* Legion ( Warhammer 40, 000 ), a Horus Heresy novel by Dan Abnett

* Marienburg ( Warhammer ), a fictional city in the Warhammer Fantasy world

* In the tabletop wargame Warhammer 40, 000 ( set 38, 000 years in the future ), Mars is a vast, heavily colonized ' Forge World ,' home to the Adeptus Mechanicus, the Tech-Priests of Mars.

* Terminator ( Warhammer 40, 000 ), a type of Space Marine in the Warhammer 40, 000 setting

Initially covering a wide variety of fantasy and science-fiction role-playing and board games, particularly the role playing games ( Advanced ) Dungeons & Dragons, RuneQuest and Traveller ( which were all published by other games companies ), the magazine underwent a major change in style and content in the late 1980s and is now dedicated exclusively to the miniature wargames produced by Games Workshop, mainly the core systems of Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40, 000 and The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.

The magazine's content is divided among the three core games ( Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40, 000 and The Lord of the Rings SBG ), with roughly equal amounts of page space devoted to each, although The Lord of the Rings SBG usually has the least amount of space with usually only 1 / 4 to 1 / 5 of the magazine.

MMORPGs, originating in the mid-to-late 1990s, become a popular PC trend and virtual online worlds become a reality as games such as RuneScape ( 2001 ), Final Fantasy XI ( 2002 ), Eve Online ( 2003 ), Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided ( 2003 ), World of Warcraft ( 2004 ), and Everquest II ( 2004 ), The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar ( 2007 ) and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning ( 2008 ) are released.

* Squat ( Warhammer 40, 000 ), a race in the Warhammer 40, 000 universe

Its various factions and races include the Imperium of Man, a decentralized yet totalitarian interstellar empire that has ruled the vast majority of humanity for millennia, the Orks ( similar to Warhammer Fantasy Orcs ), the Eldar ( similar to Elves in Warhammer Fantasy Battle ), and Daemons ( very similar in both universes, although the precise natures of their creation and existence vary slightly ), among others.

* Symbol of the Imperium ( Warhammer 40, 000 ) in the fictional Warhammer 40, 000 universe

In contrast to many other fictional FTL technologies, such as a " jump drive " or the Infinite Improbability Drive, the warp drive does not permit instantaneous travel between two points ; instead, warp drive technology creates an artificial " bubble " of normal space-time that surrounds the spacecraft ( as opposed to entering a separate realm or dimension like hyperspace, as is used in the Star Wars, Stargate franchise, Warhammer 40, 000, Babylon 5 and Andromeda universes ).

Warhammer 40, 000s space-fantasy setting spans a vast fictional universe set in the far future of the forty-first millennium.

The Eldar are a race of elf like beings who inhabit the fictional universe of the game Warhammer 40, 000, a 1987 tabletop miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop, set in a dystopian science-fantasy universe.

* Eldar ( Warhammer 40, 000 ), ancient race of elf-like aliens in the Warhammer 40, 000 fictional universe

The Tyranids are a fictional race from the Warhammer 40, 000 tabletop game and its spin-off media.

* Stormtroopers, elite soldiers in the fictional Imperial Guard of Warhammer 40, 000

* Ork ( Warhammer 40, 000 ), a fictional species in the Warhammer 40, 000 universe

In the fictional universe of Warhammer 40, 000 created by Games Workshop, Space Marines are genetically modified superhuman soldiers, the elite warriors of the Imperium of Man.

* Blackstone Fortress, a type of space station in the fictional universe of Warhammer 40, 000

* Cypher ( Warhammer 40, 000 ), a character from the fictional Warhammer 40, 000 universe

* In the Warhammer 40, 000 fictional universe, the Eldar race live and travel aboard interstellar arks, Craftworlds

The fictional Warhammer races and events are described, below, using in-universe tone.

* Space Marines ( Warhammer 40, 000 ), a fictional army in Warhammer 40, 000

* Eisenstein ( spacecraft ), a fictional spacecraft, featured in Flight of the Eisenstein, a 2007 novel by James Swallow for the Horus Heresy series of Warhammer 40, 000.

