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Bryan Ansell, co-creator of Warhammer Fantasy Battle and the leader of Games Workshop through the late 1980s, passed away at home on the morning of Dec. 30. He was 68. The announcement was made on the Instagram account he shared with his wife, Diane.
Ansell, an experienced sculptor, partnered with Games Workshop in 1978 to create Citadel Miniatures, a brand under which the company still produces its British-made products to this day.Later, he would become the managing director of Games Workshop itself. During his tenure, the company fully transitioned from being an importer and distributor of tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons to a manufacturer, eventually exporting its own science fiction and fantasy products all around the world.
Aside from shepherding the company itself through its early growing pains, Ansell’s biggest contribution to Games Workshop was in bringing the Warhammer Fantasy Battle tabletop wargame to life. The game, which he co-created with Rick Priestley and Richard Halliwell, would go on to become one of the company’s marquee products alongside Warhammer 40,000.
Ironically, news of Ansell’s passing comes during a period of renewed interest in The Old World, the original setting for his Warhammer Fantasy Battle game. The Old World was sunset in 2015 following an in-fiction apocalypse, languishing for the better part of a decade with only Creative Assembly’s excellent Total War: Warhammer series left to carry on. Then, late last year, Games Workshop finally revealed the launch line-up for the game’s long expected reboot. Now titled Warhammer: The Old World, the lavish miniatures wargame — now cast in plastic instead of white metal — is expected to arrive on store shelves later this month.
Games Workshop has not made a public statement about Ansell’s death. Polygon has reached out for comment.
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While there is no shortage of video games based on Games Workshop IPs out there, it’s not often we get one that’s truly worth talking about. However, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is a fantastic turn-based tactical RPG that makes amazing use of its source material while still providing an immense amount of freedom to its players. Unfortunately, it also happened to release in the same year as another RPG based on a major IP, Baldur’s Gate 3 , which outperforms it in pretty much every aspect. With that in mind, Rogue Trader might not be the best tactical RPG to come out in 2023, but it is the best Warhammer 40,000 title released last year.
I remember when The Old World, long one of Games Workshop’s most interesting creations, died in 2015. Inspired by the dashing tin soldiers used to recreate battles from the era of Napoleon, the sword-and-sorcery setting was home to the British company’s flagship Warhammer Fantasy Battle game for decades. But that game and nearly a dozen other tabletop products — beloved spinoff titles like Warhammer Quest, Man O’ War, and even cult classic Mordheim — simply ceased to be relevant after an in-fiction apocalypse called the End Times brought about the Age of Sigmar. Now, nearly a decade later, the classic setting is back with a new game called Warhammer: The Old World, arriving in stores later this month.
To my mind, the aesthetic of Games Workshop's original tabletop wargame Warhammer Fantasy Battle can be summed best by a Monty Python quote. It's the bit in Holy Grail where a commoner says he can tell Arthur must be a king because «he hasn't got shit all over him.»