Waypoints 54 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Warhammer

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🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 112 minutes

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It’s been a regular feature on Waypoint’s streams this year, but still we wonder, how deep does Rob’s love for Warhammer 40k really go? He’s gathered a cadre of fellow Warhammer 40k enthusiasts, including Motherboard’s managing editor Emanuel Maiberg, staff writer Matthew Gault, and special guest: Nextlander’s own Vinny Caravella! They journey through each-other’s Warhammer origin stories, discuss their favorite bits of lore, and agree that the tabletop game is too much for them, but hey at least there’s a ton of video games to check out.

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0:00.0	Oh hello, you found waypoints where the waypoint staff and friends take a break to nerd
0:24.0	out and deep dive on the culture, art and entertainment that's been inspiring and
0:27.8	provoking us lately. Three words that I definitely associate with Warhammer 40k. Gather around the table
0:35.8	this week for an improv to group therapy session about our degrees of Warhammer 40k habit that we're
0:45.2	nursing. We have Motherboard Managing Editor, Emmanuel Myberg. Hey, hello, good to be here.
0:51.5	Motherboard Writer Matthew Galt. Hello, hello. And next landers Vinny Caravella. Hi, thanks for having me.
1:01.7	Thanks for coming out. So I guess I'll start this out by like putting a little bit framing on
1:08.3	this conversation. I guess this all starts with Emmanuel making a dubious impulse purchase a few
1:12.5	weeks ago. Emmanuel went back and bought the collection of Dawn of War 1. We're Hammer 40k,
1:20.4	Dawn of War 1, the Relic RTS series from a long time ago. I was like, what was going on when
1:27.8	Warhammer went when Dawn of War came out? I was either in high school or I just started college,
1:34.1	but like it was it was a while ago. And that was the first Warhammer RTS that Relic made.
1:41.0	But I think, you know, stepping from that curious decision, a bunch of us started talking about
1:47.3	how that game feels like a pivot point in our relationship with Warhammer and how a bunch of us
1:53.2	have ended up being despite having never been Warhammer players, never having like indulgent
2:01.1	tabletop lifestyle with that series. We've all ended up becoming weird Warhammer nerds.
2:08.3	Emmanuel, I guess I'll start off with you. What gives with the need to return to Warhammer?
2:14.4	And why did you feel like it was time that we all sort of gather in a circle and pass our
2:21.0	feelings back and forth about Warhammer? So I think you have screenshot of a steam receipt of me
2:28.2	buying that collection. And that's when you were looped into the struggle. But the struggle begins
2:34.0	long before that. Basically it goes like, I mean, I know that on Waypoint, you guys play a lot
2:42.2	of indie games and deck builders and stuff like that. And that has been keeping you fed. But Matthew
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