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Hi all.
I wanted to show you all an interesting idea that our gaming group developed during the last 6 months. What we managed to achieve is a radical reduction in dimensions of the standard Warhammer 40.000 into a much, much smaller version, using the easily available miniatures for Epic Armageddon.

When we first though about it we were quite surprised not to find anyone else on internet who already managed to get it properly functioning. There was only a single discussion on Tau Online silent from years now.

In the last months we then embarked on this simple project of our own on testing the actual feasibility of the idea. To our surprise it turned out to be absolutely efficient, easy to achieve, and fun.
It actually proved to be so good that we wanted to share the discovery with other Warhammer 40k players in the hope that other people will pick up the idea and enjoy the game.

With no further ado, here goes the link to the website, which hold pretty much every information and material about Pocket Warhammer 40K:

http://sites.google.com/site/pocketw40k/home

The game is still being improved by adding more and more models to our collection, material to the website, pictures, tutorials and so on; therefore, any comment is much welcome!

This is actually a pretty nifty idea.

Second time today I used the word nifty, never used it before in my life.

This is hilarious. ^^ I love the idea.

IIRC in a really old WD they had a guy who made 'travel' 40k using epic minis with pins in the base and putting them on a board made of polystyrene.

That can be very interesting! Do you remember which WD issue was that?

I remember one poster on another forum had a pocket version of Space Hulk. He used Epic Terminators and Genestealers and magnetized the bases. He used fridge magnet strips that were printed or painted, and set it up on his fridge.

:O fridge warhammer! I would just move into the kitchen XD

That's totally awesome!
I guess we can add pictures of a Warhammer game on the fridge... That would be the second fridge featured. XD

By the way, since the website still needs, badly needs, nice pictures, anyone willing to join development and show his works is free to submit pictures fitting with Pocket Warhammer, tutorials and so on. There should be no problems in adding them.

Fun stuff, guys. I think I'll keep an eye on this.

This looks really interesting. Having a scaled-down version of 40K would be amazing, but there could be issues with moving the tiny miniatures around with precision.

you know this could be perfect for me. I collected warhammer for years and sort of just fell out of it cause of wife, kids etc. I just cant justify the time or money to invest into painting so many models, especially when im sort of OCD about painting. This could be a great and cheaper way to get into playing more. Only problem I could see is finding enough people to play with. But it would be awesome to try! thanks for this post, something to look into!

NimbleJack3 wrote:This looks really interesting. Having a scaled-down version of 40K would be amazing, but there could be issues with moving the tiny miniatures around with precision.

Well, we tried it. As we mention in the website, everyone can face a bit of difficulty in moving infantry for the first one or two games. Luckily is only a matter of experience, so after the said couple of games, no one should have problems with the small size. It also depends on the level of precision that one wishes to achieve. Vehicles give no problem at all, not even in the beginning.

Gorgarak wrote:you know this could be perfect for me. I collected warhammer for years and sort of just fell out of it cause of wife, kids etc. I just cant justify the time or money to invest into painting so many models, especially when im sort of OCD about painting. This could be a great and cheaper way to get into playing more. Only problem I could see is finding enough people to play with. But it would be awesome to try! thanks for this post, something to look into!

I'm happy to hear it! The game was actually tested and optimized exactly towards these needs. Finding people is more difficult, if you expect them to have their own army, but it should be pointed out that Pocket W40K is so cheap and easily made that one single person can hold and own multiple armies for various factions.
In a big army we were asked to prepare tabletop ready the amount of models was pretty much as follows:
3 land raider, 6 land speeder, 10 rhinos, 16 bikes, more than 100 SM etc etc. Clearly the numbers are excessive for a single army, but they allow for great variability, as well as building two armies of SM. When it come to play with others, you simply share the miniatures.
In short, you just need to invite people to play warhammer, and they just need to bring their list, and beer.

This is awesome at so many levels... genius

wicked, I will try this.

Pocket warhammer is now also on google+ and facebook. New pictures in the gallery (tyranids!), as well as battle diaries.

The 12th Concordian Fridge Garrison is ready to fight!

Lol, great idea on the pocket warhammer!

Pocket warhammer is now also on facebook and google+. Supporters are a lot welcome.

I bet GW would still find a way to charge you $35 for ten 6mm space marines.

New tutorial for a 6mm Dark Eldar Talos Pain Engine. Easier than ever.

http://sites.google.com/site/pocketw40k/home/tutorials/conversions/talos-pain-engine

Great idea. Keep it going!

New tutorials!

Mycetic Spore:
https://sites.google.com/site/pocketw40k/home/tutorials/conversions/mycetic-spore

Tervigon:
https://sites.google.com/site/pocketw40k/home/tutorials/conversions/Tervigon

And new Tyranid's photos
https://sites.google.com/site/pocketw40k/home/gallery/armies/hive-fleet-eschaton

Enjoy

Those are some really clever conversions.

Although I think Elite armies would be better than Hordes for the Pocket gaming.

This is true.
Elite armies are much confortable to use in battle, for the low number of models. On the other hands, Horde armies are beautiful at this scale (in my opinion), and to resolve the problem, you can use a magnetic base to move all the models like a single unit.
I can assure you that this works!

New Gallery of the Grey Knights!!!
https://sites.google.com/site/pocketw40k/home/gallery/grey-knight

Well this got me back on my own project for pocket 40k from a few years ago that I was considering enough to pick up some models. And then a few years after that I grabbed a bunch of Epic Armageddon stuff.

And not this got me to go back and take a look at my Epic stuff and see if I could put together at least 3-4 2k armies and god help me I found:

2 NIB IG Leman Russ Tank Companies
2 NIB IG Company Boxes
1 NIB Space Marine Company
2 NIB Ork Warbands

And a ton of vehicles for orks, IG, and SM's.....Guess I'm gonna be putting a few armies together. I'll try and get some painted up and put up some photos. This is a good side project since I don't have any time to paint real armies right now due to real life. Might even pick up a Chaos box or two to help use up my extra SM vehicles. It does make me wish I had grabbed a few Tyranid Swarm boxes when they've come up from time to time. This'll also be great for quick playtesting for new builds before I commit to new models

Oh, and if you can find it the unofficial supplement "Epic: Raiders" has some great conversion ideas for Necrons & DE.

Hulksmasher, we're happy to liste that you like the idea!
If you have photos, comments or other thinks to say about pocket, you can see the new section on Dakkadakka

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/454646.page#4383960

We have created a new topic for the news, because this topic was a topic of presentation of the project. If anyone wants to become part of Pocket Warhammer 40k, this is our mail

pocketw40k@gmail.com

We know epic armageddon and we know the Epic:Raiders supplement. Fantastic. Our friend Levian works at DE, and he sculpt DE models like the last edition, you can see here

https://sites.google.com/site/pocketw40k/home/gallery/dark-eldar

For the necron, well, work in progress...

New Eldar Gallery!!!

https://sites.google.com/site/pocketw40k/home/gallery/armies/eldar

In the official section of Pocket, there is a question for you guys!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/454646.page#4450785

I waits a lots of answers!!!

Definitely keeping an eye on this. Looks really cool (though as someone who really enjoys the painting aspect, I'd probably only use this as a way to get people into 40k in general).

Still, a very cool concept and neat execution.

I think I have to build me a Eldar vs. Marines 2nd Edition style battle pocket 40k board.