/r/Warhammer40k - Unofficial Home of 40k on Reddit. Warhammer 40k is a franchise created by Games Workshop, detailing the far future and the grim darkness it holds. The main attraction of 40k is the miniatures, but there are also many video games, board games, books, ect. that are all connected in the 40k universe. This subreddit is for anything and everything related to Warhammer 40k. Founded 2010 · 1.6M members
1.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached
25.9K upvotes, which works out to
16 per 1,000 members.
The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/Warhammer40k?
r/Warhammer40k ("/r/Warhammer40k - Unofficial Home of 40k on Reddit") describes itself this way: Warhammer 40k is a franchise created by Games Workshop, detailing the far future and the grim darkness it holds. The main attraction of 40k is the miniatures, but there are also many video games, board games, books, ect. that are all connected in the 40k universe. This subreddit is for anything and everything related to Warhammer 40k. It was founded in 2010 and has 1.6M members.
How many members does r/Warhammer40k have?
r/Warhammer40k has about 1.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.7K of its posts; the biggest reached 25.9K upvotes, which is 16 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Warhammer40k?
"It’s my 40th birthday and my wife surprised me with her latest carving project" reached 25.9K upvotes and 543 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Warhammer40k.
What subreddits are similar to r/Warhammer40k?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/alberta, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/minnesota, r/Amazing.
What kind of posts do best on r/Warhammer40k?
Of the posts we hold, 45% are gallery posts and 23% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Warhammer40k?
Across 1.7K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 21:00 UTC (3.2K avg upvotes), Monday at 11:00 UTC (1.1K avg upvotes), Saturday at 05:00 UTC (968 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Warhammer40k?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Warhammer40k has 1.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 600 posts from it in the last 30 days.
See what is climbing here before you write
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Warhammer40k, not everything the
community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is
weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.
Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed.
See how we measure.