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Hi all,

When I am painting or making models I love to watch 40k/ other miniature games/hobby channels.

Just putting a list of channels I watch (I watch all their content and it is not enough lol).

I wish to know more good ones if you all can post them please!

I was thinking If I make a post it will be easy for me to reference, please post YouTube links.


1. Miniwargaming (fun banter, awesome narrative campaigns, regular content, am lifetime vault member because is so good): https://www.youtube.com/user/miniwargaming/videos

2. Tabletop Tactics (fun banter, awesome painted models, sad bone is leaving): https://www.youtube.com/user/tabletoptactics/videos

3. Luetin90 (Lore channel, great voice, fun info, I usually go to sleep listening to his content (that or an audible 40k title) and then re-listen to him when painting, I especially love his background on races, content etc): https://www.youtube.com/user/Luetin09/videos

4. StrikingScorpion82 (fun banter, good batreps, great painted models): https://www.youtube.com/user/StrikingScorpion82/videos

5. Guerrilla Miniature Games (good reviews of many games, good batreps of 40k and of other games/indi games, great painted models, great nostalgia channel): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbO4Vs1vlAA9hz7Ad7IMgug/videos

6. Tabletop Titans (fun banter, good info, occasionally good painted models): https://www.youtube.com/c/TabletopTitans/videos

7. Mountain Miniatures Gaming (great banter, good painted models, not really 40k more fantasy etc): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaYkMtSJbH1-s3OukKb55Ig/videos

8. Gaming with the Cooler (fun batreps and other content, been ages since something uploaded): https://www.youtube.com/user/GamingwithTheCooler/videos

9. winters SEO (ok banter): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWVwkGrdqVEGkU3LNlp70fw/videos

10. Sup3rSaiy3n (fun reviews): https://www.youtube.com/user/Sup3rSaiy3n/videos

10A. Goobertown Hobbies (hobby videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOviJ8lr6PHli_PjCH0a-4g/videos

10B. Squidmar Miniatures (hobby videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDvZTWvHZPTxJ4K1yTD2a1g/videos


Edit added from posts for ease


11. Goobertown Hobbies (hobby videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOviJ8lr6PHli_PjCH0a-4g/videos

12. Black Magic Craft (hobby videos): https://www.youtube.com/c/BlackMagicCraftOfficial/videos

13. MarcoFrisoniNJM (insane quality painting videos): https://www.youtube.com/user/SicarioRimini/videos

14. Squidmar Miniatures (hobby videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDvZTWvHZPTxJ4K1yTD2a1g/videos

15. Darren Latham Miniature Painting (dead channel as he's a GW employee, but still has some great painting tutorials -'Eavy Metal style- from a hobby legend): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSz0WzAuhwjezFyEIv3Xksg/videos

16. Play On Tabletop (batreps): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ4-WFTrDNWvcM7dEC6E2mw/videos

17. Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy (painting tutorial from the one and only): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuRNH2cb6VwsZbzILptDVIA/videos

18. Scarlet Sable (dead channel maybe, but some great painting tutorials): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOp2rj3_SOcmYxpEFQBL8Pw/videos

19. Cult of Paint (painting tutorials): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPI4wJgB2hlWZqz0tRqg4qQ/videos

20. Next Level Painting (painting tutorials): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTfnfIY3Kyxcv8sWck4sxvQ/videos

21. Night Shift (scale models hobby tutorials): https://www.youtube.com/c/NightShiftScaleModels/videos

22. Real Terrain Hobbies (hobby tutorials, especially terrain pieces): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ0ihYQ-HOCbDL69LWnDx3w/videos

23. Art of War 40K (mostly batraps, fun banter): https://www.youtube.com/c/ArtofWar40k/videos

24. Oculus Imperia (Lore Channel): https://www.youtube.com/c/OculusImperia/videos

I agree with basically all those you mentioned.

