Recommended Web Video Channels

This page is dedicated to the well-known content creators who create Warhammer, D&D, and/or other tabletop related content, or history-related channels that are good starting places for research. Creators who are interested in but do not regularly create content around these topics are not included.

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Warhammer Creators

Warhammer

The official Games Workshop YouTube channel for Warhammer 40,000 and Age of Sigmar. There you can find trailers for new armies, boxes and codexes. But more importantly, you can find tutorials by Duncan Rhodes and Chris Peach on how to paint, kitbash and use tools, which let's face it is the real reason to keep up with the channel. Duncan left GW on the last day of 2019 and has since moved onto his own channel, and is replaced by Nick Bayton.

AoS Coach

The premier AoS tabletop rules and tournament channel, hosted by Anthony. This charming Aussie specializes in commentary and coverage of rules updates and army strategy, as well as the latest metas in the AoS tournament scene, in Australia and America. Most noteworthy is his "Talkin' 3rd Edition" series, where he analyzes the new changes brought to the various factions in 3rd Edition, discussing them with a prominent player of that particular faction from the tournament scene.

Astartes

"The (unofficial) Warhammer 40k animation." This guy made possibly the best Warhammer 40k animation ever. It shows Space Marines acting like Space Marines, moving ridiculously fast for something their size, utterly overpowering any mortal that tries to stop them and shrugging off damage that would turn a human into a smear on the floor. Go watch it, you won't regret it.

Currently vacant as the Astartes shorts are now hosted on the Warhammer Community website. All that's left is a video informing everyone about this development. Most likely due to copyright. Of course, Geedubs messed with it, so you might as well flip copyright the bird and watch a reupload of the original cut.

Auspex Tactics

Youtuber focused on the tabletop games rules and tactics. Is very active, uploading consistently, and is up to date with new rules and releases. Does the occasional product review, though has been heavily criticized by anyone who doesn't play Imperium for his lack of uploads on xenos armies. This is either a result of unfamiliarity with the factions requested, or more likely he just hasn't gotten around to it yet. It's the latter. He has a few xenos armies, and actually does the mathhammer. The guy is a fucking machine and drops one hour in depth videos like a day after an update comes out.

Baldermort's Guide to Warhammer

He is a rising Warhammer 40k content creator who specialises in beginner level lore and stories for his videos. Notable for his raw vocal talent, self-written audio dramas, high upload rate, and use of audience participation by forging narratives based on in-comment voting.

BigDickCheney

Uploads clips of Dawn Of War cutscenes and voice lines. Although a long-dead channel, this guy's videos are the source of many memes which shaped the culture of /tg/ into what it is today. On top of that, the videos themselves are a good way to relisten to DOW's amazing voice acting backed by the score from Casshern (which fits surprisingly well.)

Bruva Alfabusa

You know who he is, I know who is, we all know who he is. Chapter Master of the now defunct Alfa Legion and creator of the YouTube phenomenon If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device. Has also created a few other shows like The Upper Hive and has a bunch of Dawn of War 2 voice lines on his channel from years ago... for reasons most would rather forget.

He effectively shelved TTS due to the copyright-apocalypse GW waged, spending the months since putting together something to replace it. He's finally released a sort of TTS-style show based on World of Darkness with a cast that's pretty-much-but-not-exactly the TTS crew, as well as a significant bump in animation quality and original art.

Chapter Master Valrak

A 40K news channel and Imperial Fists fanboy (and Primarch fanboy, given he immediately predicts another Primarch will come back once one does). Also produces videos on 40K games and gets fairly involved in other projects such as Helsreach. Self-identifies with the Imperium, often using the term "we" whenever he refers to the Imperium winning in a global campaign or story. If you're into that kind of stuff, give him a watch. Hilariously, he scored as Perturabo on a “Which Primarch are you?” personality quiz.

Dawnstir

A small, mostly AoS-focused channel that produces some humorous, yet informative videos aimed at being enjoyable for both newbies and seasoned hobbyists. Primarily seems to deal with the fluff associated with AoS, but actually draws the connection between fluff and tabletop, understanding that the primary role of fluff is to serve as context for a toy soldiers game and modelling hobby. Produced what is probably the best look at Stormcast Eternals and what makes them distinct from their 40k cousins, alongside what makes them interesting in comparison, for example. Also dabbles in the discussion of satire and pastiche in Warhammer overall, discussing the influences and themes of the various characters and factions.

Eliphas

Named after the titular Inheritor. Creates art for TTS and sometimes voices characters. Is more active on Twitter, but uploads some pretty good videos every now and then. Also made the TTS-verse sideshow Behemoth.

Hearesy

Up-and-coming Horus Heresy: Age of Darkness YouTuber with a similar kind of delivery and content style as Auspex Tactics; though a little less mathhammery by comparison. His content focuses not only about tactics but also how to pick your strategy and even a handful of hobby tips to best enter the 31st Millennium's collecting (such as his video on magnetizing Contemptor weapons). Unlike Auspex Tactics, his tactical analysis is less about dealing with a competitive meta, and more about having balanced lists to maximize enjoyability.

HeyWoah

Up-and-coming Age of Sigmar content creator with a penchant for deadpan delivery and zero punctuation (the good kind) in his videos. Did not come into AoS from WHFB, his advice is generally newbie-friendly with technical slang thrown in and his faction spotlights are very measured and balanced. Possible contender for best AoS factions summary video to date. A self-confessed weeb that also regularly streams weeb games on Twitch.

Janovich

Animator and Death Korps of Krieg fanboy (expect the obvious jokes abound). He has made high-quality historical documentary-style videos detailing the Siege of Vraks and the Krieg Civil War, besides that he also posts animations, shitposts, podcasts and other stuff.

Karl the Deranged

Needs very little introduction. Voices characters on TTS like Marneus Calgar and sometimes shows up at the end of episodes just to shout. On his channel you'll find content in a similar vein to TTS, like Ravandil's Quest (where those Dwarven Elf roasting sessions came from) and the meme-worthy Vindicare Assassin video. He's definitely earned the "Deranged" part of his name.

