The Making of Warhammer | Part Two: Growth of the Giant
1,835Part two of the complete making of Warhammer - a series looking at the development and release of the greatest war game in tabletop history!
Richard Halliwell, Rick Priestley, and Bryan Ansell had created a rough and ready first edition of fantasy skirmish rules, and refined it into a successful 2nd edition. Now it was time to capture an entire hobby in the pages of a mighty tome, as 3rd edition would become a comprehensive guide to a growing phenomenon.
And all the while the battle in the Games Workshop boardroom would keep revealing new surprises...
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Chapters:
00:00 Open
01:35 Introduction
03:10 New Games Workshop - Ansell Takes Over
05:30 TSR UK?
08:40 Warhammer III
15:08 Warhammer Art
19:48 Space Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader in Space
20:42 Warhammer Armies
23:52 Warhammer Siege
25:19 Realm of Chaos
27:44 White Dwarf and the Report of Battle
29:12 Boardroom Blows
31:20 Close
Corrections:
- The Mighty Fortress was in fact made of polystyrene, not plastic as I suggest in the video. It would be the later version that would be released in plastic.
Links & Sources:
Awesome Lies Blog (Truly incredible resource on the history of early Warhammer Fantasy and WFRP history) - https://awesomeliesblog.wordpress.com
Give em Lead: Nigel Stillman Interview - http://givemlead.blogspot.com/2016/07/quest-for-stillmania-interview-with.html
Realm of Chaos 80s: Tony Ackland Interview - http://realmofchaos80s.blogspot.com/2013/01/an-interview-with-tony-ackland-grand.html
Collecting Citadel Miniatures Wiki - http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Stuff of Legends - www.solegends.com
The Dice Men by Ian Livingstone
Dragon, White Dwarf, Imagine, Battlegames Magazines
Citadel Journal and Compendium
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