Robert Evans

Yeah, they're abducted child soldiers who are like genetically enhanced so they can go crack down on rebellions against the state.

They're not like it's not a like it's like it's a fun game.

There's a lot of like the lore is interesting and the models are cool, but you're not supposed to think, boy, I wish I lived in that world.

That would be silly.

he's already got a strategic stockpile of trend and like butter ready to go yeah yeah that's the first step towards having space marines should just let rfk cook up like whatever kind of like mammal penis based potion he can to to invent the extra organs that that make you a super soldier fuck he's america's first like first neo apothecary that's right that's right yeah he's he's he's the beginning of the techno barbarian tribes

So the very first edition of Warhammer 40,000, which was called Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Traitor, it was a tabletop war game published first in 1987.

Before 87, its manufacturer, Games Workshop, published a wide array of board games and miniatures, most of which were focused around fantasy wargaming and role-playing.

Tabletop war games have a long history.

The ancient Greeks, we're talking thousands of years ago, had a game called Patea where players would simulate phalanx combat using game pieces and some sort of rule system.

I don't think we actually have the rules, but I don't actually know that much about it.

How many dice did they need?

Yeah, what kind of dice?

We know the Romans had D20s, I mean, theoretically, right?

That's true.

That's true.

But yeah, and there was like it was for military training.

It was to help people who were going to be like officers.

I think sometimes figure like learn the ropes and whatnot and learn to think strategically.

The Romans being Romans plagiarized the Greeks and made their own war games, which were similar but often much more complicated.

The earliest form of chess, which is a tabletop war game, was created in India in like the 600s, I think.