the Nightbringer. I'm not sure what you mean
on what the math is. So what's the Nightbringer
usually worth? He's like $300 in Canada. Oh,
wow. Like $200 -ish, I think. He's getting a
deal then. Yeah, if that's what he means. I'm
not sure if that's what it means or not. We got
another one as well from him. Thank you for the
14s of horror. Wordbears have the better trilogy
of books. There you go. And he's got them right
there. I got it there. I'm pretty sure it's like
$200. Neon LF Graves, is there a homegrown tabletop
war game from Japan? I mean... Gundam technically
has just started a tabletop game, haven't they?
They're just like, you can get little ones. Yeah,
I can take this. Gundam Assemble is the one which
Bandai is currently having in the works. So that's
the one which is going to be the big flagship.
Hopefully, well, we'll see how it turns out,
but that's the one which they're pushing right
now. Previously, since then, there's been a handful
of games that have sort of run on a, usually
they play it on a grid system. There's a few
that are on grid or hex systems. I think there's
like, oh God, I'm losing it. There's like one
tabletop. It's not a miniature game per se, but
there's a tabletop war game -esque one that's
called Machine Embryo or something. And it's
like, the best way to describe it is it's like
a mix of armored core, but tabletop, where you
would basically have a mech and then they would
be like cards and you would like... build up
a loadout so there's like one deck of cards that
has like your um your left hand weapon you have
another with a shoulder like mounted weapon and
so you would like it was a weird top deck game
that had like a a similar sort of hit wound toughness
sort of system that uh that 40k has uh i only
played tabletop uh i only played the tabletop
of machine embryo once and then proceeded to
forget about it like three years ago so don't
don't quote me on that but it does exist The
last one for now. Don't call me mommy. Thank
you for five. Happy birthday, Colin. Best wishes
on finding your own Morathi. I will abstain from
pounding my desk violently. For you, Colin? Oh,
dude, this is the nicest wish I've gotten. Happy
birthday, Colin. Wish you a stable A1C level
this year. We can only hope. Thank you. Thank
you for being a member. Those were maybe the
nicest donations you guys have ever given to
us. This is the most well -behaved you've ever
been. There was a lot of nice, well -wishing
for Colin, and we like to see it because he often
gets bullied, and it makes me sad. Usually we
get bullied, and they put unspeakable things
in our chat, so I guess they're being nice because
you're here. Speaking of... I think the solution,
at least my take, is maybe that you guys should
just, every time you stream, you just make it
someone else's birthday or you just have on someone
whose birthday it is. Or we go through Wikipedia
for every day that we're on and we find a historically
notable person for that day and be like, we're
just going to put this image of them. It's Thomas
Edison. He's gone now, but it was his birthday.
But enough about what brought us into the hobby.
We basically put a little message out on our
Discord, so check out the Discord if you'd like
to. And we've got some responses from you guys
about how you got into the hobby or how it affects
where you live. And I thought it was only right
that we start off with a friend of the channel,
Red, who put this comment. Let me see what it
says on this screen. So my crossed out fall interest
into Warhammer was pretty normal and gradual.
I heard about 40k before, but didn't know much
about it apart from it's super over the top sci
-fi. One day, a YouTuber called The Exploring
Series, who I already watched for his SCP videos,
posted a brief explanation of 40k. I was immediately
hooked by the dark Gothic and Catholic aesthetic.
I remember wanting to know more about Chaos and
the Eldar specifically. There you go, Colin.
From there, more 40k stuff would pop up in my
recommended. Unfortunately, the only YouTubes
I watched at the time was Major Kill and a little
bit of One Mind Syndicate. Oof. From there, I
started learning more and more about the setting
and hobby. My first ever Warhammer purchase was
the Imperial Guard start collecting with the
Lehman Russ. Back then, I could never decide
if I wanted to play Imperial Guard or turn them
into GSC Brood Brothers. As for fantasy, my first
expose was the Russian Badgers TWW2, so that's
Total Warhammer video. I thought the game looked
cool, but that was about it. Eventually, I started
watching more stuff about the game and came across
Cody Bonds. He's been on the pod, who was my
only source of fantasy lore for a while. And
then Colin turned up and was just like, okay,
let's get back into Warhammer Fantasy. years.
I had brought the game and enjoyed it with all
of my lore knowledge practically coming from
the game and Cody Bonds. Then I found Colin,
there you go, through his Advancing 40k Lore
Pros and Cons video and started learning more
about fantasy through him. As for AOS, I always
heard it sucked for me to kill, so I never really
looked into it. Until one day I was bored and
decided to browse the GW web store and notice
how cool a lot of the AOS models are. Needless
to say, I got interested, so I found 2 Plus Stuff
for Lore and realized, hey, this setting sounds
pretty cool. From there... Hey, whoa got recommended
to me and I've been to a an AOS fan ever since
also I was an AOS fan before I was a fancy fan
Before I got into AOS all I knew about fancy
was the total war game Wow Thank you, right I
was Julius is there a warmer fantasy scene in
Japan at all or is it just 40k mostly? Um, there
definitely is an AOS as seen here. So if I were
to for example, just like pull up What's commonly
to do well? now x but like um the the wonderful
musk app uh if i were to pull it up um you usually
and you would just search up like warhammer tournaments
or something like that you usually get a 50 50
split so you get like people who are you know
very much like 40k 40k 40k here's my sylvaneth
army and it's like there's there's a lot of that
so there's people who jump in between and just
because there's once again it just goes back
to the brand familiarity here isn't as concrete
as it is overseas so there isn't sort of that
that link of warhammer to 40k and sort of vice
versa that really is is present so a lot of people
here when they get in they're like do i start
with 40k do i start with aos and so there's this
that that's sort of like debate to start and
yeah a lot of people are there how about how
about old world i was going to say i don't suppose
i assume i i assume gw wasn't pushing warmer
fantasy a lot in japan 15 years ago and that's
the only reason old world works around here is
because there's a bunch of old heads who like
fantasy so guys i i have some breaking news i've
just realized that i have been bamboozled by
this commenter this is not red this is someone
using his identity oh my gosh you sneaky buggers
how dare you how dare you You were going into
the gulag. Whoever this is, I will find you.
I will hunt you down. You are being ejected.
We are going to possibly eject you from the hobby
somehow. You sneaky boys, because all the comments
are mainly Mike saying, they fell for it. Thanks,
guys. Anyways. Is there any old world around?
Even just where you are, I guess. There are probably
like 10, 15 people right now who will probably
be living in Japan who will watch this podcast
and they will be furiously pumping their fists
right now and shaking their monitor. Let's go
old world. There's like a few people always,
when I go to like a tournament or I go to a meetup,
everyone's like, have you heard of old world?
Are you into, would you be interested in playing
a bit of old world? I remember I'm sitting there,
I'm like, dude, it looks. interesting but like
you're asking a lot out of me dude so it's fine
it's good it's really good you should play it
it's so true i was like i was talking to the
um i was talking to the giant hobby guy the um
the guy who runs that store um and he's obviously
like just gets a bunch of people in and out who
like are just super into 40K and ALS. And that
seems to be just as two big breadwinners. But
very occasionally, if you just get in a conversation
with them, you'll just eventually, it's like
entropy. It just always ends at old world for
whatever reason. It just funnels in that direction.
