Warhammer co-creator Bryan Ansell has died

Bryan Ansell, photographed with his Chaos army for Warhammer Fantasy Battle 3rd edition

Bryan Ansell, photographed with his Chaos army for Warhammer Fantasy Battle 3rd edition. (Image credit: Games Workshop)

The Instagram account shared by miniatures game designer Bryan Ansell and his wife Diane has announced that he died at home with his family on December 30, 2023. He was 68 years old.

Ansell is known as the founder of Citadel, the miniatures arm of Games Workshop, which he created in 1978. At the time Games Workshop distributed and supported roleplaying games in Europe, as well as documenting them in its magazine White Dwarf. The creation of Citadel was followed by the wargame Warhammer Fantasy Battle, designed to make use of its line of miniatures. Warhammer’s success led to Ansell becoming managing director of Games Workshop and eventually shifting its focus entirely onto the tabletop wargaming hobby, which it still dominates today.



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