In the fictional universe of Warhammer 40, 000, the Dark Eldar are a Kindred of the Eldar, an ancient and advanced race of elf-like humanoids.

* Nordland ( Warhammer ), a province in the land of " The Empire " in the Warhammer Fantasy setting

It was not until the 4th edition of Warhammer that the new style with their own land and society came to be described.

Unlike most of the races in Warhammer Fantasy, Chaos Dwarfs see little need for further campaigns into distant lands to gain more land or belongings ; they have all the slaves they need in the Mountains of Mourn and the Dark Lands, along with more material wealth than they actually need ; although being Dwarfs, they continue to search for more.

Examples include letters for Boggle, directions for Warhammer Fantasy Battle, playing card symbols for poker dice, and instructions for sexual acts using sex dice.

However, in 1983 Games Workshop published Warhammer Fantasy Battle, initially as a " Mass-combat Role Playing Game ", which quickly moved to dominate the fantasy wargaming market.

Advanced Squad Leader ( 1985 ) became a niche hobby in and of itself, and Axis and Allies ( 1984 ) was very popular with the mass market audience and Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy Battle ( 1983 ) spawned a long-lasting line popular miniatures games including the successive editions of Warhammer and the science-fantasy Warhammer 40, 000 game.

Warhammer Fantasy Battle in progress.

Today, games such as Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Flames of War, Field of Glory and the newer collectible miniatures games continue to recruit new interest into the oldest form of the wargaming hobby.

* Warhammer Fantasy Battle ( Games Workshop, 1983 )-An internationally successful fantasy miniature wargame.

In this respect it took over some of the aspects of the Citadel Journal, an intermittent publication that supported the Warhammer Fantasy Battle game.

: For the tabletop games, see Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40, 000.

Popular miniature wargames include Warhammer 40, 000 or its fantasy counterpart Warhammer Fantasy.

Boyars are characters in the game Warhammer Fantasy.

In the Warhammer Fantasy Tabletop Game, Hippogriffs are a monster-mount option for Bretonnian Lords.

He usually serves as the gamemaster for his group of friends when they role-play ; his favorite game is Warhamster ( a parody of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay ).

* In the table-top strategy game Warhammer 40, 000, hyperstructures, called " hives ," are extremely common and are the main method of housing large populations in the billions.

Necromunda, an off-shoot game set in the Warhammer 40, 000 universe, involves conflict between rival gangs on the hive world of Necromunda.

* In the video game Warhammer 40, 000: Dawn of War the main character sometimes on the move order say " Nobody expects the imperial Inquisition ".

* In the video game Warhammer 40, 000: Dawn of War II – Retribution, the character Inquisitor Andrastia has " my chief weapons are surprise and fear " as one of her lines.

In the tabletop game Warhammer 40, 000, the forces use mecha of a variety of sizes and shapes.

* Sigismund, a character from the Warhammer 40, 000 game series, First Captain of the Imperial Fists Legion and later founder and first High Marshall of the Black Templars Chapter

* Titan Legions, units of giant bipedal war machines in the Warhammer 40, 000 game universe

* In the Games Workshop game Warhammer 40k The premier chapter of space marines are called Ultramarines.

* Warhammer 40, 000: Dawn of War, a strategy video game

* In the Games Workshop game universe of Warhammer 40, 000, adamantium used in the power armour and terminator suits of the Space Marines.

The game industry self-publishes through BL Publishing / Black Library ( Warhammer ) and Wizards of the Coast ( Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, etc .).

Examples include the 1989 video game Phantasy Star II, the 2007 film Battle for Terra, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, the Imperium of Man in the Warhammer 40, 000 universe, the 2009 movies Planet 51 and the 2011 movie Mars Needs Moms.

Warhammer 40, 000 and The Doom computer game franchise follows this concept.

Warhammer 40, 000 was created by Rick Priestley in 1987 as the futuristic companion to Warhammer Fantasy Battle, sharing many game mechanics.

The Warhammer 40, 000 game takes place in a dystopic science-fantasy universe set in the late-40th to early-41st millennium AD.