Warlord Games

Tabletop game company

Warlord Games Ltd

Industry| Miniature wargaming and Board game publisher
Founded| 2007
Headquarters|

Nottingham

Key people

| John Stallard, Paul Sawyer, Alessio Cavatore, Rick Priestley
Website| Warlord Games

Warlord Games is a British miniatures and wargame publisher, based in Nottingham, UK.

## Description

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Warlord Games produces both miniatures for wargames as well as the wargames themselves. Black Powder, set in the game of the musket, is mentioned in several books dedicated to wargames set in this period. For example, Donald Featherstone, in his 2010 book Battle Notes for Wargamers, cites the rules used in Black Powder as especially suitable for recreations of the Battles of Wynendael,[1]: 64 Prestonpans,[1]: 74 Guilford Courthouse,[1]: 84 Maida,[1]: 94 Aliwal,[1]: 103 Wilson's Creek,[1]: 112 Little Big Horn,[1]: 122 and Modder River.[1]: 132

Warlord Games's most popular game to date is Bolt Action.

Their games are well-known enough that they were used several times by Rick Priestley and John Lambshead in their 2016 book Tabletop Wargames: A Designers' and Writers' Handbook to illustrate various points. For example, Priestley and Lambshead point to the "Blunder Table" in the wargame Black Powder, using it as an example of a mechanism that "introduces a moment of high drama into the game. It drives the narrative of the battle. Although the result affects only one side the roll engages the attention of both."[2]: 48 Likewise, Priestley and Lambshead use Bolt Action to explore nested systems of sequential mechanics, giving as the example "shooting that results in one or more hits (primary rolls) results in a morale effect (represented by a 'pin' state) even where all those hits fail to cause casualties (secondary rolls)."[2]: 50

In the same way, Javier Gomez in his 2015 book Painting Wargaming Figures, used figurines produced by Warlord Games as examples to demonstrate various ways to paint historically accurate figurines for use with specific battles, including a Thirty Years War gun and crew,[3]: 224 a Roman centurion[3]: 285 and a Celtic warrior.[3]: 302

## History

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Warlord Games was started in 2007[4] by former Games Workshop employees John Stallard and Paul Sawyer. In July 2023, Warlord sold 25% of shares to Hornby for £1.25 million.[5]

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e f g h Featherstone, Donald (2010). Battle Notes for Wargamers. David & Charles Ltd. ISBN 9781446731833.
2. ^ a b Priestley, Rick; Lambshead, John (2016). Tabletop Wargames: A Designers' and Writers' Handbook. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Military. ISBN 9781783831487.
3. ^ a b c Gomez, Javier (2015). Painting Wargaming Figures. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Military. ISBN 9781848848221.
4. ^ ltd, company check. "WARLORD GAMES LIMITED. Free business summary taken from official companies house information. Free alerts. Registered as 06400769". Company Check. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
5. ^ "Acquisition and Extension of Loan Facility, 7 Jul 2023 11:23 | Shares Magazine". www.sharesmagazine.co.uk. 7 July 2023. Archived from the original on 11 July 2023. Retrieved 11 July 2023.

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