Peter Holland

I’m the CEO, COO and CFO of Woehammer, which I started back in 2021 shortly after the birth of my son. It began as my lifeline to the wargaming world, a way to stay immersed in the hobby while sleep-deprived and covered in baby food.

My journey into the grimdark and fantastical realms began in 1994 with the iconic 2nd edition Warhammer 40k boxed set. After a brief hiatus during my university years (2001–2005, apparently they don’t give degrees in miniature painting), I dove back in with a vengeance.

These days, I consider myself more of a painter than a player, although I’m always up for a game of Age of Sigmar, Warhammer 40k, Old World or the occasional Napoleonic skirmish.

Roland Rivera

I’m Roland, and I’m one of Woehammer’s staff writers. I started engaging with the hobby via Warhammer Fantasy Battle in 2010, and while I took a hiatus from it after the End Times, the pandemic (and fatherhood) brought my interest roaring back, and I hopped back in around 2020.
My interest lies much more with the gaming side of the hobby, and you can often find me jamming late-night games of Age of Sigmar on Tabletop Simulator after my kids have gone to bed for the night. I am a devoted fan of the Chaos side of things, particularly Slaves to Darkness (which is my main tournament army), but I appreciate many of the heavily armored melee armies.

Declan Waters

I joined Peter shortly after he started Woehammer as a blog with updates on my hobby and reviews of books and products. I’d always wants to run a blog, but my sporadic writing made this difficult… so Woehammer proved the perfect solution.

I have been wargaming since 1989 with floor-hammer for Space Marine (Epic 40k) and Blood Bowl and then progressing to Warhammer Fantasy. I’ve been going to tournaments since 2002, and after COVID played a lot of tournaments with Big Waaagh, winning a 5 game tournament 5-0 and being invited to the UK masters.

A little one of my own has reduced my tournament attendance so I’m now looking at other hobby projects including Necromunda that have been on the back burner for a while.

I’m also an avid boardgames and Peter keeps asking me to do reviews… so maybe I should get some done soon!

Fitts

I like lists and lists of lists!

I also quite enjoy a bit of Age of Sigmar when I can squeeze in a few games between life, the universe, and everything. I got back into wargaming after having a couple of kids left me with more time at home than I was used to and six years later I’ve got 3.5 AoS armies and I’m starting on another new one. I dived in with Nighthaunt and they will always have a special ghostly place in my heart. I really enjoy a nice casual game but I’m a sucker for trying my hardest to be competitive (especially with wacky lists). So much so, that I’ve even taken up being a TO again just so that I’ve got a local tournament to play in. Luckily, I also rock a few games of Necromunda from time to time… everyone should play more narrative games!

I update the AoS lists archive sporadically (that just means not often enough). You’ll also see a few scattered articles here and there when I get the time. I’m always planning more and constantly have a few drafts on the go at once. You can tell which ones are mine because they’re long and waffly and tend to drift off-topic from time to time… a bit like this intro.

Ian Humpage

I dabble and help with woehammer when I can, usually diving into the narrative side with the odd announcement review tossed in.

I started with Warhammer in the mid-90s after splitting the 4th edition box with my older brother (I was given high elves as he chose night goblins). This led to a lot of army hopping due to my indecisiveness (or maybe the undiagnosed ADHD, as it turns out) so I ended up moving to dwarves, empire, vampire counts, and warriors of chaos before eventually losing interesting my late teens.

I dipped my toe in the odd time but after a complete clear out of all models in my late 20s it seemed like the final nail in the coffin. Then, in my mid-30s when spending a lot of time in hospital at the end of my wife’s first pregnancy, I spotted a white dwarf in the newsagents.

That apparently was enough to trigger the interest (addiction?). Only 5 years (and 2 kids) later I am neck deep with collections in 40K, Old World, AoS, Horus Heresy and Star Wars Armada. Certainly an expensive few years, and I can’t blame all of it on the kids (don’t tell my wife…)

Brett Martin

Resident writer from Downunder, I joined Peter a few years ago originally writing the odd article and list review. That morphed a bit and at the moment I spend most of my time on lists with only the occasional article. I hope to get more articles out this year.

During my formative years I was a role player (D&D and MERP) dabbling a little in historical tabletop. I jumped in to AoS in 2019 looking for something I could do and mix with work and small children. Initially I mostly wanted to paint I quickly found myself in a slow grow 40k crusade, AoS and Kill Team events.

Since then I’ve continued to build and paint armies both 40k and AoS. Most recently I’ve switched to Sylvaneth from my beloved orcs while also playing Grey Knights and Chaos Space Marines. I’m shifting gears a little just now, looking to run some smaller events locally and maybe slow the army expansion. At least until Emperor’s Children arrive. And I really need some S2D.