Welcome to Story Break, The Writers Room Podcast where Three Hollywood professionals have an hour, a grim dark hour,

turn a grim dark idea into a grim dark story.

I am the Supreme Emperor who got injured once Freddie Wong. I am Groll-Dud Boulder-Cutter,

ork of the Ork Legion's and I shall do stuff. Taste blood? I shall taste... know do stuff I shall taste oh that's actually an ogre name darn and I'm on a fantasy name generator for ogres and I got an ogre name

Groll dug boulder cutter and that's who I am this episode. What happened to will? I'm assuming you've read about the orks. I knew you like the orks. This is Matt Arnold. Yeah, I know Warhammer kind of. I'm excited about this one. I can't think about it.. I'm just so excited about doing Warhammer right now.

Like, lambs to a slaughter, we newbies, armed with approximately 36 minutes of YouTube, lore summaries are going to attempt Warhammer 40K.

We, the Lour Masters, servants of the Emperium, are the tips of the spear. We dive into the hardest stories and break them for the glory of the empire.

Before we enter the story, can we explain why this is even popped up?

Matt, can you take us through your personal journey

of becoming the whitest man alive?

For those that don't know Warhammer.

Warhammer is Miniatures tabletop war game

that's been around since like 1980 created in the UK by Games Workshop

huge company doing very well now and yeah it's I mean that's essentially what it is a miniature's War game

you've probably seen it little miniature men that you put on a table.

Mostly men now they're sometimes a woman finally. Yeah you fight on the table with a bunch of

miniatures and so there are essentially like two stories Warhammer or two like genres.

There's the fantasy which was the first one and then there's a more popular

40K which is their sci-fi universe and that's what we're going to tackle today.

So I got into it because I started getting into miniature painting for my board games and I kept avoiding warhammer because it's like I mean if you get into miniature painting you don't do warhammer that like I don't even know what you're doing like the pinnacle of miniature things. That's like getting into

jazz and being like you know who I'd never listening to this Miles Davis cat?

Yeah. That's like being obsessed with fretless bass players and not knowing who

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