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After the 1987 release of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 wargame, a military and [1] science fantasy [2] universe set in the far future, the company began publishing background literature to expand on existing material, introduce new content, and provide detailed descriptions of the universe, its characters, and its events.
Warhammer 40,000 (sometimes colloquially called Warhammer 40K, WH40K or 40k) is a miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop. It is the most popular miniature wargame in the world, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and is particularly popular in the United Kingdom. [ 4 ]
Release Date Superseded by Imperial Armour Imperial Guard & Imperial Navy 1-84154-127-3: 2000: Imperial Armour Restarted Line Imperial Armour II Orks, Eldar, and Dark Eldar 1-84154-219-9: 2001: Imperial Armour Restarted Line Imperial Armour Aeronautica Update and compilation of fliers and anti-aircraft units for the 6th Edition release of ...
A series of Warhammer 40,000 comics were first created for the Games Workshop magazine, Warhammer Monthly as short background filler. In 1999, the first miniature and game tie-in was released as a joint project of Warhammer Monthly and its publisher, the Black Library. [7] This model was the bounty hunter Kal Jerico of the "Specialist Game ...
The Horus Heresy is a series of science fantasy novels set in the fictional Warhammer 40,000 setting of tabletop miniatures wargame company Games Workshop.Penned by several authors, the series takes place during the Horus Heresy, a fictional galaxy-spanning civil war occurring in the 31st millennium, 10,000 years before the main setting of Warhammer 40,000.
Adeptus Titanicus is a tabletop science fiction mecha game published by Games Workshop (GW) in 1988 for use with the rules of Warhammer 40,000. Several revised and expanded editions were released from 1994 to 2018.
Tom Kirby became General Manager in 1986. [17] Following a management buyout by him and Bryan Ansell in December 1991, when Livingstone and Jackson sold their shares for £10 million, [18] Games Workshop refocused on their miniature wargames Warhammer Fantasy Battle (WFB) and Warhammer 40,000 (WH40k), their most lucrative lines.
In a retrospective review written 22 years after the game's release, Robey Jenkins noted "Games Workshop had existed for almost a decade before Rogue Trader was released and their flagship game at the time, Warhammer Fantasy Battles, had already made their name in the insular wargaming community of the time.