Some other ones:

11. Goobertown Hobbies (hobby videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOviJ8lr6PHli_PjCH0a-4g/videos

12. Black Magic Craft (hobby videos): https://www.youtube.com/c/BlackMagicCraftOfficial/videos

13. MarcoFrisoniNJM (insane quality painting videos): https://www.youtube.com/user/SicarioRimini/videos

14. Squidmar Miniatures (hobby videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDvZTWvHZPTxJ4K1yTD2a1g/videos

15. Darren Latham Miniature Painting (dead channel as he's a GW employee, but still has some great painting tutorials -'Eavy Metal style- from a hobby legend): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSz0WzAuhwjezFyEIv3Xksg/videos

16. Play On Tabletop (batreps): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ4-WFTrDNWvcM7dEC6E2mw/videos

17. Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy (painting tutorial from the one and only): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuRNH2cb6VwsZbzILptDVIA/videos

18. Scarlet Sable (dead channel maybe, but some great painting tutorials): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOp2rj3_SOcmYxpEFQBL8Pw/videos

19. Cult of Paint (painting tutorials): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPI4wJgB2hlWZqz0tRqg4qQ/videos

20. Next Level Painting (painting tutorials): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTfnfIY3Kyxcv8sWck4sxvQ/videos

21. Night Shift (scale models hobby tutorials): https://www.youtube.com/c/NightShiftScaleModels/videos

22. Real Terrain Hobbies (hobby tutorials, especially terrain pieces): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ0ihYQ-HOCbDL69LWnDx3w/videos

23. Art of War 40K (mostly batraps, fun banter): https://www.youtube.com/c/ArtofWar40k/videos

Goobertown Hobbies (hobby videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOviJ8lr6PHli_PjCH0a-4g/videos

Squidmar Miniatures (hobby videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDvZTWvHZPTxJ4K1yTD2a1g/videos

^ Few I forgot to add tbh (as in watch atm, are added above)

All these channels for people to check out (and myself0 is awesome, thanks people!

Keep it coming, some great channels that I will check out.

Seen a few of those before and was meh. But will check out again.

Agree with most of the above. Going to throw in Text to speach though it’s dead. They did upload that silly 40k stellaris video though I guess (40k comedy animations): https://youtube.com/c/alfabusa

Great choices there.
Tabletop Tactics is my staple due to the personalities of the presenters and quality of reports (I don't like just top down approach).
Been watching a lot of squidmar recently, has interesting topics.
SS82 always goes the extra mile in terrain which draws me into his videos.
MWG is a bit of a miss for me mostly, not sure why but mostly I don't find the presenters interesting enough.

Table Top Tactics, Are awesome, the spider, the beard and the bone (my favs), chef, you are ok but you no barber....(or butcher for bone or whatever a spider has lol.....)

Totally agree with SS82 he does mad stuff with terrain and is always an entertaining watch.

MWG is hit and miss (depends on presenters) but 80% of the time is good constant fun (their narrative campaigns are the best seen, 100% time for me anyway)

Squid does some great stuff, just wish would spend more time showing us final etc (like when did shots of his Thunderhawk, was like 30secs of finished shots rest was pans and crap of himself and smoke at the end I mean).

Baldemort is the only 40k channel you will ever need. Also I take a fancy to Mordian Glory for all my guard needs

Oculus Imperia: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8AaO8zkIoxbUp1_p0rl13g

The best lore channel out there. He does them in-character which gives them almost the feel of a radio play (some episodes straight up are that).

It's very, very good.

I skimmed listened to his channel before going to sleep (lore channels are what I love). I will add this guy above and listen to more in the future guaranteed

 bullyboy wrote:
Great choices there.
Tabletop Tactics is my staple due to the personalities of the presenters and quality of reports (I don't like just top down approach).
Been watching a lot of squidmar recently, has interesting topics.
SS82 always goes the extra mile in terrain which draws me into his videos.
MWG is a bit of a miss for me mostly, not sure why but mostly I don't find the presenters interesting enough.

Matt and Luca are great, the rest are meh at best though.

I'm looking to follow a Crusade... A series of batreps for a single army as it grows from 25 PL to 100 PL or beyond.

I'd like to watch Sisters, Drukari, GSC and Chaos.

Anyone know if such a thing exists?

PenitentJake wrote:
I'm looking to follow a Crusade... A series of batreps for a single army as it grows from 25 PL to 100 PL or beyond.

I'd like to watch Sisters, Drukari, GSC and Chaos.

Anyone know if such a thing exists?

Skari (SkaredCast) has a Drukhari crusade called "Rise of a Kabal" on YouTube, but I haven't managed to watch any yet.

