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Dammit Mandrake! said:
Hey guys, I had a question about 40k to ask you guys.

I am not too interested in playing 40k. Maybe I'll play someday, I'd like to try it out because it does seem fun, if expensive. But I am very interested in learning more of the lore and getting a better understanding of the overall scenario. Do the tabletop books provide this? And are there other supplements that also fill in details? I would like to have physical books and materials to accomplish this as opposed to sitting on a wiki for a few months.

What is the best way to learn about the world and lore of 40k if you are not as interested in playing the game?
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Campaign and rulebooks are half lore half rules. If you want pure lore read the novels. You can find the horus heresy black books and imperial armour's in varies achieves on the internet.


This is literally the only channel that needs to be watched.
 
Love_Machine011 said:
Campaign and rulebooks are half lore half rules. If you want pure lore read the novels. You can find the horus heresy black books and imperial armour's in varies achieves on the internet.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zmZcIX5PEyo
This is literally the only channel that needs to be watched.
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Cool! Thanks. I'll fire up youtube-dl and start saving this stuff. I really wish more YouTubers would sell a DVD or something.

Anyway, be safe when the bombs drop, friends. Save some memes for your kids to enjoy.
 
Dammit Mandrake! said:
Hey guys, I had a question about 40k to ask you guys.

I am not too interested in playing 40k. Maybe I'll play someday, I'd like to try it out because it does seem fun, if expensive. But I am very interested in learning more of the lore and getting a better understanding of the overall scenario. Do the tabletop books provide this? And are there other supplements that also fill in details? I would like to have physical books and materials to accomplish this as opposed to sitting on a wiki for a few months.

What is the best way to learn about the world and lore of 40k if you are not as interested in playing the game?
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My recommendation would be the core rules book. As others have said it's a a mixture of lore and game rules for playing the game, but roughly half of it covers lore and enough general information to get you up to speed on 40k as a whole. The non-rules side of the book is almost 200 pages of lore for the multiple factions, pretty good art and random hobbysim/army displays. It's a pretty good introduction if you want something physical and it doubles as something you can use later to start playing at some point.

The downside is that it's more expensive than any of the codices/supplement books out there, let alone any of the novels. It doesn't go as in-depth as them either, so if you're particularly interested in any one faction then you'll be disappointed.
 
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Dammit Mandrake! said:
Because YouTube won't be accessible after the EMPs go off in 2028 and I would like to be able to read escapist paraphernalia by candlelight in my dung hut in the future.

Is a lot of this stuff from novels and "expanded universe" types of things like Trek and Star Wars?
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Old hardbound copies of the core book from prior editions are cheap and easy to come by, and are generally great repositories of lore and art, even if the don't include some of the very most recent lore updates.
 
Since angron is confirmed to be the next up. I just wanted to say I hope they keep him like the old art.
Angrondemon.jpg
 
Dammit Mandrake! said:
Hey guys, I had a question about 40k to ask you guys.

I am not too interested in playing 40k. Maybe I'll play someday, I'd like to try it out because it does seem fun, if expensive. But I am very interested in learning more of the lore and getting a better understanding of the overall scenario. Do the tabletop books provide this? And are there other supplements that also fill in details? I would like to have physical books and materials to accomplish this as opposed to sitting on a wiki for a few months.

What is the best way to learn about the world and lore of 40k if you are not as interested in playing the game?
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Some loretubers are decent though its a case of pick your poison
Luetin is probably the best in terms of depth and knowledge but his videos are long as fuck
Arch has been doing it the longest and can sometimes rival luetin but can be an annoying prick and get a decent bit wrong
OneMindSyndicate and Majorkill just reads the wiki in 15-20 mins so pick the one you find less annoying
There's somewhat new one called Adeptus Ridiculous where a oldfag tries to teach a newfag some shit, kinda reads the wiki like the above two (and have some really cringe memes) but they do go into how some factions play on the tabletop.

As for books, I kinda think starting with the HH is a bit hit or miss when trying to get into 40k, the first 3 books do a decent job setting up things but the more you go into it the more background knowledge you need and the books stop following a chronological order and start jumping around in order (and there's like 50+ books in the series now).
I say start with Ciaphas Cain or Eisenhorn if you want to try reading 40k novels. Some people also suggest Gaunt's Ghosts but I kind of think that you need a bit of background about the guard first, and the first Guant book is a bit underwhelming (and this is coming from someone who likes the Sharpe books).
 
Dammit Mandrake! said:
Hey guys, I had a question about 40k to ask you guys.

I am not too interested in playing 40k. Maybe I'll play someday, I'd like to try it out because it does seem fun, if expensive. But I am very interested in learning more of the lore and getting a better understanding of the overall scenario. Do the tabletop books provide this? And are there other supplements that also fill in details? I would like to have physical books and materials to accomplish this as opposed to sitting on a wiki for a few months.

What is the best way to learn about the world and lore of 40k if you are not as interested in playing the game?
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While there are the usual recommendations of books for the series (Inquisitor series by Dan Abnett, or Gaunt's Ghosts), a very overshadowed one that gives you a good starting insight into Space Marines without the need to go through a human lens is the Ragnar Blackmane series.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Ragnar Blackmane series.
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You can always rely on Space Wolves for entertaining dialogue.
"Yeah, Leman Russ actually hated that super-sacred weapon you're after and tried to get rid of it by tossing it a planet's moon one time after getting really, really drunk. Regretted it when he sobered up and ordered us to search for it. Good times."
 
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