Warhammer is known as an extremely expensive hobby. However, many players cannot or do not want to spend that much money. A whole community has dedicated itself to the endeavor of playing cheaply: Poorhammer. One user has now constructed the supposedly ultimate cheapest and simplest army.
What kind of army is this?
- The user EineStangeDreck shows his army of Reddit from Orks from Warhammer 40,000.
- Normally, Warhammer armies consist of assembled and painted miniatures. In this case, however, the entire army is constructed solely from metal plates.
- EineStangeDreck writes: He wanted to have an army that his Death Korps of Krieg could practice against without embarrassing himself. The result delights the community.
This is how the player saved money: The entire army consists only of metal plates that have been welded onto small stands and then painted. EineStangeDreck himself writes: The cost amounts to 7 euros for the spray paint. The metal parts themselves he assembled from scraps during the night shift, essentially getting them for free.
For comparison: A Big Rösti at McDonald’s costs 6.99 euros (according to the official website). When comparing the prices with those from the Warhammer shop, the official models for the army total around 1,100 euros. If anyone wants to calculate, the list includes:
- a Big Mek in Mega Armor
- two units consisting of 19 Boyz each with a Boss Nob
- two Battlewagons
- a Killaboss
- a unit of 4 Lootas with a Spanner
- six Mega Nobz
- a Morkanaut (or Gorkanaut)
- two Shokkjump Dragstas
- a unit of 4 Stormboyz with a Boss Nob
- a unit of Tankbustas consisting of 5 Tankbustas with a Boss Nob
- three units of 2 Warbikers each with a Boss Nob on Warbike
The army is more or less “legal”. Proxies, that is, something that pretends to be in this case a corresponding mini, are not forbidden but must be acknowledged by the opponent.
What’s important is that the “Base”, that is the stand, has the correct size. Only at official tournaments are proxies usually not allowed. In many tournaments, the minis must also have at least three colors, which is not the case in this army. However, there are tips from the community: Just paint the edges with a black marker.
Poorhammer is more than Warhammer for the Poor
In the comments, users express their enthusiasm for the army. It is exactly how you do Poorhammer right: spend little money for a complete army. One user is even convinced: If more people did this, the horrendous prices would fall.
Especially the plates that simply say “Boy” are fantastic: “Just imagine an Imperial Guardsman looking over the trench and seeing thousands of blue plates that say ‘Boy’. Creepy.”
“Poorhammer” is no longer just a way for people with little money to engage in an expensive hobby. It is a statement of creativity in trying to do something you love.
A well-known example from recent times is a user who built a Dreadnought out of cardboard and ice cream sticks so detailed that some fans said: Even minis from Games Workshop do not look this good.
To play Warhammer cheaply, you don’t necessarily have to be creative. You can also just check flea markets and estate sales; sometimes you get lucky, like this fan: User finds Warhammer figures in a “free to give away” pile, community clarifies: They are probably worth 500 euros