Great stuff mentioned, particularly Tabletop Tactics.

I also watch Auspex Tactics for news and analysis, and Kirioth TV for 40k/AoS banter.

Dai wrote:

 bullyboy wrote:
Great choices there.
Tabletop Tactics is my staple due to the personalities of the presenters and quality of reports (I don't like just top down approach).
Been watching a lot of squidmar recently, has interesting topics.
SS82 always goes the extra mile in terrain which draws me into his videos.
MWG is a bit of a miss for me mostly, not sure why but mostly I don't find the presenters interesting enough.

Matt and Luca are great, the rest are meh at best though.

It's actually Matt that generally makes me turn off the video, just personal taste. I guess that's why it's good that there are choices.

When doing hobby stuff I usually put on Lets Plays or Speedruns in the background, but I know of some wargame/hobby stuff not mentioned yet:

Tabletop Minions: The host gives his personal insights on tabletop games and sometimes does paint streams and the like.
https://www.youtube.com/user/tabletopminions

Adeptus Ridiculous: Actually a podcast but they put their stuff on youtube too. One guy teaching the basics of 40k lore to someone else. Though at its most basic level and he gets stuff wrong now and then in his rush to try to cover everything. Still, its a fun listen and they sometimes do fun stuff like a read along of the "All Guardsman Party" tales while getting increasingly drunk.
https://www.youtube.com/c/Adeptusridiculous

MidWinterMinis is a good source of achievable Army speed-paints.

Striking Scorpion has the best batreps and some fine book page through and unboxing vids etc. Also YouTube.

Deployment Zone TV and Winters SEO have my vote.

Also Grim Resolve. One of the guys on there is an outstanding Ork player who gets the tactics and the lore.

Baldemort is the only 40k channel you will ever need. Also I take a fancy to Mordian Glory for all my guard needs

Just stumbled across Baldemort recently, and, if you're into lore, I can absolutely second the motion that his channel is awesome. Great writing, incredible voice. Super solid content.

Agree with almost everything everyone else has listed too. Especially Table Top Tactics. They are my personal "Gold Standard" for batreps. Table Top Titans are a close second, but sometimes the questions they answer in-game distract a bit from the game itself for me. That's the nitiest of nit-picks though.

40k in 40m is awesome.

So here are my go to channels organised by category (because im drunk and have nothing better to do):-

Lore: Leutin09 (i may have misspelled that)
Undoubtedly the single greatest channel for information on the 40k universe regardless of if you are a long time vet like me or a complete newbie. If you have any interest in finding out more about the background of 40k, this is where you go.

Painting: Squidmar and Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy. Both these channels have helped my approach to painting considerably through their concise and easily understood presentation styles.

Gaming/battle report: (Narrative)
Miniwargaming and Winters S.E.O.

While both these channels tend to run matched play games, for a fan of narrative based games these are great. Looking for a great story based 40k game that does'nt venture too far from the matched play standard? Winters is your man.

Interested in ongoing campaigns or other "off the wall" selections (such as BFG) Miniwargaming has got you covered. Both these channels have very personable presenters who don't take things too seriously and just have fun.

Gaming/Battle report (competitive)
Skaredcast. While I dont play drukhari myself, i have learnt a lot from Skari (also, he is running an ongoing crusade which is a lot of fun).

General hobby/model related chitchat:

Kirioth. Possibly the most calming voice on all of youtube, and seemingly a Genuinely Nice Chap* this is my go to channel for just listening to general opinions of new models, old models and all sorts of other stuff.

Humor/Nostalgia:
Snipe and Wib.
While maybe not to everybody's taste, very funny. Their "Codex Compliant" series where they review years old 40k offerings is excellent.

Game mechanics.
Want to know about how stuff actually works in the game? 2 words. Auspex Tactics.
A man unfathomably able to produce a video on any given 40k community article within 90mins of it going live. Definitely getting better at the monotone delivery, still suffering from the "raising pitch of voice at end of every sentnce" issue. absolutley knows his stuff when it comes to the nitty gritty of rules.

Miniwargaming is the only one to catch me for long. Their scenarios / narratives are great, Matt, Dave and Josh are awesome.
Striking Skorpion I find very hard to understand, tabletop tactics' and tabletop Titans' videos are far too long. And I don't care about the competitive aspects they like to go into.

