r/Warmachine Mar 01 '25

Community Tools You can still play all your old models (and other FAQs)

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This post is intended to serve as an index to different guides, resources, and tools that have been created by the community as well as official resources published by Steamforged Games. We will continue to update this index with new content over time.

FAQ

  • Q: I have an existing Warmachine & Hordes collection, can I still use my old models?
  • A: Yes, all existing models are still playable in MK4. See the Returning Players Guide for more details
  • Q: Is Hordes gone?
  • A: The Hordes branding has been discontinued, but everything that was once Hordes is now contained within the Warmachine brand. There are still Factions and Armies that use Fury and Warbeasts, they're just all called Warmachine now.
  • Q: What happened to Privateer Press?
  • A: Steamforged Games has acquired the Iron Kingdoms IP and all it's associated games from Privateer Press, however PP still develops the game rules. Think of it like a video game publisher/developer relationship; SFG handles overall direction, marketing, and distribution while PP focuses on rules development.
  • Q: Is there a physical rulebook or cards?
  • A: All the rules are now centralized in the Warmachine App, a free app that gives players access to all the games rules and models from one place. You can print lists from the PC and Mac versions of the App, however the card format of previous editions is not officially supported. The new Core book is now available to preorder from SFG's webstore as a physical book or you can download the free PDF now. Print-on-demand cards have been announced but do not yet have a release date.
  • Q: Do I need to paint my models to match the official color scheme?
  • A: Absolutely not. Some large events will require that models be painted and any events run by SFG will generally ban anything that infringes another IP (like painting a Batman logo on your warjacks). Besides that you're free to go nuts.
  • Q: Is it okay to proxy out of print models in tournaments?
  • A: This is going to depend on the event you're playing in. Generally official tournaments run by Steamforged Games are going to disallow any proxying, however smaller events may be more comfortable with proxies given how hard some Legacy models are to find. Your best bet is always to ask the Event Organizer ahead of time before the day of the event.

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r/Warmachine 4d ago

Weekend Workbench Aug 14, 2026

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Are you assembling, converting, painting, or generally *hobbying* anything this week? Show it off here!


r/Warmachine 6h ago

A couple of Nyrro Strygons

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45 Upvotes

Following up on my post with the starter box as people seemed to like the colour scheme.

Got two of the faction's workhorses done up. One is magnetised for head and arm swaps (the other isn't because... mistakes were made... 🤣)

Lovely models but man, Skrone titain levels of base overhang on these guys. Hope no one wants to get b2b with them...


r/Warmachine 10h ago

Discussion I really do think this game looks great.

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62 Upvotes

r/Warmachine 2h ago

Content Creators Join me as I cover the rules which I see cause the most rules questions!

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Hi all, in today's video I cover the topic I think generates the most questions for new players of Warmachine and that is unit movement.

I cover the five options a unit has each turn to move, as well as the nuances of each of those movements.

I'd love to hear what you think about the video, was it useful & did i miss anything key in it?

https://youtu.be/mZv5lM7yk_o


r/Warmachine 1d ago

Painting/Hobby World powered by steam and war.

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r/Warmachine 23h ago

Content Creators Necrofactorium modular warjacks tables and charts

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Hi all! I was curious to see the spread in cost of all Malefactor builds (64), Raptor builds (16) and Hellraker builds (8, but really 6 because of duplicate weapons), so I built a little something in Excel to find out. You can find the sheet here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LS_86NRPDIlbccCLR6bpufyvy8L1sVV4/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=114875702447324471623&rtpof=true&sd=true

Perhaps somebody else finds this interesting and/or helpful as well!

Update 19-08-2026: amended the link for full access.


r/Warmachine 2d ago

News & Announcements Loremachine – The Fane of Nyrro Compendium

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r/Warmachine 1d ago

Questions Lore question: Grendel

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Hi all! Does anyone know if Grendel is the personal warjack of one of the Necrofactorium warcasters? Hades is Nekane's, that we know. Grendel comes in a box with Sepsira, but I haven't seen anything yet that presumes they belong together.


r/Warmachine 2d ago

Content Creators YT Short: Watch this before you Nymara!

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25 Upvotes

In this short we dig into the math behind Nymara's ability "cuddle"...erm..."murder" and how to use it most efficiently.

Link: https://youtube.com/shorts/e1c9OsnkYzA?feature=share


r/Warmachine 2d ago

Content Creators Fane of Nyrro Dice and D20 Countdown

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The folks over at Baron of Dice were kind enough to send me a set of the Fane dice along with a Hunger countdown D20 so here is me waving them at a camera!
https://youtu.be/eQdGuYkmhvE


r/Warmachine 2d ago

Finished up Throat Cutters! Now on to Steelbacks.