KiriothTV

A 40K vlogger and once a member of the Unit Lost Gaming channel before becoming a 40K channel. Always keeps up to date with 40K news and gives his 50 cents on the hobby. Also uploads videos on assorted topics that have taken his fancy.

Kitetsu

Like Kirioth, but for Age of Sigmar.

Lost Legion

Similar to the Primaris channel, but are making a film/short series about Eldar Exodites instead. The First teaser looks very promising with the Eldar moving so fast and gracefully that they are blurs. Once again GWs official animations are being shown up by fan animations, which explains why GW themselves decided to work with them.

Loremaster of Sotek

A laid back Warhammer Fantasy YouTuber and acolyte of Tehenhauin known for his Legendary Lord and QnA series where he goes in-depth on the various intricacies of the many factions and races in the setting. Excluding his more casual videos, his style is very narrative, like trying to tell a coherent story. Also has several videos for people wishing to get into Age of Sigmar and regularly streams TWW and Vermintide II where he takes questions as well. Recently got flak from the community for defending GW's IP policy

Luetin09

The true workhorse of the 40k Youtube content creators. The sheer volume variety of quality content he presents caters to a wide range of interests. From tactics and tutorials, to lore and hobby tips. Also does gaming overviews for various military themed video games. Be warned that some disagree with his interpretation of 40k lore, that being that he thinks of everything as both canon, and non-canon, which is a skubby topic in and of itself for some fans. That said, he's very good about disclaiming if something veers into his own theories or interpretations, and as anybody who has seen his work can attest, he is very thorough in his research; his 40K Dark Origins series is a good example of this. Has had an amusing time trying to figure out whether Abbadon is pronounced A-bad-un or Abba-don, and to a lesser extent, how to pronounce Roboute Guilliman's name.

Majorkill

An Aussie that covers both 40k and Fantasy/AoS lore with an avant garde (read: vulgar and bombastic) flair. He also plays the hobby, and his Patreon contains a lot of commissioned PROMOTIONS!. He is also currently the fastest growing Warhammer Youtuber, making a goal out of overtaking other Warhammer Youtubers in subscriber count, following them up with a video discussing said creators. If you have a decent attention span, watch Luetin. If you have raging ADHD, watch Majorkill.

While often dismissed for bouts of shock jockism and edgelord humor, there is a difference between Majorkill's behavior and the likes of say, Arch and Commissar Gamza; two individuals hated for their juvenile assholishness. While all three have used slurs and unpleasant language, Majorkill's has generally only been used for shock and humor that usually stops just short of becoming distasteful, by contrast Gamza's usage tends to be far more immersion-breaking, emotionally-affected, unironic, or uncomfortable (such as when he used rather homophobic language to refer to modern Sisters Repentia models) and Arch is Arch. It's also worth noting that his edginess declined over time, or perhaps just more refined and well-timed, so consider that another boon in his favor. Perhaps more importantly though, the production quality of his output in general has improved.

Mark Louis Spark

Creates 3D model renders and is currently in the process of making a Horus Heresy movie called "Death of Hope". Judging from what we've seen so far it looks great, and hopefully won't go the same way as Lord Inquisitor.

Unfortunately, as of 08/2020 the worst has indeed happened, and he has decided to only release the second of his three planned major videos, saying that a grueling RL work schedule, combined with the negative responses he got about his animation draining him of his passion for the project, has begun to negatively affect his personal life. He's made a video on his channel that has the full explanation, and while he is now in a better mind set after a few days from the initial announcement he has committed to taking a break after part 2, and part 3's status will be up in the air for the foreseeable future.

MiniWarGaming

A large network of Neckbeards playing a variety of wargames, chief among them the Warhammers. Most of their content is more for entertainment than hardcore gameplay, so expect flubbed rules. Also moulds that make you go to sleep

Oculus Imperia

Makes detailed 40K lore videos narrated from an in-universe point of view as an Imperial scholar. Topics range from histories and tactics of Space Marine Chapters and Titan Legions to individual incidents in Imperial history. Also dabbles in Age of Sigmar lore as the in-universe dreams of his scholar character.

PancreasNoWork

A guy with diabetes which does videos on Warhammer (Fantasy, 40k and AoS), with some ventures into Halo and Battletech. Approaches this with Lore, Gameplay and Themes straightforwardly. A self styled "Eldar Simp" with usually a very dry sense of humour. He also does not like Bretonnia (in the lore) and Khorne (on the tabletop) at all, so discretion is advised for their respective fans.

Play On Tabletop

Likeable outgoing nerds that play 40k. Best known for their 40kin40^ishminutes battlereports, which are well-produced and professionally edited, so you're not watching literal hours of tedious gameplay. Like most playgroups, it's a diverse bunch, with some guys playing unoptimized fluff lists, while other players stack on the cheese; they even have a salty space marine player. They've since branched out to other games. Their posting schedule can be pretty irregular, and they occasionally fuck up the rules every now and then, but Play On is still a solid channel.

Primaris

After being inspired by the Astartes series, this guy has decided to create his own based on some Black Templars. So far the animation looks a little rougher but still very good production wise. Like Astartes and Richard Boylan, is working with GW, and his project has been renamed Altar of Wrath.

Richard Boylan

Creates videos in SFM and the like. Is responsible for turning Helsreach into a YouTube series, and made a live action 40K video that didn't suck (see, it can be done). Is currently in talks with GeeDubs themselves for an official animated special involving the Blood Angels.

Snipe and Wib

A gaming couple with a love for 40K. They create a wide array of content, from vlogs to gameplay videos. Created two videos about Rogue Trader that more or less brought their channel into the light, and done look backs on other famous old 40k rule books. Both are in a band called "Fighting Evil is Cool", and Wib's real name is Matt Ward (no really; he's not that Matt Ward, just shares a name with him). Wib also has his own channel "Wib Does Stuff", where every two months he showcases the minis he's painted. Oh, and both have been in TTS.

