Warhammer is a tabletop wargame produced by Games Workshop, encompassing fantasy and science fiction-based universes, where players collect, build, and paint miniatures to represent armies and engage in strategic battles.

Warhammer features extensive lore, narratives, and fictional histories, explored through novels, tabletop games, and other media. The game involves strategic decision-making, unit movement, and combat resolution through dice rolls and rule application.

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Warhammer: Age of Sigmar is a high fantasy setting with a medieval-inspired world. It features races like humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, and various magical creatures. The game focuses on a world on the brink of chaos, where various factions clash in a struggle for dominance.

Warhammer: 40,000 is a far future, grimdark universe where humanity is at war with a galaxy filled with alien threats, heretics, and supernatural forces. The game features a wide array of factions, including the Imperium of Man, Space Marines, alien races, and Chaos cults. It explores themes of war, corruption, and the struggle for survival in a bleak and unforgiving universe.

Warhammer: The Old World is the original fantasy setting of Warhammer Fantasy. It is a mass-battle tabletop game where you command miniature fantasy armies. A player’s forces include rank upon rank of soldiers who move as a single unit.

The Horus Heresy series takes place during a fictional galaxy-spanning civil war occurring in the 31st millennium, 10,000 years before the main setting of Warhammer 40,000. The war is described as a major contributing factor to the game's dystopian environment.