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April 29, 2020 at 8:32 pm #1520335

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I’m pretty sure Games Designer’s Worshop was an American company formed around the same time in the US, founded, among others, by Frank Chadwick (of Command Decision fame) focussing on historical and sci-fi miniature wargames rules, as well as hex and counter wargames and RPG’s, including the original Traveller, 2300AD and Twilight 2000. I even have a bunch of their games. They had their own magazine and all, that was sometimes offered bundled with their games – Challenge Magazine.

Games Workshop was founded by Ian Livingstone, among others, in the mid 70’s, and later paired up with Bryan Ansell, who later still bought the company from Livingstone and Steve Jackson. Citadel Miniatures was founded by them all at the time Bryan Ansell came onboard and later was subsumed into the GW group and brand.