I'm like, okay. It's like, I'm here to buy space
mines. So that's the experience. Cool. Should
we talk about some tabletop stuff? like the uh
the real the real life play in the game that
stuff i think uh i will see if i can i am i have
so many screens i am trying to find tabletop
relevant comments uh but feel free to tell tell
us about your experience while i find something
that could yeah hear a wet from there because
mr julius here probably plays more tabletop than
any of us uh Andy doesn't play any tabletop.
I was going to say, a lot more than me. Colin
plays every once in a while. I play consistently,
but by that I mean like one game every one or
two weeks. It would certainly take me a while
to get 100 games in with my three Lord of Skulls
if I were to do such a thing. So I think you
probably have the most experience out of all
of us. Mind you, I've been playing the game since
I was 12, so I guess I have the most experience.
Yeah, that's the key reason, I think. You have
the most 10th edition experience, I think. so
i guess i don't know what do you i don't even
know what to ask like uh i guess what does the
tabletop seem like like how do people play is
there a wacky meta or is it the same as other
places um yeah what do you think that's uh so
yeah i can definitely man what is where to start
with that question eli that's the that's the
question it's a very deep question i was like
what is tabletop um but like i think japan has
a very interesting sort of environment for for
tabletop for 40k so this is and this also comes
a little bit i i can sort of explain it from
i guess my own lens because really that's the
only lens that i have into this um but i i'm
like pretty into trading card games right so
i haven't played much mtg but i i played a pretty
heavy amount of vanguard if people are are familiar
with that godforsaken IP and then I played a
lot of Yu -Gi -Oh which is the other horrible
one but I played a lot of them and then from
there it was like this weird jump from shuffling
decks into trying to handle the secondary mission
deck if you've ever tried like that tarot card
size it's just really confusing but anyway tabletop
here at the very least is very interesting in
the sense that There's this mix of local Japanese
players, so they do make up a good portion of
the player size. And then another large player
base is the expat group. So a lot of people come
here who are just like, yeah, I'm looking to
someone to play 40k with, whether they're on
work holiday or they're genuinely here working,
or some of them have their PR, so they're living
here permanently. but there is a discord in at
least for example in tokyo where there's just
this this amount just this huge conglomerate
of just like expats that are just all just like
i'm i'm ready to play fucking 40k tonight it's
like let's let's get it um really uh though to
be honest it's it's it's a bit of a wild west
out here in that sense like there's a lot of
like i remember when i first was trying to find
my like uh someone to play 40k with it's just
it's just really as simple as just like awkwardly
standing in a corner at the warhammer cafe and
hoping someone else is awkwardly standing there
that's awesome because we don't have that we
don't have that anymore i mean listen dude it
it worked only like once for me so it's like
it doesn't always work um But there is like a
little bit of that culture here where it's just
like you're just trying to find something. It's
like, oh, dude, you also speak English? That's
crazy. It's like, let's bond over the fact that
we're speaking English in Japan. Yeah, it's a
little bit. It's like, wow, you're fucked up
too. Jeez. It's like you came to Japan and you're
buying UK miniatures. That's crazy, dude. The
UK virus? Oh, you pull a thing. And then before
you know it, they're all just like, hello, governor.
Get a cup of tea, fish and chips, play a game
of Warhammer. Oh, my teeth. Oh, my teeth. Yeah,
it's not great being British. The friendship
is like immediately broken once you start discussing
line of sight. That usually is how it works.
You're like, dude, you're cool. And then you
like start drawing with your tape measure and
then you're just like, the friendship just evaporates.
I get better for the government. No, you do not.
I clearly see your whole model. dumbass it's
like that's kind of like how it goes um so but
yeah so there's another oh keep going um just
to sort of give one uh last thing for eli for
your question um is there any sort of like interesting
meta that is being built up in japan um there
is a pretty dedicated group of testers out here
um and so you will see a lot of people sort of
trying different things a lot of it does sometimes
tend to skew because a lot of it is just simply
um based on what is uh tested in the west so
a lot of people kind of like bring out uh what
is done in the west and then kind of just try
and port it over here that being said at every
tourney i have been to there's always one japanese
player playing either custodians or world leaders
and i don't know what it is but for whatever
reason they are just convinced that custodians
and world leaders are insane and you know i mean
hey they they clearly they sometimes talk but
like they they are really dedicated to the strategy
so wow interesting it's cool This one's from
Cassidy Cheese. Hashtag number one night fan.
I had a friend at my school who would explain
the different Age of Sigmar games they played
and some of the rules. I also played Total War
Warhammer because of a different friend and read
The Infinite and The Divine as my first book.
All of these got me into Warhammer as a whole.
Difficulties include money. Many such cases.
Warhammer was semi -affordable when I was a kid.
It really was. But it's tough nowadays. I do
understand. I've made this argument before. It's
a slight cope. It is a slight cope, I'll admit.
But for return on investment, Warhammer is not
actually that expensive of an op compared to
a lot of other hobbies as well. If you put $500
as an insane, unbelievable, like, get you into
this cost, but once you spend that $500, that's
technically all you have to spend. and then you
can you're not like redoing luxury cars yeah
yeah it's a good roi it's a very steep first
-time investment i understand that uh but like
compared to car guys who are spending their entire
paychecks on one little thing for their car and
then doing it again next week and doing it again
like there's there's far more expensive hobbies
out there and and there are like gacha games
where like i i've seen some of the ones this
is like some of the whales who are just like
$10 ,000 a month. You're like, ooh. Or owning
a Steam library and there's summer sales coming
around. You're like, oh, jeez. I can't wait to
play 50 games I won't play for 10 years. Amazing.
My wife would spend more than I do on Warhammer
on claw machines if she had the option. That's
her absolute favorite thing in Japan is going
to the claw machine stores and spending like
$100. and just playing claw machines for hours
and hours and then he like going honey we talked
about this yeah and then now we're gonna have
to buy a new suitcase because she has 20 million
stuffed animals and stuff oh man yeah The day
that Games Workshop manages to find a way to
fit Warhammer minis into the, like, gacha balls
is the day that I'm, like, over. Yeah. They have
experimented kind of with the, was it the Warhammer
Heroes box? Yeah. And you couldn't see what was
inside. So it's like, gotta get a ball. It's
like, screw off. If they actually made those
things and you could bring them as single characters,
that would totally work. i think i don't think
you were able to do that i think you had to have
the whole squad for them to work oh that was
a while ago yeah the on the side of the heroes
i distinctly have like a very strong memory of
me standing outside like a surigaya which is
like one of the the more common sort of like
uh pop goods sort of like shops here in japan
but i remember like buying they like they had
this just when the warhammer heroes uh the second
space marine box came out and was basically it's
the one that is now available in a kill team
but i remember distinctly buying i i desperately
wanted like the eliminator or whatever it was
from that there was like a phobos one and i was
standing outside of the shop and i will buy them
one at a time uh so they're like 1000 yen each
i'm like great okay whatever this is great and
so i would buy one i would walk out of the shop
open it realize it wasn't the one i wanted and
then go back in to buy another one this happened
eight times the clerk was like done at that point
all right you're here again that's great You
sure you don't want to buy like three? Is that
the thing where if you go into any Warhammer
shop in the UK, and I know they're told to do
this, you go past the threshold and someone lunges
at you from the team. They go, hi, can I help
you with anything? You're like, I've just got
here. Give me a minute to catch my bearings.
