It’s 50 years of Warhammer, and GW’s celebrating by giving away more minis than your FLGS has seen in months.
Games Workshop is feeling sentimental. Maybe it’s the smell of old White Dwarfs, or maybe someone finally found the 90s prize closet buried under unopened Finecast boxes. Either way, GW’s celebrating 50 years of Warhammer by giving away a mountain of stuff; more than 65 prizes, including Warhammer Quest: Darkwater, stacks of miniatures, and enough merch to make a store manager cry.
And yes, you read that right. Free. Just log into your My Warhammer account before 11:59 PM GMT on November 25, 2025, and you’re automatically in the running to win. No entry fee, no painting competition, no essay about “what the hobby means to you.”
Just click, pray, and hope the algorithm likes you this week. Here are the details.
GW Taps 90’s Nostalgia For a Free Warhammer Giveaway
In true 90s fashion, GW’s announcement comes with the energy of an old-school White Dwarf giveaway. They even threw in a nostalgic image of an employee surrounded by boxes upon boxes of loot, back when you could still buy metal models and your paints came in those leaky hex pots.
But don’t get too misty-eyed.
This isn’t a trip down memory lane so much as it is a reminder that GW still knows how to move product, even when it’s not technically for sale.
After all, if your FLGS got allocated four boxes of the latest release, this giveaway probably has five of them sitting in a warehouse marked “Marketing Stunt: Do Not Ship.”
The Prize Pool: More Minis Than Your Store Got This Month
GW says there are “more than 65 prizes,” but here’s the fun part: we can’t figure out the retail value of Darkwater because it’s all mashed together with everything else.
Games Workshop has also figured out how to do a giveaway for something that isnt even released yet, which may keep people from pre-ordering it. So the giveaway will probably end before Darkwater even goes up for pre-order.
Either way, if you win, congrats! You’ll get more miniatures than most stores have seen in a restock cycle. If you don’t, well, you’ll still get the same thing as usual: a polite “sold out” message…
The Rules (Because Lawyers Still Exist in the Grimdark)
Here’s the short version:
- Sign in or make a My Warhammer account.
- Do it before November 25 at 11:59 PM GMT.
- Be 18 or older, live somewhere GW ships to, and hope you’re luckier than your last dice roll.
No purchase necessary, though let’s be honest, you’ll probably make one anyway once you log in and see all the new pre-orders.
Why Thier Giveaway Still Works Despite Empty Shelves…
Let’s be honest: it’s smart.
We all love free stuff, and the nostalgia hook hits hard. It’s been 50 years of painting, gluing, and complaining about prices, and this giveaway gives everyone a small hit of dopamine before the next price rise.
It’s also a clever way to get everyone back into My Warhammer, which is quickly becoming the digital version of the Adeptus Administratum.
The Real Question: Is This Where All the Allocations Went?
Local game stores have been crying allocation tears for years, scraping by on three Battleforces per faction while GW’s PR department casually drops a mountain of freebies.
Coincidence? Maybe.
Convenient? Absolutely.
If your store didn’t get enough Christmas Battleforces this year, now you know where to direct your prayers. Obviously, this isn’t enough to impact stores, just a little off-putting when most stores can’t get enough to sell.
Final Thoughts From Us (Before the Nostalgia Wears Off)
This is peak Games Workshop energy: celebrate five decades of the hobby by reminding us all how it started with stocked shelves, and how it’s going now: FOMO, limited stock, and blind hope.
It’s a nostalgic full circle.
So yes, go log into My Warhammer and enter. Maybe you’ll win big with the latest GW giveaway. Maybe you’ll get an error message. Either way, you’ll feel like you’re part of something historic, and GW gets another tick in their engagement metrics.
See the Latest GW Previews From WCW