SODAZ

Animator who makes surprisingly high quality videos in source filmmaker. Also hired by GW and thus removed 40k related content from his channel (again, fuck copyright law) though he continues to make other videos on his spare time and fortunately his removed videos have been uploaded by other users.

Until around July 2021, when some people harassed him and he rejected GW's offer to work for them. Thanks guys.

StrikingScorpion82

Purely 40K gameplay, specializing mostly in longform and technical batreps. Great for learning how to play a faction in a fun but competitive way.

TableTopGuard

Ork/Necron specialist who has been putting out a lot of content in the lead up to 9th Edition. Pretty nicely written, in-depth videos on tactics that don't beat around the bush.

Appears to be quitting the tactics business because of Games Workshop's policies.

Tabletop Tactics

Wargamers who are a mix of Striking Scorpion 82 and Mini War Gaming. Their lists can range from really good and competitive, to very fun and enjoyable.

Tactica Imperialis

Creates lore videos on 40K and gives her thoughts on the tabletop game. She also does a podcast with 40K Theories.

Tarriff

A Legendary Lord of the Memer faction, Tarriff creates pithy (rarely longer than a minute aside from compilations of previous works) humorous videos mostly based on Total War: Warhammer gameplay - though Tarriff is not immune to making ones of just Warhammer Fantasy's universe in general (such as this one on Nippon). The animation and editing is fairly crude, but he compensates Imperial Guard-style by having made literally hundreds of videos that get the funny job done. Basically worth checking out if you're into a quick laugh (which is everyone) and Total War: Warhammer.

The Rememberencer

A fledgling Warhammer 40K lore channel with a consistent upload schedule that focuses mostly on Imperium. Its main subjects are figures from the Imperium (with plenty of lesser-known ones included) and traitor legions, Imperial institutions and regiments, and Imperial wargear. These stories are told like it is told by a Rememberencer of the Imperium hence giving the name of the channel (Awesome Tech priest voiceover included with wargear videos.).

ThunderPsyker

Voices Little Kitten in TTS and Kitten in Hunter: The Parenting (this is a theme for 40K content creators) and has made some ace reviews of the Dawn of War series. Definitely worth a watch, even if his upload rate is excruciatingly slow. However, his surprisingly thorough and experienced based retrospectives are entirely worth it.

Winters SEO

A 40k wargamer from England. He plays a plethora of armies. Generally a decent guy and one of the first Youtube batrep guys. Really LOATHES Chapter Master Valrak for reasons similar to what we have stated above. Good for watching while building, painting, or just to see a nice game.

ZoranTheBear

Voices - you guessed it - TTS characters, in particular Leman Russ, but also has a YouTube channel he would upload games to, usually with a 40K twist to it. However, he's largely abandoned the channel in favor of his Twitch channel. Besides gaming he also does some 40k army building and roleplaying on the side. Most recently Zoran and other members of the TTS cast have started a Wrath and Glory livestream series called WarHams, which he uploads to his channel.

Narrative Declaration

Formerly WarHams. After both WarHams and WarHams Fantasy folded (Blame GW's IP policies if you're curious), Zoran and crew decided to reshuffle their setup into something less dependent on any single setting and are now a more generic RPG channel with livestreams, their first being a Pathfinder Second Edition game called "Rotgrind". And before you ask, yes, both WarHams campaigns are on there too.

2+ Tough

Primarily an Age of Sigmar lore channel, with some 40K, Necromunda and other games occasionally being covered. Doug is the host, and he focuses on short and easily digested lore videos, all with a laid back and down to earth presentation. Also hosts painting livestreams, where he answers lore questions and interacts with other Warhammer Youtubers. Works together/shares a Discord server with Rerolling Ones, who generally provide 40K and AoS battle reports.

40K Theories

Starring Remleiz and Naerina, 40K Theories makes general lore videos, videos theorizing reasons for the unexplained in 40K, and videos spotlighting fan-made factions. Unsurprisingly, both Remleiz and Naerina occasionally lend their voices to TTS.

D&D and Pathfinder Creators

Channels that just do readings of stories taken from Reddit and 4chan's /tg/ don't count.

Dungeons & Dragons

This is the official channel for D&D where the creators discuss new products and the game's lore and you can see the official product trailers.

D&D Beyond

The official channel of the D&D Beyond app, which includes interviews with the creators of D&D and with famous D&D players and dungeon masters.

Adan

A less popular but still worth checking out animator who does D&D videos, both based on his campaigns and short skits that make fun of the typical players and events you will likely encounter while playing D&D. Also makes a few songs about D&D. He also has recently started making videos that poke fun at Final Fantasy XIV.

AJ Pickett

Another guy who did videos on D&D lore. Has recently been trying to branch out to other settings and creatures besides D&D due to the disastrous fuckup that was how Hasbro tried to undo the OCL, leading the Paizo spearheading the creation of ORC.

Blaine Simple

Another less popular but worth checking out animator who does D&D stories and videos on how to make character builds based on popular anime characters. Also creates homebrew rules to further make it easier to make anime characters.

CaptCorajus

While most D&D channels focus on D&D 5e, Corajus here focuses on the old school rules ranging from the original Little Brown Box to AD&D 2e with videos covering not only the rules but also reviews of a lot of older adventures such as The Keep on the Borderlands and the Against the Giants line.

Critical Role

The show where a bunch of nerdy-ass voice actors sit around and play Dungeons and Dragons. A Twitch live-show (episodes are later uploaded on YouTube) where DM Matthew Mercer guides fellow voice-actors in adventures in the land of Exandria. Their 1st campaign is being turned on an animation aired on Amazon Prime. For more details, they have their own page.

Dingo Doodles

Another animator who rivals Puffin Forest in popularity. Mostly makes videos telling funny stories about her life and D&D. Her main campaign story is Fool's Gold, an epic and extremely wacky adventure staring her character Sips, a badass chaotic good uplifted monkey wild magic sorcerer full of RAGE, who constantly is breaking the campaign, much to the frustration of her boyfriend Felix the DM.