There's a lot of stuff to look at. The door's
not even closed, but thanks for the warm welcome.
the building the other foot is still outside
give me a second um but again poor guys they
have to do that because they're told yeah come
on what's the uh before if i may even me uh what's
the i don't even know how to like say it properly
like well like the friendliness meter of people
japanese people playing warhammer because around
where i live it's like you are you some like
you often get a very nice person but like for
some reason my local community is like just terrible
like rapid probably one in five people that you
play around here are like power gamers gotcha
guys will do everything in their power to just
like kill you in real life and they'll try to
gotcha on as many rules as possible and they're
just like very poor sports and very rude and
stuff like that uh what's the what's the friendliness
meter for japan how competitive are people and
like do people are people rude i guess at all
oh man that's um i think you definitely have
to rude everyone i'm rude that's like i'm like
i'm like just like going through my head i'm
like it's like how is like it's like compared
to me how shitty is everyone around here i know
that's kind of like um but like i think to answer
that question i think it comes a lot of it in
japan i think ironically parallels pretty well
to um what a lot of people say overseas which
is like um to a degree when it comes to the sort
of like power gaming the the actual toxicity
of the community a lot of it can be found sort
of on the more sort of um pub stomping sort of
like lgs level where you're just sort of like
if you're just here just to have a casual game
that tends to actually be the one that like is
the is the one where like people are like oh
i'm gonna i'm gonna hit you with 20 different
reactive moves and i'll blow you up instantly
um so while they play solitary you're kind of
just in the corner and i've i've definitely had
those experiences i think like especially when
i was starting out there was a period of time
where i was i was actually having trouble getting
into the tabletop simply because i'd be like
i would i would build this army and i would like
i would like really want to sort of like take
it out for a spin and then i would i would go
and have a not as pleasant experience as i originally
thought i would be having uh for three hours
um but i think i found a lot better success in
the sort of tournament scene here um where a
lot of people then start to get really particular
about, all right, match play, here are your set
rules, know your rules. And once you have that
guideline, the nice part about that is that all
that gray area for like ambiguity and sort of
fast play and whatever, that tends to sort of
fade away a little bit. It's not a complete fix,
but it does happen. And I think when it comes
to Japan, at the very least, a lot of the expats
here do stand by that and i think that's something
which is really it's really great to see and
a lot of japanese people as well do japan as
a whole has uh been pretty this is the country
that uh for for contact for like um they it's
like rule shark is like a perfectly normal thing
in japan it's like weird it's like i think everyone
else is like um it's like god rule shark is ass
and i'm you know i'm i'm trying not to uh take
size on the fence uh but japan they have a term
for that it's called judge killing um and so
the the term is like if you see someone doing
something attorney that is like that looks out
of questionable or something like that um it's
perfectly fine for you to call the judge over
and attempt to kill him out of the attorney is
basically the concept is like so that's that
was actually a um a sort of thing for a while
um But a lot of it, I think the thing is, is
that because the expat community and the Japanese
community, it's interesting in the sense that
it's like it's sort of split. But at the same
time, there's this weird like border where they
try and mix. And so that's the really interesting
one, because the biggest boundary ultimately
on where to answer your question of where a lot
of the sort of weird, whatchamacallit, the weird
miscommunication happens is mostly language.
yeah um some rules are not updated in japanese
like armor of contempt was translated like two
or three times over the course of ten things
and so it's like that's one of those things where
okay then you if if the guy shows up with the
japanese codex and you're comparing that to the
english codex and then the english faq and the
tournament manual suddenly suddenly you get into
a lot more confusion that happens that does happen
here so interesting yeah i was wondering if the
if the expats and locals stay apart from each
other so that was the answer my question i guess
but interesting got another one from the discord
uh this one's from the unit in brackets it it
and they them got into warhammer 4 uh via mechanicus
like the game Bro. Bro. GT in less than a year
of competitive play. Warhammer cool. Warhammer
is cool. I do have a question to you. This was
your Lord of Skulls games. Have you been keeping
a track of how many raised eyebrows you get when
you just like, they're putting that in and you're
just like, donk, donk, donk. And they're just,
and you can see them kind of saying in their
head, okay, this will be interesting. Is there
like frowns or? There's. The fun part about that
is it's always a 50 -50, you know, because the
question is always, it's always like, what the
fuck is that? It's like, oh, fuck me. What are
you bringing this toughness skew ass looking
ass? That's like, it's like two. It's like either
the guy who like, you're like, oh, it's like,
you know, I see it's a joke or people are going
to, or more people suddenly immediately start
formulating ways that they can outmaneuver my
list. And I'm like, it's not that hard. You don't
have to think that bad about this. um but yeah
i have definitely gotten a lot of i think one
of the pleasures about playing 40k is just the
nature of it's three hours with another guy and
it's a very social game right if i compare it
to something like tcg it's like at least for
yugioh especially it's like five minutes of just
like pure hard lock -in like will that will that
be everything do you have an activation it's
like what is your unknown trap card in the back
um it's it's very like uh even if i'm not fluent
in japanese i can there's like five six phrases
i just need to know and then i can i can just
sort of like multiple choice pick each one for
the situation 40k is is less like that you have
to you're keeping a conversation to the whole
thing you know and so that's one of the interesting
things is that you the the best part about the
the lord of skulls in a sense is the icebreaker
nature of it it's like oh sorry no go ahead colin
i would love to hear like everyone looks and
goes like dude that's so awesome you brought
you're bringing that thing like let's go like
i imagine everyone's like just excited to see
that monster show up it's like yeah it's it's
kind of uh i definitely like it because this
is also coming from a guy who like the the other
lists i play besides lord of scholars it's like
really boring stuff like i play like i play like
regular chaos space marines and the the list
i'm building right now is like a ultra marines
list and so everyone's like oh this guy and so
like when i when i like show up at the tournament
it's like everyone's like if i just bring that
list everyone's like kind of like shuffles away
from me you know with like a look of disdain
in their eyes um but like it's like with the
lord of skulls it's like you know you're shuffled
to the table the other guy shuffles the table
it's like oh that's lord of skulls and suddenly
i actually have a conversation as opposed to
like awkwardly standing like five yeah waiting
for the you know the game to start and then yeah
i'd love to see a lord of skulls funka pop they
made a space for me to say you're being too safe
make it a lot of skulls what's uh what's most
commonly played that have you noticed other than
i assume space marines probably uh like behind
space marines what do you usually see the most
of uh space marine and necrons are super big
here um the thing to remember for both of those
is the imperium magazine uh because you know
nine right they were the key ones yeah um at
the same for the same reason people who played
around eighth right space marines death guard
there's a there's a lot of them still hovering
around um and then besides that yeah custodians
are are up there really just because they're
they seem to be affordable I say with Warhammer
Cafe's fantastic Forge World selection, just
furiously peddling telemons and stuff like that.
Buy it, buy it, buy it, buy it. It's nice. It's
three, it's like 30 ,000 yen. It's great. Give
me your money now, peasants. It's like, imagine.
But so yeah, there was, they're pretty up there.
Besides that, there's I guess the other one,
like knights. I do see knights a lot. Chaos knights,
imperial knights, just any flavor of big robots.
