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15 unusual facts about Games Workshop


Black Orc

Black Orcs are a fictional race, a sub-breed of Orc appearing in Warhammer Fantasy Battle & Warhammer Fantasy, created by Games Workshop.

Chaos: The Battle of Wizards

Chaos was written by Julian Gollop, based on his 1982 design for a traditional card game, itself inspired by the early Games Workshop board game Warlock.

Codex Pictures

Codex Pictures produced Ultramarines under licence from Games Workshop, working in association with Good Story Productions Ltd.

Dáin II Ironfoot

This name and a similar description (not appearing in Tolkien) are also used in the Games Workshop Lord of the Rings Table Top game, and the axe has its own set of rules.

Fimir

The Fimir were created at the behest of Games Workshop's then-owner, Bryan Ansell who wanted a race "to be as distinctive of Warhammer as the Broo are of Runequest".

HeroCraft

The game is being developed in close co-operation with Games Workshop.

Lustria

In the Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy fictional universe, Lustria is a region located to the south of the Naggaroth, modelled in many ways on the pre-Columbian Americas.

The Creative Assembly

On 6 December, public announcement of a partnership between Games Workshop and Creative Assembly was announced on Creative Assembly's website.

The Enemy Within Campaign

The Enemy Within campaign (commonly abbreviated to TEW) is a series of adventures for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (WFRP) and was originally published by Games Workshop in the late 1980s.

Troll Country

Troll Country is the name of a region in Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy fictional universe.

Warhammer Army Book

The following is a list of Army Books and Supplements for the various armies released for the Games Workshop Warhammer Fantasy game.

Games Workshop and Warhammer Forge (the fantasy division of Forge World, a subsidiary of Games Workshop) have released expansions to the 8th edition game.

Warhammer Monthly

Warhammer Monthly was a comics anthology published by Games Workshop's publishing arm, Black Library, from March 1998 to December 2004, running to 86 issues in total.

Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat

Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat is a real-time tactics computer game published by Games Workshop (in conjunction with Mindscape) in 1995.

Based on Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy Battle table-top figurine battle rules and set within the Warhammer Fantasy world, the storyline focuses on a mercenary general's quest to stop a Skaven plot.


Chaos League

While not a direct video game adaption, Chaos League bears resemblance to Games Workshop's Blood Bowl tabletop board game, which is also about fantasy sports.

David Pringle

He has also worked as a series editor for Games Workshop, in 1988-1991, commissioning shared world novels and short stories based on their Warhammer and Dark Future games.

FV432

One FV432 was modified on commission from THQ to look like a Rhino tank from Games Workshop's tabletop game Warhammer 40,000, as part of a marketing campaign for the computer game Dawn of War II.

Inferno!

Inferno! (originally Carnage) was a bi-monthly magazine published from 1997 to 2004 by Games Workshop's publishing division, Black Library, which was initially just the name of the team brought together to work on Inferno!.

Nexus Editrice

Nexus produced board games, role-playing games, card games, miniature games, published magazines devoted to games, and licensed to the Italian market games from many major international games publishers, such as Fantasy Flight Games, Games Workshop, Fasa and Kosmos.

Warhammer Quest

These included two new adventure packs, several Warrior packs as well as additional Treasure Card packs & a set of blank Monster Cards & Event cards, where players could record their own monsters from the Warhammer world that were not written within the Roleplay book or else not produced as an official card by Games Workshop.

Games Workshop released packs for nine additional Warriors, all of which had some background within the Warhammer world.