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Warhammer (formerly Warhammer Fantasy Battle or just Warhammer Fantasy) is a tabletop miniature wargame with a medieval fantasy theme. The game was created by Bryan Ansell , Richard Halliwell , and Rick Priestley , and first published by the Games Workshop company in 1983.
Citadel Miniatures Limited is a company which produces metal, resin and plastic miniature figures for tabletop wargames such as Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40,000. In the past, Citadel Miniatures was a separate company, but it has become a brand for Games Workshop miniatures.
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.
Chalk and Ian Bailey created the game Fantasy Warlord (1990) to attempt to compete with Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy Battle. [3] In 2009–2010, Chalk illustrated Allan Frewin Jones' Sundered Lands books. He is also illustrating with original artworks the French edition of Mongoose Publishing's Lone Wolf RPG.
Warhammer Visions, a monthly sister title, was launched at the same time, in a format favouring the imagery over text. The weekly version of White Dwarf lasted for 131 issues and in September 2016 the magazine returned to its monthly format, also subsuming Warhammer Visions .
Ansell bought out Ian Livingstone's and Steve Jackson's shares of the company in 1985, refocusing Games Workshop on its most lucrative lines – the Warhammer Fantasy Battle (WFB) and Warhammer 40,000 (WH40k) miniature wargames. The company expanded rapidly and in 1991, Ansell sold his shares to Tom Kirby in a management buyout. [6]
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Shades of Empire: Organisations of the Old World (2009) Career Compendium: The Ultimate Career Reference (2009) Core Rulebook (2009) The Adventurer's Toolkit (2009) Game Master's Toolkit (2010) Player's Guide (2010) Game Master's Guide (2010) The Creature Guide (2010) Player's Vault (2010) Game Master's Vault (2010)
It is thematically similar to Warhammer Fantasy Battle, but with much simpler game mechanics. Like other Milton Bradley/Games Workshop partnership board games HeroQuest and Space Crusade , Battle Masters was designed by Stephen Baker, who later went on to design the popular game Heroscape .