And then I think this will please you, Eli. Tau.
It doesn't please me, but Tau do exist in tournament.
So you do get that. Yeah. It's like the big ones.
Not many Eldar is what I'm hearing. Not a whole
lot of Eldar. How about you kiss my ass? And
there's not a lot of Eldar around here either.
Sorry, Larry Collin. I actually have some fantastic
news for you, Collin. It's terrible news for
you, Eli. The Japanese community, yes, not a
lot of people play Eldar. The expat community,
and if you go, if you're ever curious, just go
into the, like, the Japan, the Wargamers in Japan
is what they're called, but the Wargamers in
Japan Discord. If you ever hop into their, like...
general chat for 40k it's just people play testing
ldar i don't know what it is it's like five like
four or five dudes like in a furious group huddle
just like let's laugh let's laugh we gotta laugh
this is crazy it's like every new balance they
just like comes out and everyone's like oh this
is this is optimal for ldar because of this this
opening this this allows me to get into this
okay this one like it's a nerf but it's not that
bad we can like play around by using this and
this i'm sitting here i'm like this is like this
is i'm getting bullied right now essentially
it's like i'm holding it with my head like space
remodel just standing here everyone's like furiously
exchanging like fire dragons and i'm just like
man is uh so when you say your community is pretty
intense like they're and they're good at the
game i guess like uh like metamancers lift lots
of like medic metacrafters and stuff like where
i live there's people who are decent at the game
but there's no like no one around here's like
that good to be honest like you run into your
occasional like gt person but then everyone else
is just pretty casual or like really competitive
but they only really know how to play reddit
lists so they're not that actually like that
good of the game but i don't know if that makes
sense but no it does um For sure. Dude, I have
to tread lightly on this one. That's the problem.
That's why I'm thinking so hard. It's like, cause
like, if I say, I think the problem is that if
I say like, oh yeah, no, we're pretty casual.
Then like some, some guy in the discord is going
to like bust my ass and say, no, it's like, we're
just like, we're very serious about this. It's
like, I'm in. And then on the flip side is if
I say we're really good, some guy on Reddit is
going to bust my ass. So it's yeah. How much,
how much practice do I need to do to not go?
Oh, and three. at the event when i show up how
much practice do i have to do to win at least
one game consider practicing for the the week
before it's like um i think the short answer
is is that we have a handful we have a pretty
good split so if you go to a tournament you'll
have your sort of more flavorful games uh and
then if you end up in top bracket god help you
uh that's sort of like the the experiment um
flavorful games to flavorful language like oh
i haven't heard that one oh god oh oh no that's
just me i think that's more so it's like when
you just surround you it's like it's like you
know it's just yeah um but um yeah to to sort
of bring it we have like a lot of this there's
a handful of people here that are either um that
are pretty impressive when it comes to the actual
gameplay um it's either people who regularly
go to like warhammer worlds as people who attend
like big events team tourneys overseas and that's
something they would actually travel for and
so that's those people are quite good um so there
it's so there's this image it's like you know
it's like it's japan like how how good could
people possibly be um the top end is is is certainly
it's it's not easy at the top end put it like
this um but yeah we we do have a pretty good
split and i do want to say it's like it's just
like any any anywhere else right like if you
just sort of like get especially like if you
go bought like if you go into the losers bracket
it's a lot your games get more flavorful you
know people occasionally make mistakes you make
mistakes so on and so forth and so yeah that's
pretty normal pretty normal all things considered
yeah yeah early comparable to western uh communities
as well i guess pretty much the same yeah yeah
interesting so the next one from the discord
we got from main event virgil regular on the
channel hello uh got into warhammer during lockdown
needed something to do besides playing video
games all the time and came across bricky's videos
in brackets you know the ones and then luton
originally i was just into the law but then i
decided i wanted to play the game tbh i think
the game takes too long to play for me personally
but i fell in love with the hobby inside which
is weird because i have never enjoyed art i've
been painting models ever since and i've branched
into different models besides warhammer honestly
it's been the most impactful thing i've done
for my own joy for the past five years and i
couldn't be happier with it oh that's lovely
nice lovely nice i've got to get back into painting
I've got so many minis. I've got some Chaos Boys.
I've got some Eldar. I've got some Space Marines.
I've got a little Corgi, Astra Militarum mini.
Nice. I've got a few here and there. I only really
know about your infamous Lords of Skulls, but
whatever kind of minis you like painting, or
are you just like, no, just Lords of Skulls,
please. I'll melt all my minis down just so I
can make new Lords of Skulls, like an offering.
there's like a um there's like a furious like
addiction to chaos that i have sort of like just
going around i think like just over here like
obviously the lord of skulls are right here but
if i would just and this is where i can you know
it's an excuse for me to show up a little bit
if i were to just go if i were to just go up
into my like cupboard i do have like a lot of
just big models that I tend to mess around with.
So I have here just your wonderful Master of
Shadows. If I do this for a second, Paul, just
so you can see a bit better. Oh, God. Nice. Nice
blue. Green blue stuff. Yeah, the 50 -50. Ghostly
flame. Nice. Got this. Very tomb king -y. I'll
take that as a compliment. Yeah. and then here's
my i do have an anger on as well just put some
quick quick ones i want to show off the rest
of don't look as good as these it's just the
ones that i feel nice on camera yeah when hal
shows his model models we all bully him yes it's
nice someone else who's good at painting show
their models because how usually you know when
hal does it it's like uh unrelated by the way
my cool model look at my hair he does that kind
of UK air of superiority like, oh, peasants.
Look what I can do. Is there much more crackdown
and painting requirements, I think, at all clubs?
Because around here, pretty much nowhere has
painting requirements. Obviously, a GT or whatever
sometimes does, usually. But you can show up
with a fully grey army around here. People might
not be that happy about it, but you can still
play with it and you'll still be allowed to.
Is everyone usually painted up in Japan? Yeah,
so here at the very least, you can definitely
get away with a great army. The rules that I
think we go by is if you want your battle -ready
points, those just 10 points that you need for
scoring, that's how you get them, right? The
standard is usually just three colors. And you'll
see a lot of people standing by that. um but
a lot of people here really enjoy flexing so
it's like you do have a handful of people like
all right here i'm about to whip out my fully
painted like stuff and it's like a handful of
like pretty dangerous people um in that sense
around there whereas like if you feel like somewhat
confident in your minis uh you will like look
at they will like pull their stuff out of the
suitcase and you instantly you're like any form
of like self -value that you have just like hits
the floor your heart shatters your eyes melt
yeah um i was like i distinctly have like one
memory of like one of the one of the best painters
here um i was like this italian guy and like
we were we were like talking like wow your minis
are really good he's like yeah i i i whipped
this mini out in like under an hour and i'm like
i'm looking at it like that's that is that is
heavy metal in under an hour i don't know what
you're doing and he was like yeah i just it's
just like just one stroke and it's done i'm like
i'm like sure and i was like just like show me
your hand right and so he shows his hand it's
like there's like a little shake right i'm like
okay no that's pretty steady i was like oh no
you're talking about painting oh no this is the
hand i paint with and it's just a rock steady
level hand it's just straight flat like it's
like a freeze frame yeah Oh, Colin, I have a
question in that regard. With your experience
in the U .S., have you ever bumped into like
any tabletop guys who are like the kind of like
general pattern -esque American bravado, like,
hoorah, like I'm the best player in the world?
