Designer’s Studio: John Stallard Of Warlord Games
March 21, 2014 by warzan
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Industry legend, long may he and the Warlord crew take my money.
Another great DS episode. Was interesting to hear him talk about how they were able to make themselves seem a bigger company than they were. The other minis company who has done a great job of that is Mantic and I don’t think it’s a coincidence they’re both ran by ex-GW sales guys. I think many small minis companies could learn a lot from them.
Awesome interview. Genuinely great to hear about the history behind companies and games.
BoW Ben
To fill in some of the blanks (to the best of my knowledge), GW was owned by Jackson & Livingstone. When they got the license to produce Ral Partha minis in the UK they partnered with Ansell to create Citadel Miniatures as they had neither the experience or the equipment to produce minis themselves. Jackson & Livingstone ran GW from London as primarily a publisher of rpgs whilst Ansell ran Citadel from Newark as producer of minis. This lasted until Ansell bought a controlling stake in GW from Jackson & Livingstone and moved GW to Newark.
awsome interview just not long enough left me wanting more
I love these Designer interviews especially with the old school guys. Its really interesting (and humanizing) to hear all the old stories. Keep them coming!
Great interview, and “inspiring” content. This isn’t a very popular hobby where I live, and it’s so great to be reminded that “you are not alone” and there’s really a great wargaming community out there. Keep the great content coming!
Started kind of the same way John did, with plastic drug store army men. Wrote their names and ranks under the bases and set up in the yard, shooting BB guns at them for “to-hit resolution.” 🙂
Nice to meet him properly. Now when BoW refers to him as a legend, I can understand why.
just about to watch it but just wanted to say looking at that pic with those faces… s**t just got real.
Really good interview, possibly the best one yet of all the designer studio. Bolt Action is bringing the joy back to gaming when the shine had faded with GW’s products.
Great to hear from one of the Old Guard, the passion, enthusiasm and the personalities of people like John (I’ve found anyway) were always, bizarrely what I felt to be a major contributing factor of the cozy community feeling you got from war-gaming, back when I first started and was an acolyte with almost cult-like devotion to GW (back when I genuinely loved GW). There was you, your mates, then you had white dwarf (and historics as well, wargames illustrated and so on), you could walk into any GW store, any hobby or model shop and you somehow felt like… Read more »
Great interview.
John is one of the finest people I’ve ever met and it’s great to hear those values are going strong with Warlord. May they be around to take my money for a long time to come.
What a fantastic interview and a truley interesting veteran in the industry. It’s not hard to understand why Bolt Action is doing so well.
They don’t get much bigger than Big John Stallard! 😀
great interview!
Nice to see the man behind the company which has done so much to put historical gaming in the limelight. Hopefully he will be back in the near future.
Ok…american here. What does floated mean in the UK? Thanks
Floated on the stock market – (An IPO)
Thank, Warren.
Thanks John and Warren for a great interview.
John is a great guy and one of the nicest people you could meet, always helpful and has the time for his customers. Great work John, see you at Salute.
What a great video 🙂 makes me miss working in the hobby 🙁
I’ve never had the pleasure of talking to John, but I have talked to Paul a few times and those two men (prepare for fanboy) are totally the kind of people I could say I would love to follow in the footsteps of.
I’ll just echo all of the above. Fascinating interview with someone of a similar age to me – quite nostalgic, especially the references to Airfix Romans, Napoleonic, WW2… ahhh
Did he say 28mm Romans?!?
Enjoyed that. The thing that always strikes me about the old timers from what were for me the halcyon days of GW, 2nd edition 40K era, is that they all appear to be genuinely nice people.
Really enjoyed this interview. John is an excellent guest and Warren asked all the right questions.
That was a great interview, really insightful and a pleasure to listen to John’s past. 🙂