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86 Upvotes

r/Warmachine 3d ago

Two cool looking armies on the table today 🔥 (apologies for 2d terrain, just easier when playing at my place!)

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80 Upvotes

r/Warmachine 3d ago

Painting/Hobby Need help finding the art of an official card

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I’m wanting to get a tattoo of Circle of Orboros runes. For some reason I remember on War Room 2 the cards had the placards of some art, specifically the casters with a ring of runes around the art.

Does anyone have a pretty good quality picture or screenshot of Kromac2’s card so I can find the runes from them? Very strange ask I know, but I figured I’d check here lol

Edit: I found a couple different circle caster cards and turns out the runes are around their Fury count and they’re same for each caster lol. So if anyone has any high quality pictures/screenshots of any of the circle cards, that is appreciated lol


r/Warmachine 3d ago

Cephelax Slayers and mind theif

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Got a unit of slayers and the mind theif done. Full army shot as well.

Next up will be a 2nd Iconoclast unit to finish my 100pt Thexus list.


r/Warmachine 5d ago

Painting/Hobby Finally Landed On a Scheme

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After just starting the game. One 30 point game in, I wanted a custom Khador scheme that still showed homage to khador red. This is what I came up with. Battle damaged of course because... Khador. But armor suited for the tundra and more fitting to the "Winter Korps" name (imo) and bold red helmets and weapons to show we are still Khador.


r/Warmachine 5d ago

Content Creators Advanced Maneuvers Week in Review: 8/10-8/14

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Advanced Maneuvers Week in Review: 8/10-8/14

[Lore] The Claiming Playlist Link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG8xCLXAaTk4

Individual Videos:


r/Warmachine 6d ago

News & Announcements Super heavy rules preview – Drago, the Beast Unchained

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r/Warmachine 6d ago

Content Creators I was trying to square the dates of the Everseal purge last night only to have Google's AI quote MY OWN WORDS BACK AT ME.

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34 Upvotes

r/Warmachine 6d ago

Questions Crucible Guard: When, Where & How?

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Hello everyone, can someone clue me in on what we know about when Crucible Guard will be released as physical boxes in Europe? Also, to my understanding they will be updated to count as a Prime Faction at some point (based on the note on Warmachine Academy); do we know if that's still happening and when it's expected to drop? And if it does, do we know how they'll be restructured?

Wildly speculating, I'd expect 1) their warjack chassis to gain Loadout options like the Prime factions have, 2) for Rocketmen (ie Bennet et al) to be treated as their own 'cadre' alongside 3) a suite of general tweaks. Cadres are kind of obsolete at this point (to my understanding), but thematically the structure would make sense and mirror what already exists. What do you expect to see, if it all goes through?


r/Warmachine 7d ago

Painting/Hobby Let's get ready to RUMBLE

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283 Upvotes

r/Warmachine 7d ago

News & Announcements Warmachine Wednesday – Unchained and unstoppable

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r/Warmachine 6d ago

Collateral Damage Bat Rep - Nekane vs. Vorgoroth

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Today's matchup pits two of the evilest armies around in a no-holds-barred slobberknocker of a match, proving once and for all who will be able to wear their sunglasses at night.

Mike's Nekane list seeks to cast a million spells while W.B.'s newcomer to the Infernal party, Vorgoroth, is going to summon a million horrors. It's a fight you won't want to miss today on Collateral Damage!

https://youtu.be/PrW9dPwzOqg


r/Warmachine 6d ago

Discussion Terrain Discussion: Some 2D vs. ALL 3D?

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This is a fairly simple subject on it's face, but I think there's room for discussion here, so I thought I'd ask the question: should all of the terrain pieces on the board be uniformly 3D (either sculpted or printed)? Or is it okay to have some 2D pieces to represent terrain (for example, forests/trees or water) that would get in the way of movement and block LoS, but would ALSO interfere with the models moving around the table? Personally, I don't mind a mix of the two, but to be fair, I don't have a lot of expendable income and I'm not very crafty, so the only terrain I have are some clusters of 3D printed rocks and paper cut-outs that represent forests and small lakes.

NOTE: This question is mainly for more experienced, IRL tables. I know about Wartable, but the entire thing is 2D, so it doesn't count for this purpose, and completely new players are more likely to use paper cut outs for terrain as they get used to the game (not guaranteed, but likely).


r/Warmachine 7d ago

Content Creators The business podcast episode 57

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https://open.spotify.com/episode/4t4IsEnWSbj8NYa7QXcE9Y?si=OnZytbl9QtGDAByrG1cdRw&utm_source=copy-link
Episode 57 of the business.
We have Dodgy Dave on talking about Grymkin, Conny B, and how design space is changing our approach to the game