Or is that more of a stereotype for Americans?
Not like seriously, like, you know, me and Samara,
you know, we're having, you know, good natured,
like, you know, let's put them up. Come on, let's
go. You know, stuff like that, but never. I've
never met anyone who, like, is, you know, honest
to God. Like, yeah, you suck. You suck. You're
bad. I'm going to beat you. It's interesting
that the mild -mannered Canadians are getting
the most strays in this episode. I'm like, oh.
Yeah. Sorry. Sorry, Canada bros. Maybe it's good
elsewhere in Canada. Just, like, where I specifically
am in Alberta is, like, the Power Gamer epicenter
for some reason. It's very weird. Like, it's,
like, gotcha supreme. i i will say that the first
game of warhammer i ever played was against a
fella who a fella that was in my friend group
i wouldn't say he was a friend he was in the
friend group who was the only guy like i knew
that played warhammer was getting into it so
we offered to play a game like yeah i'll play
a game and he very conveniently left out several
important rules which to a newcomer are not obvious
like when you blow up a transport that doesn't
just kill everyone in it He very conveniently
did not tell me that, so my battle plan was out
the window. He very conveniently left out the
fact that deep striking, you know, just isn't
always a good idea. Sometimes leaving, you know,
getting the guys behind the enemy line is just
feeding them into the meat grinder. You know,
didn't inform me of what, you know, like strength
versus toughness, what that really meant. When
Eldred soloed 20 Khorne Berserkers, he lost that
fight, by the way. He did take down six of them.
He did take down six of them. He went down swinging.
Well, not to add another Canadian under the bus,
but I distinctly remember my first game of Magic
the Gathering getting some pretty strong cards
and not knowing what some of the options were
on the cards because I was being directed by
Eli. We tried to teach you how to play Magic.
And then I conveniently lost the next couple
of turns and I was like, oh, I knew this was
a thing. I could have won the game. But then
again, I'm just being a whinge bag. where i lost
my first game of magic where eli's persecuting
me um yeah we uh we still have people yelling
wah in uh around here in our stores i i i i assume
that that's would not really you probably wouldn't
see that in the tokyo store I assume. That's
what I had experienced at least. Do we know the
nationality of the guy who made news for being
like, the nails are biting, the nails are biting?
I don't know, but that guy's a hero. He's shadowboxing
in front of your opponent. That's good. I met
him in real life in Pittsburgh, actually. Really?
That guy? We worked out and we played Old World.
That's sick. Another crazy Canadian. Was he playing
Warriors of Chaos? Oh, no, we were borrowing
some armies because he hasn't played Old World
before. We played Dark Elves versus Goblins,
and the Dark Elves prevailed. Malekith number
one. Not the true Phoenix, too. Okay, pal. Okay,
Mr. AOS. You know exactly what the price was
for AOS. Yeah. Before we have another incident
between the... the Western powers of Canada and
the US over disagreement. Saint Wagons from Discord.
I first learned about Warhammer through a video
on the death court of Krieg. Neat. And then left
it for a couple years. Then a friend brought
it up one day and I thought... Oh, what's the
harm of a second look? Three days later, I info
-dumped the entire War of Heaven to Indometrious
Crusade and currently have Knights, Sisters,
Tyranids, Clowns, Harlequins, and most recently,
Soulblight. Wow. That's quite an escalation right
there. Pretty cool. Very in keeping with an addiction
with someone who's just like... oh that's not
bad and then like three days later it's like
i need money for minis i need it i don't care
if it's her college tuition she doesn't need
it for another 10 years i need to buy minis like
that's how it starts have you gotten much into
the books julius um yeah actually i've i've tried
to keep up at the very least with some reading
um Yeah, you know, I read. I read. I can read.
I can read. Yeah, yeah. I can read. Words are
nice. You're beating me on that front. I've just
been testing. Bro, what do you mean? Just keep
getting it right somehow. You're just like going
through it. It's like somehow you just unnailed
the entirety of the 14 universe just by testing.
You're there with every page on a dartboard and
you go. I keep passing my real life in bone safes.
I was just asking because I was wondering what
your first Warhammer book was. That actually...
God, what was it? I think it was probably an
anthology series, actually. That was a period
of time where the only thing that was available
on Amazon Japan was an audiobook. of like an
anthology series for the Horus Heresy. And it
was, I remember, I distinctly remember like the
first story that I read was the, well, read,
well, listened to was the Horus Axeman short
story. And so that was it. And so that's why
I have like a huge bias towards Horus Axeman.
I don't know what it is about him. I really love
that guy from like head to toe, which is also
like disgusting for most people. i think from
like the first book i read was the first heretic
comes to mind pretty fast there's a good no no
fear um and i i do like myself horus rising a
horse right oh flight of the eisenstein these
are all classics these are all classics And then
they invisibly just send Collins disgusted. How
do you read some fantasy, you dumbass? You brought
me back in with the Eldar fans and now I'm tuning
back out. I'm just getting slapped around. You
know, this is horrible. Am I having fun or do
I hate it here? I can't tell. I do want to try
and get into some fantasy at some point. I think
some of the... For whatever reason, Slaves to
Darkness looks like really fast. They have some
sick models. And they're a little towards the
elite end, so they're one of the cheaper AOS
armies. Andy, should we read a couple donations?
Yes, we have a few. Let me just pop this here.
Okay, so the first one... We've got two from...
same person so the john apocalypse for two pounds
get more japan into 40k by having a nike crossover
oh nike goddess of victory oh god um this guy's
it's oh man he's asking for something incredibly
specific um for those who are are not aware or
have have fortunately not uh not entered the
guna world the gcu as it is um the what nikkei
is is it's a it's a it's a mobile game uh where
you you essentially get to watch a a woman's
bottom as she shoots uh she does target practice
by firing a gun and so the only way i would see
this is happening is just i'm just gonna get
a we can port in like an ultramarine and i just
stare at just sarah might ask just like which
is i mean hey and every time he gets a high score
he says kawaii like oh no he hits this pose it's
like i would do anything to see his face you
open salute into that yeah yeah the second one
um Do you want to read this one, Eli? Sure. Thank
you for the five. What Warhammer books would
you like to see become an anime? Elemental Council
for me. So Japanese artists I follow will start
trying Hot Blue Girls. This guy really is the
great one. Yeah, with the anime PFP as well.
It's all lining up. I would love to see an Elemental
Council anime because it's a good book. It's
the best Tao book there is. I mean, the easiest
answer is Horus Heresy because it could be an
actual series. but i like i like xenos i would
i would like to see one about the harlequins
because there's lots of nice vibrant colors you
could have some really cool like action scenes
because they're very I feel they would be a shoo
-in for an anime. But when this was mentioned,
and I'm seeing Colin coming back, it just made
me think of, remember that Halo series where
they did lots of anime? Yeah, Halo Legends, dude.
Halo Legends. So good. The samurai bit. And I
was like, oh, that'd be fun, but Warhammer. Julie,
did you watch Halo Legends then? Dude, I remember,
like, I remember the one that I watched was,
like, I distinctly remember the ODST one still.
Oh, Babysitter was a good one, yeah. Babysitter,
yeah, I do remember that. I remember, I did watch
them, I think, back in middle school, I want
to say, was when it came out, like, back then.