My sub list for 40k:

Tabletop Titans (Competitive guides, casual and competitive battle reports)

Almost Pro Gaming (Competitive guides and competitive battle reports)

Art of War 40k (Competitive guides and competitive battle reports)

Auspex Tactics (Competitive guides)

Doctor Faust's Painting Clinic (Painting)

Duncan Rhodes' Painting Academy (Painting)

Duplicity Studio w/ Jim Vesal (Design discussions, favourite 40k adjacent channel ATM)

Eric's Hobby Workshop (Terrain)

Frontline Gaming (News and design discussions)

Guerrilla Miniature Games (Design discussions and casual battle reports for lots of systems)

Hellstorm Wargaming (Design discussions and memes)

Invasive Wargaming (Memes)

Miscast (game design, mini and terrain sculpting)

Play On Tabletop (Casual battle reports)

SkaredCast (Competitive guides, comp and casual battle reports)

StrikingScorpion82 (Casual battle reports)

Tabletop Tactics (Design discussions, comp and casual battle reports)

TableTopGuard (Competitive guides and memes)

Twisted Dice (Aceface a competitive Tyranids player produces content for the channel, they also do some livestreams and stuff)

Vanguard Tactics (Competitive guides, discussions and battle reports)

Encounter Wargaming (Terrain)

Forge The Narrative (40k hypemen podcast)

Zorpazorp (Terrain)

Super Wargamer (Necron design discussion and 3d modelling)

The Glacial Geek (Design discussion, comp and casual battle reports)

winters SEO (casual battle reports)

Not subbed to DiceCheck but MagikarpUsedFly is pretty fun, they've done an intro series on their experience getting into the hobby but they're still new so I don't like their design discussions.

I am also subbed to small number of roleplay and boardgame channels that are in the same genre of video.

Sgt. Cortez wrote:
Miniwargaming is the only one to catch me for long. Their scenarios / narratives are great, Matt, Dave and Josh are awesome.
Striking Skorpion I find very hard to understand, tabletop tactics' and tabletop Titans' videos are far too long. And I don't care about the competitive aspects they like to go into.

I'll never get that, why English spoken with a UK accent is harder for Germans than with an American accent.

We have so much slang and nuance compared to the Brits. Thought it would be easier.

 techsoldaten wrote:

Sgt. Cortez wrote:
Miniwargaming is the only one to catch me for long. Their scenarios / narratives are great, Matt, Dave and Josh are awesome.
Striking Skorpion I find very hard to understand, tabletop tactics' and tabletop Titans' videos are far too long. And I don't care about the competitive aspects they like to go into.

I'll never get that, why English spoken with a UK accent is harder for Germans than with an American accent.

We have so much slang and nuance compared to the Brits. Thought it would be easier.

In absence of other sources or preferences, "Hollywood english" is a common source of english language exposure for many, I suppose. If it sounds like a Star Wars or MCU movie, most Germans with a preference towards some nerd hobby (and no specific life experience, i.e. having lived or worked or travelled in the UK or Australia or some such) will probably experience that as "default" english.

Sunny Side Up wrote:

 techsoldaten wrote:

Sgt. Cortez wrote:
Miniwargaming is the only one to catch me for long. Their scenarios / narratives are great, Matt, Dave and Josh are awesome.
Striking Skorpion I find very hard to understand, tabletop tactics' and tabletop Titans' videos are far too long. And I don't care about the competitive aspects they like to go into.

I'll never get that, why English spoken with a UK accent is harder for Germans than with an American accent.

We have so much slang and nuance compared to the Brits. Thought it would be easier.

In absence of other sources or preferences, "Hollywood english" is a common source of english language exposure for many, I suppose. If it sounds like a Star Wars or MCU movie, most Germans with a preference towards some nerd hobby (and no specific life experience, i.e. having lived or worked or travelled in the UK or Australia or some such) will probably experience that as "default" english.

Hmm, to me british english is always harder to understand than american english. I wouldn't say it's because of hollywood necessarily, but then again when I made my exams 14years ago I watched Star Trek DS9 because I found that pretty easy to understand, even back then when I didn't know anything else. I think it's just a clearer pronounciation if you don't take some strong texan slang or similar.
Bones from TTS is pretty tough to understand, too, because he speaks very fast, often joking and pretty quiet.

