A Few More Starter Set Battles — and We’re Officially Full of Warhammer for a While
Another round with Antek’s starter set
Today we squeezed in a few more games using Antek’s starter set, and honestly, it was exactly the kind of hobby session we like most: quick setup, a couple of rematches, some immediate “okay, now let’s try that again, but better” energy, and just enough chaos on the table to keep things entertaining.
This wasn’t some grand tournament report or a deeply analytical breakdown of every activation and dice roll. It was more one of those very real hobby days where we simply kept playing because the box was already open, the minis were on the table, and one game naturally turned into several.
The classic post-weekend feeling
By the end of it, Stas summed it up perfectly: after this weekend, we’ve probably had enough Warhammer to last us at least a few days.
And honestly? That’s a good sign.
There’s a very specific kind of hobby fatigue that only appears after a really successful run of games. Not the bad kind, where you’re burned out — more the satisfying kind where your brain is still replaying turns, charges, mistakes, lucky rolls, and “we should try this next time” ideas, but your body is telling you to maybe sit down somewhere far away from a tape measure for an evening.
From playing games to planning the next excuse to play more games
Naturally, the conversation drifted almost immediately from the games we had just played to what we could do next.
Stas brought up a funny and slightly alarming comparison of box value: according to Gemini, Orks got done dirty in their battalion box, while the Noise Marines apparently received a set on the scale of the Bretonnian and Khemri starter boxes. That is a very specific kind of Games Workshop economy discourse, and exactly the sort of thing that appears once everyone has finished moving toy soldiers around and starts theorycrafting future purchases.
The actually good news hidden in that discussion was much more practical: for roughly the per-person cost of an average battalion box, we could probably organize a small introductory weekend of games at the 500–750 point level.
And that idea has a lot going for it.
Small games are one of the best ways to get people playing quickly. Less list stress, less painting pressure, less table clutter, and more actual learning. You get enough toys on the board to feel like you’re playing proper Warhammer, but not so much that the whole day disappears into deployment and rule lookups.
Why these smaller sessions work so well
Starter-set games and lower-point battles have a nice rhythm to them. You can finish one game and immediately feel like trying again. Swap sides, change one decision, test a different approach, and suddenly you’ve learned more in an afternoon than from reading army-building takes online for a week.
That was very much the vibe today. A few more games, a few more lessons, and a nice reminder that even a modest setup can carry an entire hobby day if the mood is right.
So while we may indeed be temporarily saturated with Warhammer after this weekend, we’re also now dangerously close to talking ourselves into a 500–750 point intro weekend sometime soon.
Which, let’s be honest, is how these things always start.
Final thoughts
A few more starter-set battles turned into exactly what they needed to be: relaxed, fun, low-commitment games that still left us with plenty to talk about afterward. That’s a win in our book.
Now we rest. Probably.
Until the next “just one more game” happens.