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The Instagram account shared by miniatures game designer Bryan Ansell and his wife Diane has announced that he died at home with his family on December 30, 2023. He was 68 years old.
Ansell is known as the founder of Citadel, the miniatures arm of Games Workshop, which he created in 1978. At the time Games Workshop distributed and supported roleplaying games in Europe, as well as documenting them in its magazine White Dwarf. The creation of Citadel was followed by the wargame Warhammer Fantasy Battle, designed to make use of its line of miniatures. Warhammer's success led to Ansell becoming managing director of Games Workshop and eventually shifting its focus entirely onto the tabletop wargaming hobby, which it still dominates today.
As a designer, Ansell was responsible for the 1980 sci-fi wargame Laserburn, a proto-Warhammer 40,000 with bolt guns and power armor. As well as co-creating Warhammer Fantasy Battle, he led the writing of Warhammer's Realm of Chaos supplements, which not only detailed the setting's Chaos gods but laid down much of the heavy metal horror-fantasy tone that would define them in the future.
Not everything Ansell did was so well-received. As managing director of Games Workshop he was responsible for closing its London office and moving the business to Nottingham, where Citadel was based. The editorial staff of White Dwarf magazine, at the time run out of the London office, responded to this by writing an acrostic in the contents page of issue 77 that read «sod off Bryan Ansell».
Ansell left Games Workshop in 1991, having overseen the company's boom. In later years he ran a smaller manufacturer of historical miniatures called Wargames Foundry, which he'd initially created to give his father something to do after retiring. Ansell himself retired in 2005, and his family still runs Wargames Foundry today.
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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.»