Hit Point Press ran a Kickstarter campaign to fund the release of a 5e campaign setting based on Fool's Gold, which will be titled "Fool's Gold: Into the Bellowing Wilds". The initial goal was met almost instantly and raised close to 2.5 million dollars total.

the DM Lair

Makes videos on running the game for DMs.

Don't Stop Thinking

Another great animated channel that does videos discussing D&D and other RPGs, as well as telling D&D stories.

Dungeon Dad

Makes videos about adapting various monsters to 5th edition D&D, including providing stat blocks. Most monsters are from earlier editions but he occasionally does monster from pathfinder or other media.

Ed Greenwood

Surprise, surprise. Ed Greenwood, the man responsible for Forgotten Realms actually has a Youtube channel so he can discuss about some of the finer points of the lore.

Esper the Bard

Most famous for his videos where he does rankings of D&D monsters and classes but also has campaign videos, tutorials on how to draw maps, original stories, and more.

Hidden Nerdy Side

Makes videos on ideas for encounters with different monsters that you could include in your campaigns and also videos on how to be a better player and DM.

Hour of the Raven

A Brazilian channel in both English and Portuguese. Gabriel focuses on in depth various aspects of the Ravenloft Campaign Setting.

JoCat

An animator who makes self-described crap guides to D&D in the style of Zero Punctuation. Technically more well known for other content (particularly his Crap Guides to Monster Hunter), but his D&D stuff is what makes him known to /tg/.

Jorphdan

The PH is silent. Yet another popular lore video maker.

MrRhexx

Does lore videos on D&D and other games.

Mr. Welch

The legendary Mr. Welch himself has a YouTube channel, where he reviews RPGs and discusses the Mystara setting. Expect a few tongue in cheek jabs at the Forgotten Realms setting here and there.

Nerdarchy

Has a massive number of videos on playing D&D with everything from suggestions on what monsters to use in a campaign, to what the best character builds are for different races, and more.

Nerd Immersion

Does reviews of D&D products and DM's Guild modules, top 10 lists, advice on playing the game, updates on D&D news, and more. He also uploads videos of a campaign he plays in called Scale Bound.

Pointy Hat

Makes videos on putting new spins on classic elements of D&D, such as interesting new subraces for races that he finds boring, like less Mary Sueish elves and Halflings who have bad luck instead of good. One of his coolest creations is an undead bard who functions similarly to a lich but maintains their existence using a song instead of a phylactery and can only be destroyed by erasing all knowledge of that song from the world.

Puffin Forest

Probably the number 1 most popular D&D animator on youtube. While his animation is far from being the best (his art style is worse than Order of the Stick), he more than makes up for it with his great sense of humor and amount of content. He mostly talks about D&D, but he occasionally does videos about Call of Cthulhu and other games and more recently has started doing videos on Magic: The Gathering. Most of his videos tell funny stories about stuff that happened to him during tabletop games (both as a player and a game master). In others he reviews tabletop games and gives advice to players and game masters. He also has started doing longer video series where he retells entire campaigns in more detail but with without animation, starting with a (relatively) serious Curse of Strahd campaign. Because of how popular he is, he frequently has crossovers with other D&D youtubers including Zee Bashew and Dingo Doodles.

He is a bit Skubby to some because many people on /tg/ find his funny stories to be too unbelievable or find them to be cringy instead of funny because he comes off as a That Guy in some of them. He enjoys making ridiculous characters and has admitted that he used to frequently do stuff that would sabotage his party just because it was funny in his early games and as a DM he sometimes can be a little too sadistic. His defenders argue that he is purposefully making himself look worse than he actually is for humor.

He really doesn't like 4th edition D&D, mainly due to having several bad experiences with it playing with bad DMs, but then again he is definitely not a good DM of 4th edition either, as can be seen in his let's play he ran where he just flat out did not know the rules and forced a huge group of newbies to the system to play the game in an absolutely horrendous fashion before going into a long chat about how much they dislike the system based on how it was played. Seriously, the guy took a group of like 10 people and made them roll up level 8 characters (something the DMG says you shouldn't do) and then threw monsters at them that were better suited for parties in the Paragon Tier. Even with the 8 characters the math doesn't work out and then they complain that the game is too hard while he insists "I'm just running it rules as written."

Reba Derps

Another D&D animator with a style similar to Dingo Doodles.

Runesmith

Runesmith’s yet another guy who makes D&D lore videos. He has also delved into writing encounter guides, creating supplements on Kickstarter, and recently also recapping old folk tales Internet Historian-style with some friend.

Seth Skorkowsky

Does reviews of RPGs and RPG modules, gives advice on running games, and his videos on table etiquette are all really good. Has several great videos giving reviews of older AD&D modules. Focuses far more on other systems such as Call of Cthulhu and Traveller and is also an author as well. His tastes are rather limited (he's never touched a dice pool game and can often be relied upon to criticize any system he examines that diverges from the D&D/Cyberpunk 2020 /Traveller/Cthulhu rules and style he's familiar with for diverging from it), but his style is generally warm, friendly, and non-confrontational about matters of taste, and his RPG philosophy videos usually contain good advice that focuses on the right things.

T the Writer

Unlike most channels that tell D&D stories, this guy does longer videos telling about his campaigns in detail.

Tulok the Barbrarian

Makes videos on how to make Dungeons & Dragons characters based on popular movie, anime, video game, and comic book characters.