I haven't returned to them since. I should at
one day look up what studios made them. That
actually would be a very good one. I know. Toei
made one, and you can very much tell because
that one is just an episode of Dragon Ball Z,
but replaced Goku with Master Chief. Oh, right.
There's one that does a grab hammer, chasing
him down. That's pretty cool. But I know, I mean,
it's free on YouTube. You can just find it. Yeah.
I mean, a Tao series would be the easiest pick
because they're already in next and stuff like
that. It's already very anime -esque. focus into
that which they're not only actually anime they're
very like old chinese and japanese or british
culture i think i think this might be the most
out there pick but i would i think i might kill
for someone to make like cyberpunk edge runners
necromoda edition that would be i i just had
an idea um made me think of akira have dark mechanicum
body horror with that like i remember that when
he starts like getting like the integration of
all that the mechanical parts yeah oh no he's
becoming like a monster thingy like that would
work very well with the dark mechanicum or something
or chaos i suppose um because there is that uh
hammer and bolter show with like western style
information just doesn't quite gel it's like
usually there's not enough frames like they're
the infamous gravis like ultramarines floating
in space with like flashing guns like this could
be better quality but yeah Bit of a shame. And
we've got one more. Would you like to read this
one, Colin? Because it's at you specifically.
Sure. At Colin. Just finished Godric and Felix.
Snorri's End was the most tragic thing I've ever
heard. Audiobooks only. Yeah, that'll change
you. Kinslayer is a great book to read if you
want to put down the book and just stare at the
ceiling sad. The Pablo Escobar meme where it's
just like him and a plague, where his arms folded
in the distance. I'm doing the Blade Runner dying
on my front porch, staring at the sky. Thank
you, Nurgle's Jar. That's a silly Ysha name you
got there. Ysha in the Jar. Yeah. Shall we see
if I can find another one? I'm still going through
these. We've got a few left. Oh, this is a good
one. uh but it is uh not controversial i would
say but it's uh it's uh it's a bit cheeky this
one with the way it starts uh from saturnine
sewer gator uh i got into warhammer thanks to
a pirated copy of dawn of war soul storm oh spicy
straight into the piracy uh i like the universe
since at the time star wars felt too linear despite
its setting so I was looking for something new.
Having also been an avid reader of Tolkien, too,
at the time, also helped me make the setting
more palatable, as it's essentially dark fantasy
with sci -fi shenanigans. It gave me room to
make whatever faction of lore I want, which was
cool for high school and college -aged me. The
biggest Warhammer challenge so far is actually
gathering and collecting physical books, minis,
and things where I live, since Warhammer is still
super niche in brackets. The city I live in has
only one tabletop gaming store. Oof, I struggle.
Yeah, same here, honestly. I live in a small
city, though, so it works. I think it might be
fair to say that you live in, quote, the sticks,
Eli. Is that fair to say? I guess. I live in
the prairies. Thank you very much. What is a
prairie? Like a prairie dog? Like fields. Like
fields of wheat. Same as, like, in the Midwest.
It's not the sticks. It's just flat. there's
prairies and then there's mountains and it's
very pretty i'll have you know yeah it's like
didn't say it wasn't pretty you can get pretty
sticks not the sticks oh my gosh crazy is uh
is dawn of war even like known about in japan
i was like that was a while it was uh because
starcraft is big enough still i imagine right
Starcraft is big. Dawn of War is kind of like
Starcraft. Yeah? No, I think it's very... Dawn
of War is somewhat known. I think another thing
to note with Dawn of War was that Dawn of War,
I believe, was published by Sega, right? Yeah,
maybe, actually. Oh, yes, because Sega did Space
Marine with a tie -in of Relic, and they did,
as far as I remember, Dawn of War as well, because
Relic Entertainment was like... Yeah. So it's
like... it's somewhat known put it like that
so it's like if people are sort of a lot of the
japanese players here do very much like oh yeah
i i know of space train i know of dawn of war
or total war that's like usually the the holy
trinity i think that goes for really though anywhere
though too in a sense is that it sort of clicks
up let's see if i can share another one oh i'm
pressing the wrong buttons again So this one's
number one from BoweryLion184. I got into Warhammer
from Space Marine 2 with my friend, who then
held me hostage with lore drops, and I merely
wanted to be the bugs that eat the blueberries.
Very nice. We've got an ultra -means hater in
here. I will say, because you mentioned earlier
on about lore and translations, I do manual subs
for all my videos, so I get the automatic translation
from Google. in your opinion are the google language
translations pretty bad or okay because i don't
know what the quality is on my subtitles in that
regard so i'm just like i write it manually space
down let's go japan auto uh spanish auto and
i'm like i don't know if this is terrible or
not but it's going up there i people use them
I think so that's the thing is like so definitely
don't sort of sell them short in that sense a
lot of people here sort of like oh I I just want
to know like a little bit more about 40k lore
um I I guess we're just putting up the subs and
just seeing what we can do and so yeah there's
definitely a little bit of a viewer base uh there
um for I think I think for myself, I haven't,
the one which is, is, is I absolutely refuse
it. I'll do subs. And I think that's, that's
fine. But the, the auto dub feature that YouTube,
one thing I will not. I've heard bad things about
that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've gotten. i've a lot
of people have complained about it because i
they just turned it on without telling anyone
so i was like i didn't know that was a thing
my bad everyone they sent an email a few weeks
before being like hey by the way make sure you
turn and like i've had to turn mine off several
times because it re -ticked itself i'm like off
go away and i and i remember uh speaking to rogue
hobbies and just like by the way you've got auto
dubbing and it was really funny because it was
just her voice in spanish and french and stuff
and then she deleted them all and then she put
new videos up with the option turned off and
i'm like you're still spanish and she's like
oh my god and i'd like walk her through time
off that again and it's such a thing i understand
their perspective of like if we auto dub dub
it reaches more people but then I'm also one
of those people who when I watch like international
media I want to hear it as it was intended to
be heard I want to like just put the subtitles
on whether it's like Pan's Labyrinth or if it's
an anime I'm like I want to like or the or when
I play the Yakuza games I just I play the Japanese
dub and I just read the subtitles because oh
even though the the new games are like hey Danny
Trejo's in it and George Takei it's like okay
but like i don't like most of the cast because
it's just like a lot of californian guys going
oh it's me it's me hey hey there my name's itchy
barn how's it going i'm like why are you going
every time you say a word oh i don't like it
that can be pretty painful i don't i'm not really
big i'm not being an anime anymore but that can
be pretty painful i like i've seen i've seen
clips of what my hero academia sounds like dubbed
where's anyone watch that show it's like i couldn't
believe what i was hearing it just sounds so
abysmally like terrible because whatever chris
sabbath is being all might it's good and then
everyone else talks it's like oh god he's like
what is this um i think what i think what's fun
about that is also it kind of works on the flip
side as well where like in here we get japanese
stubs of like foreign stuff right so it's like
so like people aren't aren't familiar with like
i think like the fast example i can give is like
um like peter cullen is is not an optimist prime
here which is like it's such an l um but god
bless uh the actual actor that they got for it
there's a there's an actor um you might know
him from he did uh what was it called galactic
heroes i think um i don't know if you guys know
that series um but he was he is he is a fairly
decent substitute so they they tried to get someone
but that's the problem it's like sometimes you
don't you don't get that substitute for peter
cullen you know what i'm saying so yeah because
with the whole like dubbing and like because
i occasionally want to go on audible because
i get like i like to get books on audible if
i can for warhammer i'll see like oh there's
a german dub of like paul of cadia or whatever
but i don't see many other language like options
i don't know if that's just what i can see or
what's available but the only trouble i think
is that like games workshop is notoriously bad
at making good decisions for their like audience
base and i feel like they'll never be like a
a robust like i don't think they'd ever put the
effort into being like all of our cat back catalog
of black library will just convert into different
languages like even when you look on their official
site say would you like to buy the audiobooks
at like five times the price of them on audible
say why would i ever use this website this is
rubbish and i i feel like it's a bit of a shame
that it then falls to the international community
used to like grassroots their own way of like
getting people into the hobby in that regard
um but again i'm doing my best with subtitles
it's good fun yeah uh very good andy i uh i have
nothing else to say i i'm out of questions i
uh i actually got a question if you okay because
like so because for me um i'm just super curious
it's in the sense of you guys are all i i would
say um to my knowledge at the very least a little
bit more well -versed in the lore side of things
correct so that's just sort of it's just just
a little bit you know um and i would be super
curious to know so like because we just had that
question when it came to sort of the adaptation
of say something like from warhammer into anime
as a whole just to just to sort of like in a
way revisit but i want to kind of like broaden
out that question a little bit do you guys think
that um a story like 40k would translate well
into sort of the japanese style of storytelling
so say you get like everyone you get anime right
you have your classic like you know like all
these sort of like mannerisms the way it's visually
told do you think that's something that would
work well for for something like 40k or something
that's something that just any games workshop
ip as a whole i would I would say 40 K could,
because it's such a big universe that you could
make basically whatever genre you want. And,
you know, at the end you just show like a symbol
of corn or something to tie it all together.
