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Brian Gregory founded Essex Miniatures in 1980 in Canvey Island, Essex.The company's first products were 28 mm historical figures. [1] With the rise in popularity of fantasy role-playing games (FRPGs) using 25 mm figures, Essex began producing fantasy miniatures as well, although they continued to market their slightly larger 28 mm figures as suitable for FRPGs.
Archive Miniatures & Game Systems - Early producer of miniatures for role-playing games [1] Asgard Miniatures - Early British company based in Nottingham [2] Chronicle Figures - Early British company that produced role-playing game miniatures [3] Black Powder Red Earth - Produces Modern war game miniatures and game. All USA made materials.
War Games Rules 3000 BC to 1485 AD (Wargames Research Group, 1980) [1] Wargames Rules - Ancient Period (480 B.C. - A.D. 61) (Athena, 1986) Warhammer Ancient Battles (Warhammer Historical Wargames, 1998) [1] Warlord (Partizan Press, 2007) Warmaster Ancients (Warhammer Historical Wargames, 2005) [1] Warrior (Four Horsemen Enterprises, 2002) [1]
BrikWars is a free miniatures wargaming system by Mike Rayhawk, created for use with plastic building blocks and figurines. It is designed to be simple and flexible, allowing for its players' full range of creativity in creating armies, creatures, vehicles, and worlds out of construction toys.
Bryan Charles Ansell (11 October 1955 – 30 December 2023) [1] [2] was a British role-playing and wargame designer. [3] In 1985, he became managing director of Games Workshop, and eventually bought the company from Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.
In the late 1970s, Heritage USA added Gametime Games to their portfolio, and produced board games such as Quest.. Wargame company Battleline Publications also merged into Heritage USA to speed its growth, [1]: 164 and the company started to publish wargames such as Circus Maximus, a combination of a racetrack-based game called Chariot Racing and a one-on-one combat game called Gladiator [2]
Unlike the miniatures wargame Confrontation, Cadwallon is a role-playing game. It uses the same setting of Aarklash and the same miniatures as other games in the Rackham line, and illustrated tiles could be purchased on which to play. [1] Cadwallon was designed in 2006 by Jean Bey, co-founder of Rackham. [2]
'Hordes of the Things' is a set of fast play miniatures rules for fantasy battles. It is designed to be generic and is not, therefore, tied to any particular fantasy genre, set of books, range of figures or even scale. This is achieved by the game concentrating on the effect of an action rather than precisely how it is achieved.