XP to Level 3

A good non-animated channel that does videos on D&D, telling interesting stories and giving useful tips on playing the game. And also video sketches on the shenanigans of a certain Wizard. Besides the obvious series of videos starring the fireball obsessed Wizard, two of his serieses are "HOW TO PLAY (insert class here)" in which he discusses the rules and features of the classes and subclasses; with humor based on what they are and "(insert topic) is Dumb" in which he describes gripes with 5e; such as the lack of true Flanking due to it granting Advantage (rather than being a separate mechanic or bonus) and it being too easy to use and Intelligence's lack of uses. Also discusses homebrew to an extent; both solutions to some of the (insert topic) is Dumb videos and separate homebrews. Also known for hating Tomb of Horrors; believing it to be a dungeon designed purely around fucking with the players and taking them for a ride rather than being a legitimate challenge and ignoring that D&D was a pretty different game in the early days and, contrary to the adage, most of the times it was in fact players vs. DM.

Zee Bashew

An animator who makes D&D-related animations on how to use spells, run games, and just general D&D things. It's fun and worth a look if you're new to D&D. His most notable series is the Animated Spellbook; which as the name implies, goes over a multitude of spells such as Magic Missile, Haste and Feather Fall. These videos generally are more than showcasing the immediate "gameplay" implications of the spells and more roleplay and even strategic implications. For example, Good Berry is criticized and homebrewed to consume its material components due to its insane power during survival stories; while Magic Missile's entry is kind of a history lesson regarding how far back in DnD's history it went, with speculation that it may have been named as a homage to Chainmail.

BattleTech Creators

Black Pants Legion/Tex

A miscellaneous, mostly SS13 content, in which a guy named Tex makes a series called Tex Talks Battletech, which goes into detailed, sometimes embellished (due to being an Inner Sphere supporter) accounts of mechs and history of Battletech universe.

He used to frequent /tg/ back in the day, when it used to be cool, and takes credit for writing the original Fur Heresy.

Critical Rocket

A Battletech fan channel, Critical Rocket makes a series of lore videos called Lorewarrior.

Call of Cthulhu Creators

Petersen Games

The official channel for the peeps behind Call of Cthulhu and various other tabletop games. Sandy himself has his own channel Sandy of Cthulhu, where he tends to discuss more generalized topics

Lancer Creators

DragonKid11

One part memer, one part guidebook, DragonKid discusses quite a lot about each of the various officially available frames, rules, lore and even a couple fan-made homebrews as well. He also did some Battletech stuff as well, but kinda discontinued it when he saw just how much more he got out of the Lancer stuff. He's also working on guides to Flying Circus, a PbtA-styled game about World War era dogfighting through the lens of Miyazaki, alongside shilling for various smaller RPGs of a similar feel to Lancer.

General War-gaming Creators

Guerrilla Miniature Games

If you are interested in any particular miniature game (Both new and old), it is likely that he has at least 2 or 3 videos covering it. Also covers the larger games like 40K, AOS, Infinity etc... Is a war-game designer himself [Made Last Days: Zombies Apocalypse] and a fairly skilled painter. Overall his channel takes a holistic approach to the hobby and is also fairly chill in his videos, also is not afraid to admit when he dislikes a game or mechanic and doesn't put on act for the videos.

Little Wars TV

Possibly the historical war-gaming channel with a great variety of historical wargames played, showcased, and reviewed on this channel, with some fictional wargames (mostly mainstream-public, like Star Wars) also featured here. These guys are a hardcore, dedicated but also easy-going historical group based in the US and will play almost any historical system, and will often dress up for the occasion as well. Highly recommended if you're looking at those Napoleonic Wars or other historical models and wondering if they'll be as worth it as that 40k battalion box on the next shelf.

Miniature Painting/Hobbying Channels

A lot of theses channels do cover Warhammer content, but is primarily focused on the making and painting of minis

Darren Latham Miniature Painting

Yes, THAT Darren Latham, former 'Eavy Metal painter and GW sculptor, Darren Latham had a YouTube channel where he would share some of his techniques in guides for how to get that award winning paintjob.

Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy

Our Lord and Savior Duncan Rhodes' personal Youtube channel after parting ways with Geedubs. All of his videos are guides to show his painting prowess, though now he's not bound to only GW materials. Generally the same sort of format as his Warhammer Community guides.

Dungeon Miser

Short and amenable videos displaying quite accessible techniques to get miniatures for Dungeons and Dragons and war games. Do not expect breathtaking quality, it is not the objective, it is about for the cheapest expenses to get the bare minimum results (miniatures) that get job done for your hobby. Hilarious the breakdown of costs, but also a good start to learn about modeling, at an unbeatable cost (cheap pun intended).

Eric's Hobby Workshop

Makes less painting videos and more terrain builds, but overall very helpful in building stuff , perfect for Mordheim players because of the historical research he puts into each build and good for Bretonnian fans since he has a collecting guide. Currently working on making a 7 foot tall Imperator Titan that can have the top parts removed to work as KillTeam/Necromunda boards.

Midwinter Minis

Guy makes really well done painting tutorials, including some retro designs. He has really good guides on how to easily create certain effects (like OSL) that most people would use an Airbrush for. Also makes small scale battle reports that make the game easier to understand.

Miniac

Painting channel that has guides, reviews, and generally just painting miniatures. A rather humorous fellow, with small skits in his videos, and always end his videos with the demand that you "Paint More Minis!". A bit more of an amateur than some of the other channels, and has been learning more about painting techniques and concepts over time.

Night Shift

Who is this? Well, Night Shift is a scale modeler, which means that he uses a lot of techniques that are pretty alien to the vast majority of Wargamers, such as oil painting, enamel washes, advanced weathering techniques, making rivets and other items out of aluminium foil or metal sheets, etc. Primarily makes model tanks and ground vehicles, and is a rather humorous fellow.

Pete The Wargamer

An extremely good kitbasher, has guides on how to basically kitbash anything in Warhammer, from Chaos Legions, a vampire lord from Sigvald, to a freaking Necrofex Colossus. Really great inspiration for your own kitbashes. Also makes painting guides, which are pretty decent, but not on the level of the more advanced painters here.

Sam Lenz Artwork

Golden Demon winner, and a "metal" fellow. His guides showcases his process from start to finish, with voiceover to explain what and how he's doing. Also has tutorials on Tabletop Minions.