Yeah. Until then you couldn't make it anything
like some Necromunda books. They're just like
cyberpunk dystopia stories. They have nothing
to do with the galaxy at large, but it's still
a Warhammer book. Yeah. Yeah. Like, I know, I
feel like that's in some ways kind of a cop out
because it's basically saying, Yeah, just make
whatever story you want and then give it a Warhammer
skin, but the setting is made in a way to encourage
that. That's part of the draw to it. Painting
your own guys, make them whatever you want. It
is partly encouraged to do that whatever the
hell you want. I think some factions would work
and some factions it would be harder to do. I
think Tau and Eldar, you can make enemies around
pretty easily, especially Eldar. I'm not sure
why. I think they would just fit an art style.
and storytelling aesthetic like that. And then
Tao a little bit. And then the more you get into
the more grimdarky stuff, I guess, like Space
Marines and Imperium and even Orcs, it might
be getting harder and harder to kind of... I
think they're goofy enough. You could. It's just...
I guess it depends on the perspective. You can
do an Orc perspective book where they're goofy
and silly. But it'd be a lot harder to do maybe
a human's perspective on an orc. I don't think
the grimdark thing would keep it from getting
translated. Yeah. One thing I was going to say
was I think that nowadays the setting is less
grimdark. I think that's a problem when I think
of things like Tetsuo the Iron Man and Akira
and like... some some media that i've seen from
japan there's some really like grimy and gritty
and grim like franchises and and films and animes
and stuff so like i think that would be very
enticing for a lot of japanese fans but the the
hobby's kind of getting away from that angle
it's a bit more clean it's a bit more you know
prim and proper like almost uh world of warcraft
esked when i think of like the koteya's artwork
they did for him in his new book and i'm like
The old one was better. We had like tubes sticking
out of his head and it was like kind of 90s grim
aesthetic or 80s grim aesthetic, I suppose. I
don't know. It would be. And again, I've heard
rumors that the new still being produced Warhammer
TV show is possibly going to be set during the
scouring. which I don't know how much of that
is valid. I'm still not sure if I'm convinced
that this TV show is happening. GW has said that
they have no control of it. So they're like,
we're in the dark too because we don't know what's
going on. We have no control over the IP. It's
Amazon's thing. And yeah, so it's kind of like
hard to tell like, oh, is this going to like,
is it going to be an Eisenhorn thing? Is it going
to be Horace Heresy? Is it going to be the scouring?
Because scouring would make sense of like the
new books are coming out. It's that. that sweet
spot of, it's not the glory days of pre heresy.
It's not the 41st millennium where it's a bit
more like there isn't as much of a structured
timeline where it's still ongoing. The scouring
might be the perfect place to be like, Hey, it's
like game of Thrones almost where it's, it's
a grim setting in the universe. It's got the
potential to be quite a long series without going
on indefinitely. We'll see how it goes. But again,
like i don't really have any knowledge about
how for example in japan certain ips are compared
to their western counterparts like i assume star
wars does okay but i don't know if it's like
big like it isn't in the west and if if that's
like a corollary if that would be like a good
like yardstick to measure the potential for warhammer
because it's like sci -fi or would something
like game of thrones be more apt but then is
that very popular and like i don't know like
i don't know how you would gauge it to an extent
yeah it's a tough call on that one i mean like
star wars itself is a whole other like sort of
like struggle story uh at least here um i mean
for for us overseas right we got we got stuff
like star wars visions um so that's sort of like
you get a little bit of lens it's like oh this
is sort of maybe japan's take on it and it's
very much and 40k fits this niche as well where
if you know you know you know but the question
is just do Does the household know? Does the
people sitting in front of the TVs know? That's
where it gets a little more difficult, you know?
I think, like, Star Wars is interesting in that
sense because Star Wars, the prequel series are
not a thing here, right? Like, the actual originals,
yeah. That's where General Grievous is. Yeah,
I know. It's so cool. the most anime character
a fine addition to my collection runs off a building
um but for whatever reason here people people
and this is where i'm gonna i'm gonna get like
three people leaving the car right away um the
most popular series here is the sequel trilogy
Oh no. There's like, there's just, yeah. Oh my
goodness. The Japan star Wars situation is crazy.
