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There was a crew from Soulpancake at our local FLGS doing two webisodes about the Miniature Wargaming subculture. I was really excited to see it. The first one I saw was an overarching view of the hobby with a heavy emphasis on Warmahordes which makes since because the store and it's staff are primarily focused on PP as opposed to 40k or Fantasy. It is honestly really good imho They also posted a second, shorter one, highlighting one of their personalities "learning" 6th edition 40k. What the end result seems to be is a heavily edited slam on 40k being oddball, confusing, and hard to learn/play

I wrote a short blurb as well as embedded both videos on Capture and Control here http://www.captureandcontrol.com/2012/08/special-episode-of-soulpancake-on.html

Conversely here are the two links to youtube. First is the good overarching video about the miniatures subculture, second is the one that imo is the much less flattering video pertaining to 40k.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygYhpm2Mgk8&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZW6jIYwivs&feature=plcp

Perhaps I am being too touchy about it but it certainly seems like the editors/producers of the segments were biased toward showing Warmahordes in a more positive light than Warhammer 40k. I am curious as to what you all think.

Mods: I wasn't sure if this belonged here or in Dakka Discussions so feel free to move it if you don't believe this qualifies as News.

The problem is the two guys demoing 40k. There should have been one of them and her and he should have kept things going in a straight forward manner. That part where they were flipping through the rulebook was painful. If a teenager can do the red shirt thing in a GW store and get a good demo across, what's their excuse?

I don't think the makers of the video knew enough about the subculture to pick out the people properly. They lucked out with the Warmachine people and then didn't have as much luck with the two 40k guys.

Yeah, odds are they cut the 40k one short simply because they couldn't find anyone other than a couple of neckbeard stereotypes to talk about the game, rather than it being an inherent bias towards warmachine.

Whereas with the warmachine players, they had access to some nice, well-groomed, not entirely socially inept people to talk to, so they had some actually usable content there... the 40k players pretty much straight-up ignored the lady trying to interview them and cut her off mid-sentence about 3 times in a row.

The video makers don't strike me as the kind of people that would have a bias towards one game or another, seems like they just rolled with what they found on the day they visited... looks like there's a lot more warmachine players in that store.

Ironically, the behaviour of the 40k players is exactly the kind of thing that people online often use as a means of bashing warmachine, with the tired old "WM players are all TFG neckbeards/ page 5 snorting psychos" line.

I don't play or like WM, but I think that particular portrayal of it is more than a little unfair, so I'm actually fine with something online that casts the social side of it in a positive light for once.