Tabletop Minions

Hosted by "Uncle" Atom, he makes a variety of videos, mostly vlogs about his thoughts and tips for pretty much every aspect of the wargaming hobby, like accessibility, balance, and painting. He also has videos with painting tips, mostly for speedpainting armies, and hosts some tutorials from Golden Demon winner Sam Lenz for more advanced techniques. Hosts a livestream every two weeks on Sunday, where he chats about the hobby. A lot of his content features Warhammer, but most of it is applicable to wargaming in general.

Trovarion Miniatures

French sculptor and Golden Demon winner, Trovarion has a good amount of guides showing techniques and tips for beginner and more advanced painters. Also has a series "'Eavier Than Metal" where he shows how to paint a miniature with more advanced techniques than GW's normal 'Eavy Metal style, with Non-Metallic Metal, freehands, painting texture on surfaces, working with pigments, etc. Has a podcast with Vince Venturella called "Mini Painting Mythbusting", where they at common ideas like needing a sable brush or that NMM is better than normal metallics, and weigh their opinions on them.

Vince Venturella

The man who makes a lot of painting guides, Vince has a guide for pretty much any technique or concept in miniature painting, from highlighting, wetblending, using oil washes, to product reviews and range overviews. Has a weekly podcast "Warhammer Weekly" with some other hosts discussing Age of Sigmar rules and new Warhammer releases/previews. Hosts interviews with miniature painters like Miniac, Darren Latham, and Richard Gray (the guy who does that there amazing freehand). Vince's work has also been shown in Warhammer Community articles for recently released stuff (Warmaster Titan, his Cities of Sigmar Army, Sigvald, etc).

Yu-Gi-Oh Creators

The Duel Logs

A Johnny who makes gimmick deck replays. He has relatively recently made a lot of top 10s, which would be clickbaity if he wasn’t using it as an excuse to talk about weird card interaction and the game’s history. In particular, his “10 worst” videos are great because rather than say the card is shit while spewing profanity, he suggests ways the card can be used, even if they're suboptimal, that make it better than the cards ranked worse than it while being perfectly willing to admit that some categories are so strong even their worst instances are still decent. Makes an effort to explain cards and why they're good/bad very well (in response to disdain for a lot of MTG channels not doing so), so he’s accessible with minimal experience and/or audio only. Also has a World of Warcraft channel and a D&D channel.

Rank 10 YGO (Rata)

A Montenegrin Serb who does in depth overviews of various archetypes (and some other stuff). As befitting of someone whose childhood involved living through the Yugoslav wars, he’s very cynical on Konami’s competence and doesn’t hold back when card design is lackluster, yet actually quite enthusiastic when something does meet his standards. Now a doctor of psychology. Also, he accidentally started the "It's Morbin Time" meme with a mythic tier tweet.

History Channels (The Kind That Don't Show Ancient Aliens 24/7)

Because "realism" is something of a debate, actual Wargaming is a thing, and the general assuming a setting should be "Like Reality Unless Noted", we'll list some good "realism argument" and "actual military history" channels.

Drachinifel

Drachinifel is a British amateur historian Youtuber with a keen interest in naval history focussing on Age of Sail to the end of WW2. Known for his Five Minute Guides on ships (which are almost always over 5 minutes), Wednesday Rum Ration specials on naval topics, and Sunday Drydocks answering Youtube and Patreon questions which range from one hour to 4 hours. Also has an extremely good memory. His most popular videos as of 21 April 2021 are on Operation Rheinubung, USS Texas and the A6M Zero.

Forgotten Weapons

The historical gun guy. He covers the history and specifications of guns, and oh boy, he covers all sorts of guns, from tiny watch sized guns to massive coastal defense cannons, prototypes to production weapons, and oddities like belt buckle guns and homemade poacher muskets. The man is largely an academic and historian , which sets him apart from most gun channels, but he's still got his fair share of goofy moments and memes. Besides looking at the history of each gun and shooting them, he also disassembles them on camera which is a boon for any gun wiz who wants to understand how each piece’s physical contraptions work. When his fans started calling him "Gun Jesus," he fully adopted the meme. If you want to have obscure and weird weapons in your campaign, he's a good place to start looking for such.

History Buffs

This channel focuses on blockbuster films based on history; not only are you given a detailed summary for the historical context of the film, but also notes where the film may deviate from historical accounts; very useful if you were ever shown such a film in history class and developed an inaccurate understanding of the events shown. Film selection includes such classics such as Lawrence of Arabia, Waterloo, Tombstone, etc... as well as some genuine stinkers like Kingdom of Heaven and Timeline. He’s not afraid to say when a movie is garbage as a film even though it’s historically accurate (Alexander), good despite being totally inaccurate (The Untouchables), or has a good reason to be less than accurate (300’s framing device of propagandized oral history). Most will be war films or other genres of action-based historical dramas, like Westerns and Gangster films.

Historical Archery

This channel focuses on bows and crossbows extensively. Compared to other archery or crossbow channels (like Todd's Workshop on historical pieces or JoergSprave focusing on modernized tactical gizmos), he's focused on firing and reconstructing all elastic missile weapons from the past. European or Asian, mounted or infantry, longbow or crossbow, he has it all.

Historia Civilis

Mainly Roman history, told from a top down perspective with coloured squares.

Invicta

Like History Civilis above, but with better art and more of a Roman focus.

Kings and Generals

An excellent channel dedicated to showing in depth military campaigns and battles using the Total War games and custom art and maps. Includes excellent videos on The Romans, Early Muslim Expansion, The Ottomans and The Thirty Years War. Main narrator OfficiallyDevin has two separate channels dedicated to high quality gaming content.

LazerPig

Covering mainly military matters, especially tank history, and mainly focused on common misconceptions and "weird but true" history, such as the various lost US nukes, or that time two converted luxury cruise ships fought a naval battle. Very sarcastic, very drunk, very Scottish.