But like, yeah, there's, it's like, it's, I don't
know what it is. It might be just because just
how. uh prevalent disney is here and how much
it's heavily marked like like disneyland is is
right there next to tokyo just for reference
and that's not a star wars ride but like i say
i see people here and it's like there are like
hardcore nerds which are like oh god what's like
what what is going on in i remember i saw i remember
like when nine came out there was like a youtube
video from like a popular japanese youtuber that
came out that was just like what did i just watch
and that was just what it was i know which is
really good um but like yeah when it comes to
marketing it's all sequel stuff here i don't
know what it is i don't know what it is it's
just a thing yeah so do you think a warhammer
anime uh would work i would i would love for
it to happen um i think it's one of those tricky
things in production where the logistics of it
is probably a lot harder than i i want but the
concept is it could be great um i would love
to see like i think the i always had this idea
in my head where i think like sort of and and
this once again this goes back to the mecca bias
for me right it's a huge mecca bias obviously
i think tao is a pretty like who's not gonna
love like something that's like sunrise made
that just has like a reptide with full like thruster
porn on it i would be so down for that but like
um i think like off the top like just you can
do like more sort of um like go back to like
the 1990s stuff right um like i'd love like to
see like something sort of like um like i think
iron warriors would actually be a great option
for that sorry going back to space marines but
like iron warriors with like metal like you can
put some like just put like a metal soundtrack
over that and then like do like a sort of like
bubblegum crisis kind of x like pistons everywhere
you know like you know when you get like the
anime likes doing this stuff when you get the
piston like doing this and the steam comes out
you know they have that i can definitely see
stuff like that um but yeah i like i had that
there was like that or like you could do the
steam as well for like butcher's nails i think
that would be really cool like show like the
nails like full power and they're like kind of
like putting out steam in the back yeah it's
like a transformation scene of angron becoming
demon primark and like an anime yeah the horns
coming out and his face changing and i mean some
of the hammer and bolter stuff i think if they
made that you know more long running would fit
the vibe now they would need to give it more
than you know two frames a minute well there
was that that one death guard episode where they
made the most they made the most disgusting animation
i've ever seen in my life it's like a plague
marine turning into like a thing that eats a
thing and eats the thing it's like pulsing and
there's like stuff coming out of it anyway this
is grotesque and i love it i think you could
do an assassin you could totally do an officio
assassin storyline and animate that would that
would be cool i think that would work really
well Although I think, too, like you said, Julius,
it's a little earlier, though. I think it is
a thing in America, too. It's not quite yet enough
of a household name to justify a lot of that
stuff, I feel like, at least in the Isaac Ames
workshop. Because even with the mystical Henry
Cavill show that may or may not exist, and Schrodinger's
Henry Cavill warhead. Schrodinger's Cavill, yeah.
like even with that like most most people i know
like personally only know what warhammer is because
when they ask what do you do for a living like
well i talk about my toy soldiers let's go so
but no before i like even before i got into it
like most people didn't have a damn clue unless
they had happened to play warhammer which you're
playing it you're obviously going to know what
it is but like the average person at least in
the states too doesn't have much uh knowledge
on it a good anime would like tons of people
would watch that in all the hemispheres too like
everyone loves anime around the whole world like
i don't know gw just hates risk taking even if
it would even if the payoff is $1 trillion billion.
Well, yeah, of course. They said video games
weren't a worthwhile investment in 2015. 2015.
They did a Konami. What do you mean? What do
you mean? I would be ill not to mention this.
So actually bouncing off of that, Eli, I believe
Warhammer... did actually do one thing which
is pretty interesting which was if you guys remember
um i think it was a year or two back they released
a death watch cinematic short um that one was
made by a studio called safe house uh safe house
is a tokyo -based studio so it actually is a
japanese studio and i believe they partner with
bandai actually on that one which is really interesting
so i guess there's a whole thing to say yeah
there's there is slivers of hope there uh that
something could happen they got they got some
feet on the ground but the question is just you
know it's like are we gonna get like you know
it's like the question is are we gonna get like
something that's chainsaw man quality aot quality
that's the question which yeah we have to start
asking it's like do we get that or we get one
punch man season three like bandai also has that
um amazon connection where a while back in london
they did like a it was a gundam movie premiere
but it wasn't it was it was a smash of all these
like new episodes of a tv series they kind of
like stick they'd stuck it together and they
did like a movie premiere and it was like the
last episode was the first episode and they cut
bits out so like i went to watch and i was like
i have no idea what's going on but it was like
okay well that's interesting because they obviously
like partnered with i think amazon was the platform
where you can watch the show So if it's like
the trifecta of like, you've got Bandai, you've
got Games Workshop, you've got Amazon, maybe
they can get it working. You know who would be
a perfect anime character? Aramon. Aramon would
be a perfect anime character. Is that because
you could do a One Piece style thousand episode
shenanigans where he's trying to reverse the
Rubicon? He can go on a million different adventures.
He's like a scheming, very serious guy. like
i could hear his voice in japanese it would totally
it would totally work i could totally hear it
lucy's the eternal would also be awesome in anime
i think he would oh man i think my dream cast
and just like on this i would kill for so much
to get uh the uh the voice actor for dio yeah
i would go for him to be like karn or something
oh yeah who would he fit the most Honestly, I
think I might go in for Orokin. Oh, man. Actually,
Necrons would also be an awesome anime story.
It would? Yeah. Yeah, I can pick all four Chaos
champions as anime characters. We gotta remake
Dio versus Jotaro, but it's... No, it's... No,
fuck. Imhotek versus Helbrecht. Yeah, that'd
be cool. I can see the four champions of Chaos
as Jojo villains, now that I think about it.
I have an idea. It's insane, but bear with me.
We get Studio Ghibli. Make one about a watcher
in the dark from the Dark Angels. This little
guy in his robes with his little sword going
around the rock. That'd be fun. That'd be funny.
Yeah, and seeing his perspective looking up to
Asriel. Silly watcher. That could be funny. That's
like... That could be a Ghibli film. it will
work it's like i i don't know why my like my
mind straight went to when you said jb i straight
went to gray with the fireflies so it's like
a really bad they go depressing when they want
to like oh yeah so it's like i'm just like imagine
like the washington just like comes out and the
entire like The Space Marine Squad is just dead.
Or it's just a bunch of Cadian orphans. Like,
oh god. They're just looking up and they're just
seeing the Blackstone Fortress holding hands
as it's about to impact and kill everyone. Oh
no. It's harder for me to imagine like, I don't
know, someone like Marnes Calgar or like Dante.
It's harder for me to imagine them in an anime
than it is characters like Lucius. Marnius came
kind of close in his comic where he rips the
head off a Lord of Skull. He's got that energy.
He's got that dog in him. I guess other than
that, is there anything else we should cover
or should we get through the last donations and
call it a day? We've been going a good hour and
45. We've got to keep Julius forever. Hey, it's
four hours. Let's keep going. What time is it?
I guess it's becoming morning now. It is morning,
so yeah, we're just about to hit 8. Yeah, this
guy joined the call at what, like 5 .30 a .m.?
Yeah, we're doing great. Thank you very much.
Thank you, sir. No, this was a lot of fun. Thanks
for having me. It was awesome to have you. Great
to have you. We've only got a few donations,
so let's go through these. I'll start us off
from Joe Pippin for $10. Thank you very much.
One of the reasons I got into Warhammer because
the Emperor basically cut rid of human racism
and replaced it with alien racism. Yep. Also,
I found Luton 09 vids on Primarchs and Space
Elves. Yeah. The one thing that the Emperor did,
passing the buck for intolerance. We're going
across species lines. This is a loophole. We've
got two from Donkey Man. One for Colin, one for
Eli. Is this me? I think the only sub movies
I've watched are Passion of the Christ and the
French version of Brotherhood of the Wolf. I
wasn't ready for that. What language do you speak?
Wow. I mean, check out any Guillermo del Toro
movie because a lot of that, even the new Frankenstein
is good. It has a bit of subtitles. I think it's
Dutch or Belgian sailors at the beginning and
then it's like English. And again, I think it
was $2. Sinan -style anime of Gottrick and Felix.
Wow. Sinan? I don't know what that means. You
could do a Gottrick -style anime, but it's in
the style of One Punch Man. With him chopping
them up. Very good. Very good. And again, thank
you very much, Julius, for joining us today.
And check out Legion W on YouTube if you want
to see me and Julius. And other than that, we'll
see all of you next time. Bye, everybody. Bye.