MiniWarGaming
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Co-founded by neckbeards Dave and Matt (although the latter prefered glasses instead of facial hair), MiniWarGaming is one of the best known gaming groups online, hailing from glorious Canuckistan, Canada. They originally had a gamestore in addition to their cool Youtube channel until That Guy Tom Kirby messed up with GW sales rules. They switched to bringing a physical space for wargamers to play in very cool themed war-rooms at The Vault in exchange of a fair quote. They still make tons of videos which are very good for anyone who just wants to enjoy watching a good tabletop fight, see them discussing about a wide array of tabletop news and topics, or get introduced to the hobby. Dave and Matt has a team of employees who help them in their mission to do all the stuff needed to keep the business running. Each are really cool guys, each one with his own quirks (no, not Quirk, who is part of the team too) and backgrounds.
It is well known that if there was justice on this world these guys would be the headstaff of Games Workshop.
The Team
Dave
Co-founder and wearer of a badass beard and long hair, Dave is well known for being a Chaos and Blood Angels player, and runs the Shrine of Chaos commentary section as well as Life of a War-gamer slice-of-life section. Like any self-respecting melee-oriented gamer, he hates the Tau with a passion, although he never takes it personally if someone plays them (otherwise it wouldn't have been possible for him to be friends with Matt). As you may imagine, he is the crazy red oni to the calm blue oni Matt, not that Matt doesn't have his moments too. He usually has a very cheerful personality and likes to joke a lot, he accepts challenges from anyone around the world to show the prowess of his Chaos and Blood Angels armies. His filmed games are titled "Banter Batrep" for a reason - there's a lot of chatter and they can get very silly.
Matt
The other co-founder, a calm and soft-spoken guy (except when he is playing, but come on who hasn't got bumped up when rolling the die). In some ways, he is the opposite of Dave as he seems to have a range-oriented playstyle. He is a long-time Tyranid player, even during the period where they were having a bad time, which shows how he would prefer to actually have a fun game rather than curb-stomp your opponent. This doesn't mean that he could easily do that too (thanks to his blue-themed Necron army). He also runs the Sit And Talk Q&A vlog, and isn't afraid of talking about serious stuff like religion (like Dave he is Mormon, unlike Anne Rice, we are totally ok about that), politics, society and some other off-topic stuff fans may like to ask. Like Dave, he accepts challenges from all around the world in his the battle reports. He does a funky dance at the start of his batreps, for whatever reason.
STEEEVEEEEE
AKA The Mountain, an elegan/tg/entleman who likes to have a good fight, discussing the rules and helping with the videos. Steve helped creating some homebrew rules for playing a point based system for Age of Sigmar. MWG's resident Eldar/Dark Eldar player as well as the main host Old World Wars, MWG's Warhammer Fantasy show. Though he has played almost every army, he mainly plays High Elves, Lizardmen and owns a Vampire Count army he claims not to like and has even try to sell on occasion.
Josh
Plays for Sandwiches. Has a massive beard that makes him have to use an old-school mic instead of the clip-on style everyone else uses. Before working at MWG, Josh was once a player back when they had a store playing in some of the original Warmachine League series.
Quirk
Is most known for playing Orks and for playing with 2 wound lootas. Bearer of terrible rolls and an equally terrible mohawk. He was the resident Warmachine player until they recently stopped covering it. Also he shortly hosted MiniWargaming Plays, a show based on GW themed video games, but this was also shut down as well.
Kris
Bearer of epic hair (both facial and cranial), Kris is MWG's senior painting guru. He provides the vast majority of their painting and model building tutorials and has his own live show, Way of the Brush, on Saturdays.
Former Members
Dan
A passionate and avid Ork player who wears a quite epic beard able to rival many. He was a big part of the team until he sadly had to leave MWG, moving away. Dan is very excited and loved playing, getting into his role of an Ork with the most impressive WAAA(Gh)s on the site (Even though he did also play Tau for a while). Dan was sort of a middleground between Matt and Dave, having a lot of enthusiasm with the game but being a more calm person. Dave and Dan are were close friends and Dave sees Dan as his battle brother. Dan still makes videos on 40k and Warmachine on his own channel, Codex Dan.
Leland
Left around December 2015 due to reasons Matt will not disclose (as is usual with businesses). However it does not seem to be in bad blood as he commented positively on MWG website and video short was released with him in it shortly after his departure. Sadly with his departure this brought an end to the Infinity videos as he was the only one who played them. Though Matt claims that Infinity was going to get in the way of their 30k videos anyways.
Jay
AKA MiniWarGamer Jay. He moved away from the area where MWG is located and and thus had to leave. He has his own YouTube channel for 40K batreps and painting tutorials. He's best known for his big eyes, which Dave calls back to with a "Hi, Jay!" whenever he rolls snake-eyes.
Owen
AKA The Cooler, due to people's dice going Fenrisian whenever he walked into the room. He has his own gaming channel on YouTube.
Ash
A former GW employee who worked for MWG for about a year then left. Ash played a wide variety of games. He now runs Guerrilla Miniature Games YouTube channel and Patreon.