Sgt. Cortez wrote:

Sunny Side Up wrote:

 techsoldaten wrote:

Sgt. Cortez wrote:
Miniwargaming is the only one to catch me for long. Their scenarios / narratives are great, Matt, Dave and Josh are awesome.
Striking Skorpion I find very hard to understand, tabletop tactics' and tabletop Titans' videos are far too long. And I don't care about the competitive aspects they like to go into.

I'll never get that, why English spoken with a UK accent is harder for Germans than with an American accent.

We have so much slang and nuance compared to the Brits. Thought it would be easier.

In absence of other sources or preferences, "Hollywood english" is a common source of english language exposure for many, I suppose. If it sounds like a Star Wars or MCU movie, most Germans with a preference towards some nerd hobby (and no specific life experience, i.e. having lived or worked or travelled in the UK or Australia or some such) will probably experience that as "default" english.

Hmm, to me british english is always harder to understand than american english. I wouldn't say it's because of hollywood necessarily, but then again when I made my exams 14years ago I watched Star Trek DS9 because I found that pretty easy to understand, even back then when I didn't know anything else. I think it's just a clearer pronounciation if you don't take some strong texan slang or similar.
Bones from TTS is pretty tough to understand, too, because he speaks very fast, often joking and pretty quiet.

I'm a first language English speaker and can barely understand Steve from MWG due to his mumbling. That and his general personality have me switching off the second I see he is playing.

 harlokin wrote:

PenitentJake wrote:
I'm looking to follow a Crusade... A series of batreps for a single army as it grows from 25 PL to 100 PL or beyond.

I'd like to watch Sisters, Drukari, GSC and Chaos.

Anyone know if such a thing exists?

Skari (SkaredCast) has a Drukhari crusade called "Rise of a Kabal" on YouTube, but I haven't managed to watch any yet.

Great stuff mentioned, particularly Tabletop Tactics.

I also watch Auspex Tactics for news and analysis, and Kirioth TV for 40k/AoS banter.

Thanks for this- I subscribed to the channel and watched the first battle- it was sweet to see two 25 PL forces play a full five turns- reading Dakka, sometimes it sounds like all games end turn two, and small games suck. Quite the opposite, from what I saw. I'm halfway through the 2nd video; there was a fight in between, which they didn't film- kind of unfortunate, but what ever. I might hit him up through Patreon to request more Crusade- he hasn't posted a Crusade update in a while; those vids don't get the same hit counts as the ones geared toward competitive optimization, so I get it. But maybe I can twist his arm.

Dai wrote:

Sgt. Cortez wrote:

Sunny Side Up wrote:

 techsoldaten wrote:

Sgt. Cortez wrote:
Miniwargaming is the only one to catch me for long. Their scenarios / narratives are great, Matt, Dave and Josh are awesome.
Striking Skorpion I find very hard to understand, tabletop tactics' and tabletop Titans' videos are far too long. And I don't care about the competitive aspects they like to go into.

I'll never get that, why English spoken with a UK accent is harder for Germans than with an American accent.

We have so much slang and nuance compared to the Brits. Thought it would be easier.

In absence of other sources or preferences, "Hollywood english" is a common source of english language exposure for many, I suppose. If it sounds like a Star Wars or MCU movie, most Germans with a preference towards some nerd hobby (and no specific life experience, i.e. having lived or worked or travelled in the UK or Australia or some such) will probably experience that as "default" english.

Hmm, to me british english is always harder to understand than american english. I wouldn't say it's because of hollywood necessarily, but then again when I made my exams 14years ago I watched Star Trek DS9 because I found that pretty easy to understand, even back then when I didn't know anything else. I think it's just a clearer pronounciation if you don't take some strong texan slang or similar.
Bones from TTS is pretty tough to understand, too, because he speaks very fast, often joking and pretty quiet.

I'm a first language English speaker and can barely understand Steve from MWG due to his mumbling. That and his general personality have me switching off the second I see he is playing.

I've watched some German batreps, even though I can barely speak the language.

There's something to watching without knowing what the speaker is saying. After about 10 minutes, I pick up on most of what they're trying to get across.

40k is a universal.