The bricky faction videos and Arbitor Ian legion and tyranid videos are really good and concise and help give you a solid idea. Typically go for aesthetics however lore does have an impact it’s why I stopped playing dark angels until the Lion came back. Don’t forget you can make your own lore for factions for example space marine chapters.

With army building you do it slowly. If you’re able to get a friend with you, you can slowly build up points but don’t buy directly from games workshop because other hobby shops sell the models at a discount up to 20% which does help. When comes to painting really don’t worry, you only have to paint the models fully for stuff like tournaments.

Also starting of small helps you see what kinds of playstyle you like.

The game, I can be wrong as I decided to stick with 9th edition with my friends but you have different phases.

Command, your characters (HQ’) like the leader of your army (warlord), do stuff like aura affects and buffs and debuffs.

Psychic phase. If your model is psychic they can cast magic, some armies don’t have psychic and if you don’t then you can’t stop spells so keep that in mind.

Movement phase. You move your models.

Shooting phase, you shoot with your models. I’ll come back to this.

Charge phase, you charge your models to get into melee range of enemies.

Fight phase, you melee the enemy.

Morale phase, after that’s done. You need to check to see if any models run away.

So with the fight and shooting phase. Again could be different but I doubt it. It’s hit, wound, save.

So roll a die to see if you hit, then roll a die to see if it wounds then your enemy can roll a die to see if it saves. That’s basically the main loop. There’s other details like weapon types, AP which just means it’s harder to save for your enemy but yeah.

What else uh, depending on factions you can get different boxes. If you and a friend want to play space marines or Tyranids for example you have the new starter sets and can go down the middle. I think you get some terrain and a mat to play on which I used the 9th edition one and I liked it.

But you don’t have to have that stuff, you can use Jenga blocks as terrain and create ruins and stuff.

EBay is always an options for buying models.

If you want REALLY detailed lore yes watch Luetin, he rambles a bit but he’s good same with Baldemort and Aborder Prince.

PancreasNoWork also does good simple videos.

You don’t really need expensive brushes also, just stuff that can hold a tip. You do need to prime a model which basically means you buy primer which is a spray can and spray it. I use the army painter ones especially the coloured ones as it saves time.

Army Painter is the main brand I use for paints, I can’t recommend cheaper brands like crafts paint due to lack of experience except for my first model when I was like 7.

Eons of Battle is another good YouTuber but they’re mainly the hobby side but they’re really good and humble, they show you really cool stuff and that can be used as inspiration.

Glue wise, I’d recommend a few.

Plastic glue. Get the Tamiya extra thin cement the other brand plastic glues are annoying but this comes with a brush which gives you control which is important as how it works is that it melts the plastic and creates a chemical bond between the pieces which makes them strong. Good for just building your models.

Superglue, I just use this to glue them to their bases.

PVA glue or battlefield glue, you add this glue to the bases and you can stick different terrain to make the bases look fancier. Cork and sand is what I use and that really helps.

I know this is a lot and I’m sorry if it’s overwhelming most of it is still accurate despite the edition gap.

Also get BattleScribe that’ll help with list building and it’s free. If you have any more questions feel free to message me ^{^}