The games are generally strategy, the videos I posted are not associated with the games other than in art and lore.
A lot of factions have their own unique stylings, the symbolism of the Emperium of Man is very gothic, chaos is like the corruption of the H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu franchise.
There are other factions like the Orks, Eldar (space elves, they are featured in the Spirit of Sanguinala), Dark eldar (Evil elves), Tyranids (which are like an insect/locust force of nature), Tau (which are fucking alien communist weebs), Mechanicus (featured in The Awakening and the mechanical man), and the Necrons (breifly featured in The Awakening).
The tales are often grim like an Eastern European story. I don't think kids younger than 8 play them as 8 seems to be about the age when kids begin to take interest in it and then it'll probably just be the "cool space guys". The target audience is probably around men around 20s->30s as that is who it is made by. They're intentionally dark as I think they realize the world is a dark place with the number of corrupt perverts we have in control of our politics.
It's maybe not your cup of tea, but these are the autists that will defend their community and study war and ideologies at all levels from it's darkest sides. Probably the first group of people that came out unheard saying "This pandemic is a load of shit."
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