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I’m Eric Molinsky.  \nIt’s just after 10am on a Saturday. I’m at a game shop called The Brooklyn Strategist. Long time listeners might remember this is where I learned how to play D&D and Magic The Gathering. Today, I’m watching a Warhammer tournament.  \nThere are a lot of different games in the Warhammer universe. The most famous one is Warhammer 40K. It takes place around 40,000 years in the future, and that’s what everyone is playing here today.  \nThere are about a dozen tables, with two opponents at each table. Now, there are huge, competitive championship tournaments out there for Warhammer. This one is fairly casual. Everyone is just playing rounds against the person standing across from them.  \nEveryone is taking out their dice, their laptops, and most importantly, figurines – armies of tiny, hand painted warriors. Now the figures are gray when you buy them. The players have to paint them. You actually lose points if you play the game with unpainted miniatures. And the sculpting on these figures is amazing. There is so much detail. And the players are placing them carefully on mats within these little plastic sets that look like the ruins of bombed out cities.  \nThere are so many different armies you can choose to play--Orks, Blood Angels, Space Marines, World Eaters, Chaos Daemons. And these tiny warriors all look bad ass. I asked some of the players to describe the armies they brought to the tournament today.  \nMICHAEL: I’m playing Chaos Knights. Basically, I’m a bad guy, and they were originally the good guy knights and then some of the houses broke off and became bad guys, and so that’s basically what I’m running, I’m running big robots that are piloted by guys that were either affected by the warp, which is the negative energy in the universe.  \nBORIS: My army are called the Gene Steeler Cults. They worship an alien race called the Tyrranids. The Tyrranids are an intergalactic threat of brainless monsters that are controlled by a hive mind.  \nDANIEL: These are Gray Knights. They're um, essentially a bunch of dudes who hunt demons like the Ghostbusters of the Warhammer universe, their entire idea is they're incorruptible. Um, there's a lot of stuff out in the mean mod universe that wants to like  \ntake over your mind and then these guys will show up and get rid of that for you. The tricky part about them is because they're so secretive, they tend to kill whoever knows about them, friend or foe. Um, so it's a very me-me kind of like, oh, don't find out aboutus, we'll get you.  \nAs you can tell, there’s a lot of backstory to Warhammer. But to sum it all up: everyone’s at war with each other. The rules are pretty complicated in terms of how you move your armies on the board, especially because every army moves in their own unique way. And in the past whenever someone would try to explain the game to me, I got totally lost in the details. So I never bothered playing.  \nBut I keep passing by this Warhammer store in Manhattan where they only sell Warhammer books, game pieces and art supplies for figurines. And real estate in Manhattan is very expensive. There’s a lot of turnover. But that shop is still there, even after the pandemic. There actually are hundreds of stores like that around  \nthe world. And over the last 6 years, the company that makes Warhammer, Games Workshop, more than doubled their revenue to over $500 million.  \nJAMES: They are a colossal company. They are one of the 350 largest companies in the UK.  \nJames Wallis writes, designs and publishes games. His latest book is nonfiction. It’s called Everybody Wins. It’s about the best board games in the last 45 years. He says the company Games Workshop was never modest about their goals.  \nJAMES: The phrase Total Global Domination would appear somewhere in the annual report every single year. The question was, is this a joke? Are they serious? 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