Alright, Playing Warhammer comes down to a few simple steps. Step 1: Choose the faction you want to play and paint your minis. Warhammer has over a dozen factions, each with their own unique lore and play style. Do you love resilient last stands and relatable characters, check out the imperial guard. Love anime and mechs, look into the tau empire, maybe chaotic melee fights is your thing, then you'll love the Orks. Look for what's right for you. Step 2: Playing, Warhammer can be separated into five phases: 1. The command phase, in this phase you pull your secondary cards, which is the main way of scoring points, and test battleshocks, which happens if you lose a bunch of models in a unit. 2. the movement phase, this is where you move your models across the board to take objectives and get into range for shooting and charging. 3. Shooting phase: look at your models datasheet, you'll often see a list of ranged weapons, look for an enemy model that your models can directly see, measure how far they are, and if they are in range, you shoot. You have to roll a hit roll and a wound roll. Think of the hit role like aiming and shooting, and the wound as wether or not it penetrates their armor. 4. The charge phase: This is where your units attempt to get into melee range of an oppenent, its like the movement phase, but you can only do it if you roll a big enough roll to get into melee range. And finally the fight phases. Once you have some models in engagment range (2 inch's) of an enemy unit, you do basically the same as shooting but in honorable melee combat. And that's the basic steps of Warhammer, after five turns each of that, you tally up how many points in total you got from holding objective points around the board and from secondaries you successfully scored.
If you would like a more in-depth look at all the factions, I recommend checking out Auspexs Tactic's channel, they do daily updates on Warhammer rules, what models are doing good, how each factions plays, and even more in-depth looks at how to play the game. Or even better, you could watch someone play, which is how I learned. For that I recommend Play on tabletop.
