Play Archives – Warhammer Conference

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Playing with Suits of power armor: hobbying as a Suitsian game

In a 2025 post courting retail partners, Games Workshop boasts of their range of 14 different miniature-based ‘games systems’ (GW 2025); the post also mentions how their hobby materials (e.g. Citadel Paints) are the ‘ideal complimentary product’ to said games. Here, I argue that GW is wrong: this hobby material isn’t merely complimentary to, but …

The Emperor’s man-children? Warhammer 40,000 as adult men’s toy play

Miniaturing, with its roots in other historically men-dominated spheres such as military history and tabletop role-playing, is largely a men’s pastime in terms of demographics (e.g. Körner & Schütz, 2021), making it an intriguing phenomenon to study from the perspective of men’s studies. This is doubly true with Warhammer 40,000: as a game it features …