2025 has been a year. One of many years. There have in fact been 25 of those years so far this century.

Models have been painted, games have been played and tournaments have been attended?

Over the past couple of weeks the Woehammer community voted on the best the worst things to come out of Warhammer in 2025. These weren’t carefully defined categories. We deliberately left them open to interpretation.

Best Warscroll

The first award is for the best Age of Sigmar warscroll this year. How people interpreted this was entirely up to them,  perhaps they thought it had the best rules or perhaps they thought it was the best looking model. There were two warscrolls that received an equal number of votes for the win:

Worst Warscroll

There were a lot of nominations for this category. Quite a few seemed to have a warscroll that had let them down at some point or another. Others perhaps loved the model and thought the rules didn’t live up to the model.

The winner is….

Best Rules Change

There’s always a lot of people moaning about battlescrolls when they drop and how GW did their army dirty. So we asked everyone what GW had got right. The result was pretty unanimous….

The moment Gorechosen got nerfed, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Worst Rules Change

We couldn’t have the best rules change and then not have the worst. This one was also pretty unanimous…..

Yup, it’s Obscuring on Objectives.

Most Fair/Balanced Faction

We asked people to vote on the most balanced and fair faction this year and the results were surprisingly clear!

The winner is….

The Most Oppressive Faction

Everyone has that one faction they hate playing against. It seemed this year that the hate was mostly for….

I was convinced this one was going to be won by Nighthaunt but they only got a third of the votes that KO managed to get.

Best Non-Warhammer Tabletop Game

There were only a few nominations for this category, and it was fairly close with a single vote splitting the winner out….

Malifaux narrowly beat my personal choice of Silver Bayonet.

Best Warhammer Blog or Website

This was incredibly close, and was contested really by only two sites. The runner up is the much loved Goonhammer. While the winner is everyone’s favourite Destruction loving website…

PlasticCraic are awesome and I always have a good chuckle when reading their ramblings over there. I also recommend signing up to their Patreon, you’ll get access to their awesome Discord as well.

Best YouTube Channel

This one had quite a few nominations, but one clear winner did start to emerge. But first I wanted to shout out our runner-up, A Skaven Plays. Raybear who’s a member of our Discord and a top, top player records all his TTS games and hosts them here.

But in first place with a substantial number votes is…

Season of War have been going a few years now, and it’s easy to see after watching their videos why they’re so popular.

Best Warhammer Video Game

This wasn’t even close and we could have given this award out the second we dreamt it up. The winner is….

Best Warhammer Novel

What wasn’t an easy one to predict was the Best Warhammer Novel. Everyone had a favourite book and the votes were spread evenly across all the nominations. The winner is….

I’m ashamed to say that I’ve not actually read this one. But it is now on my list!

Best Non-Warhammer Book

Unlike the Warhammer Novel, this one had a clear winner, and possibly an obvious one with us being predominantly fantasy wargamers…..

Most Helpful Discord Member

We wanted to do an award where we recognised the members of the Discord that were always happy to help others. There were three nominations here and each one of them is a legend. The runners up were, Madigan Mason and Fabien Barbusse, both are always helping out on our Rules Lawyers channel, but the winner is…

Vallis

Vallus has been a member of our Discord since 2023 and is often the first one to help clear up any rules questions. Thanks Vallis!!!

Best Painted

The best painted was for any miniature that had been posted in our Discord Display Cabinet channel this year. The nominations were:

There were so many more as well that would have been worthy of nominations, but our winner, by 1 vote is…..

Rose of Winter has done an incredible job, we’re looking forward to seeing more from them next year.

WoePoints Winner 2025

Our final category is for the winner of our WoePoints in 2025. For those unsure what WoePoints is, its a points system where you gain points for buying models and reduce points for painting or selling models. The aim being to be as negative as you can by the end of the year.

Our 2025 winner is…..

Poots