Lindybeige

Very much a nerd's nerd, and easily mistaken for a crazy homeless man living under a bridge, but he's covered a lot of stuff that's of interest to /tg/. Some topics include discussions on medieval arms and armor, tanks, castles, historical battles, etc. If you want the /tg/ stuff, the "Weapons and Armor" "History" and "Warfare" playlists are of interest. Though take his info with a grain of salt as a lot of his videos contain bad history and he is very biased towards England when it pops up (like saying the Bren Gun is better than the MG-34/42 using a lot of inaccurate information, claiming Napoleon was as bad as Hitler and unironically saying pre-decimal British currency was better) the playlists mentioned above are mostly fine though. He even covers some tabletop-specific gaming material in his various discussions, ranging from scenery creation to fantasy weapon design, to complaints about 4th edition, and even a contest for the creation of a "Surprise Elemental."

Military History Visualized

Austrian historian who makes videos covering various topics about military conflicts, mostly around ww2, but has content from the Roman Empire to the modern day. Unlike some other channels, links to and quotes the sources that he uses for his video, so you know he isn't just talking out of his ass. His videos focus on many different things, military campaigns like Kursk, debunking of common myths or stereotypes, like Soviet mine dogs or the Versailles Treaty, comparisons of military equipment, and just overall interesting stuff like German tactics in ww2. Collaborates with other history channels like Military Aviation History, Drachinifel, and Chieftain, and has a few interviews with German historians. Has a second channel Military History not Visualized which lacks the graphics and has him talking directly to the camera. Good place to start if you want a "historically accurate" campaign, or just to say "Well, actually" in discussions. He also appears on gaming videos and is a frequent guest on his friend Bohica Ice's channel.

Perun

Possibly too contemporary for this list, but incredibly useful for thinking about warfare from an industrial and political perspective, Perun mainly covers the Ukrainian/Russian conflict, from a defense economics perspective using PowerPoint presentations. The thing is, his PowerPoint presentations are insightful, interesting, and funny; and he covers military matters from a perspective that most people avoid: Economics. Particularly recommended for worldbuilding purposes is his video on why war economies don't collapse until they do for how to convincingly end a war, his video on the Wagner group for worldbuilders who are thinking about including mercenaries, and a trilogy of videos that cover three major internal flaws of the Russian army that should give you some good ideas on how to make an interesting bad-guy army (just don't do it to the extent the Russians do, since, as the titles imply, doing too much of these things destroys armies).

Overly Sarcastic Productions

As the name implies, the duo in charge of this channel summarise history, historical figures, and myths both well-known and obscure in gloriously sarcastic (and cartoonish) fashion. Blue usually handles the more historical aspects, while Red covers the literary and mythological. Excellent for getting an overview of parts of history without going into absurd levels of detail, and for learning about commonly-expy'd mythical figures. They also talk about tropes and give writing advice.

Scholagladiatoria

A HEMA instructor and antique sword seller who discusses the details how weapons were actually used and the distinctions between types of swords. Prone to rambling about context.

Shadiversity

A historian and fantasy writer who discuses things about the middle ages you probably didn't know, common misconceptions about the middle ages seen in fiction, how to make fantasy more realistic (for example designing a back scabbard that actually works), reviews of fantasy movies and tv shows, and more. He tends to ramble a lot though, so be ready to do a lot of time-skipping or go look somewhere else if you want a straightforward answer.

Skallagrim

The other historical weapon and fantasy Youtube Channel, he's just as likely as Shadiversity to look at pop culture dispays of melee weaponry and lampoon how film, tv, or game directors screw things up for the sake of visual appeals to modern audiences.

TimeGhost

The guys best known for running a "World War II: Week by week", a channel that covers World War II, week by week, in real time, and, with a different presenter, The Great War, which is more or less the same thing for WWI. Indiana Neidell, the primary presenter did the week by week coverage on the Great War channel and has moved on with some of the crew to the World War 2 and Time Ghost channels. The Great War channel continues with the post war events.

Tod's Workshop

Propmaker and engineer Tod Todeschini covering various replicas of antique arms he has made. While many channels talk about the history of the weapons, Tod's Workshop uniquely focuses on their construction and the physics reasons they are the way they are. Of particular note is his crossbow series, where he covers the history, power and mechanical design of many, many types of crossbows, and his ongoing "Lockdown Longbow" series where he uses a crossbow capable of firing arrows at the same speed as a longbow to test how different types of armour fare against a variety of arrows. He also built many of the weapons used in the Netflix version of The Witcher.

Townsends

A series focused on the day to day life of 18th and early 19th Century America. This means it covers a wide variety of topics including construction, clothing, music, laundry, writing, brewing, and (especially) cooking instead of the military campaigns typical of history lessons. Despite the late focus, most of what it covers is applicable to pre-industrial society in general and it often talks of how things were done before this, giving you an idea of the day-to-day life of a pre-modern commoner. Be sure to be well-stocked on nutmeg.

The Chieftain's Hatch

A tank commander and tank historian does examinations and explanations of old tanks (The guy happens to be World of Tanks' in-house historian, and has done multiple talks at the Tank Museum at Bovington). Also some model tanks. He's also a contributor to the channel World War Two week by week.

Voices of the Past

Dramatic readings of primary sources from history, with some annotations on things like conversions for historical units and present day locations. The words of sources like Marco Polo on anything, Aztecs on Conquistadors, Europeans on Japan, Japan on America/Europe, Rome on China and China on Rome provide excellent fuel for describing alien cultures and strange lands. The accounts of conquistadors slaughtering and looting Aztecs in response to learning of their widespread practice of human sacrifice reads much like the chronicles of a group of Adventurers.

Writing-Related Stuff

For people writing their own campaigns, settings, or other stuff.

Hello Future Me

An Author who breaks down various fictional universes and explains how components of them work. He discusses Imperialism, war, worldbuilding, fallen characters, and even mentor figures in great depth. Has a tendency to heavily reference the Lord of the Rings movies or ATLA for very good reason. Is generally a decent channel if you want to get better at writing, and a nice enough fella who manages to avoid drama like some of our other...*ahem*...inclusions in other sections.

