Robert Evans

Like it's fucking wild.

Yeah.

So whether or not you think that's cool depends on your attitude towards the arms industry.

Again, you can think about that however you want, but it represents a kind of awkward problem for Games Workshop.

The fact that stuff like this is happening is evidence of the insane degree of cultural penetration that Warhammer has achieved.

But having real weapons made in the image of your video game or of your game weapons can be problematic too, right?

Right, right.

Like that, that can be a problem.

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So as I kind of brought up before we went to break, the wide popularity of Warhammer has increasingly forced problematic confrontations, both between sort of how much people like it and how many many things they want to stick Warhammer on and what the company Games Workshop may want Warhammer stuck on and between like groups of fans themselves.

And about four years ago, Spain's largest Warhammer tournament let a guy play while wearing Nazi paraphernalia.

And I believe his army was kind of like Nazi themed too.

Like it was like a Wehrmacht themed guard army or something, if I'm remembering correctly.

But he was like wearing Nazi shit and he'd entered the tournament under the name Austrian Painter.

Like real fucking subtle, my dude.

And people weren't thrilled about this.

I'm going to quote from an article in Polygon.

GT Talavera tournament organizers gave comment to tabletop wargaming site SpikyBit, stating that the club repudiates the Nazi mentality in all its aspects.