Terrible Writing Advice

Pretty much exactly what it says on the tin: Awful, awful writing advice, delivered sarcastically. Hilarious as all hell, though. Includes references from everything and anything form Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, 40k, DnD, and even Doctor Who. Is also an author himself, but that much should be obvious.

Other

Something to help inspire you from a different type of channel.

Roanoke Gaming

Actually not a /v/idya related content exclusive channel. Roanoke Gaming is a college biologist who covers biology of Creatures, Diseases, and the like from various fictional sources. He has covered Space Marines, but also more obscure things like the monster from the film The Relic, the Necromorphs from Dead Space, and Super Mutants from Fallout. If you want an explanation for the cause of a creature or disease in your game, he could give good lore inspirations.

Skub Containment Zone

This article or section is about a topic that is particularly prone to Skub (that is, really loud and/or stupid arguments). Edit at your own risk, and read with a grain of salt, as skubby subjects have a bad habit of causing stupid, even in neutrals trying to summarize the situation.

The following are too skubby to be included in the main lists. Note that inclusion in this list is not about quality, but rather controversy: A sufficiently large group dislikes them that it can be safely said that they fall very firmly under a "Love or Hate" status, and invariably edit wars start when they are mentioned. Either way, they're directly /tg/ relevant, and they come up on /tg/, so we're listing them here anyway. In other words: You may not like the following, based on how many people don't.

Arch (formerly Arch Warhammer)

Arch (formerly Arch Warhammer) makes Warhammer 40k and Horus Heresy lore videos, both in general format ("Who are the Mortifactors" "What is a Titan?") and longer, multi-video works ("What was the Badab War?" "What was the The Siege of Vraks?"). Also covers video games, especially Warhammer video games, as well as occasionally dipping into edgelordery, /pol/itics, general controversy, and drama. Is generally considered the living avatar of Skub due to multiple controversies not detailed here; if you wish to know more, don't worry, someone will probably tell you.

Commissar Gamza (Gamza)

Where to begin with That Guy? Whereas Arch may have the pretense of intellectual reasoning or at least some irony to cover for his skub, Gamza has little to no such inclination. Originally starting out as a 40k painting and DIY terrain channel, he later jumped into more confrontational subject matter directed towards GW and the Warhammer Community at large. However, his hate boner for GW eventually started to go beyond reasonable criticism and frustration, and more into outright stoking drama for clickbait and outrage. More so, his "sense of humor" began to slip into a more un-ironic, cringey and self deluded nature. So much so that when he got into a spat with Majorkill in 2020 about the state of Grimdark in 40k as a setting, he ended up deleting whole swathes of his channel's videos, virtually all of his clickbait rants and argument responses. Tried and failed to rebrand his channel as an edgy streamer, but was too fugly and toxic, to the point that most Fa/tg/uys would cringe. Eventually came back in late 2021 as a 40k channel, focusing primarily on 3d printing and dipping back into his usual GW rage bait.

Counter Monkey (Noah Antwiler, aka The Spoony One)

We have an article on him already. Go read that for the details.

Norn Queen Alexis

A female WH40k poster; if you've heard of her, it's probably because she voiced Miriael Sabathiel in TTS. Has videos about Tactic, battle reports, reviews and reactions, mostly based around Sisters of Battle. So, why is she here? Well, she's the type that claims to promote a "LGBTQA+ and Women friendly atmosphere", which means that the usual suspects are in the usual forever war about her. Add in some controversy about her former association with Games Workshop we're not going to get into here, and you have a prime candidate for High Skubbery, regardless of the quality of her content.

On September 2021, she gained controversy for having doxxed a Games Workshop employee who had sent her an image showing a GW NDA page, and reporting them to Games Workshop. She also had an argument with one of the first people addressing the NDA situation; claiming he baited her. She has since deleted her Twitter due to the negative reaction and has even started deleting comments on her latest Youtube video that even mentions the doxxing. Despite declaring she was LANCB to the 40K community in the aftermath of this controversy, it swiftly proved to be little more than a flounce as she began posting 40k videos two months later.

OneMindSyndicate

OneMindSyndicate (abbreviated OMS) exclusively covers 40k lore. However, they are disliked due to doing so in the most monotonous way possible, making even normies cringe from sheer boredom, and they quote too much from the source material making it less digestable. If you want dry, matter-of-fact lore coverage with no originality, this is the place - and yes, there is already an audience for that, if their sub count is any indication.

(The) Outer Circle

The third of the three P's of Warhammer video channels, with Arch being Pretentious and Gamza being Petulant, Outer Circle falls quite well into the Pedantic category. An Australian channel that has an emphasis on Horus Heresy topics, including tactics, list building, and visual style. His ranting and meandering commentary videos are filled to the brim with nitpicking bitterness, going on numerous tangents about the state of the hobby or styles not matching up to the point of ad nauseam. While his attention to detail and certain commentaries on lore and visuals has some merit, it tends to be undermined by his overall attitude and presentation. When he started making videos whining about comments on his Warhammer videos, it began to be a bit sad to watch.

StringStorm

Made music for TTS and a bunch of Warhammer-themed music as well. Also created a 40K Singing Idol contest series thing. Because of course he did. Had moved to Battletech as part of the 40k-Battletech memegration migration. While his songs reflect a love of the particular work, occasionally his vocals somewhat underperform. However, his instrumentals are incredibly strong.

...Or at least they were. Come 2023 and, in an unusual move, he decided to come clean about (once?) being one of those kinds of Slaanesh worshippers and ended their association with Alfa and co. since it was obvious to anyone with a brain that this wouldn't be taken well. Needless to say, the entire Warhammer and Ogre Poppenang communities, including /tg/, were blindsided by this and reacted accordingly. However, as of writing the situation is still fresh with several details uncertain, hence why they're still here instead of being removed entirely from the list. However, it ain't looking good.