Fantasy Warlord - Miniatures Range

Miniatures Range

Folio Works launched a full range of 28 mm metal miniatures simultaneously with the publication of the rulebook, produced under license exclusively by Alternative Armies. Some of them have been sculpted by Bob Olley (it is confirmed that FW 8 Dwarfs, FW 5 Urucks and FW 9 Ogres have been designed by him).

Miniatures were sold in two kind of packages: a traditional blister carding and a less common skinpacking which offer a better view and protection of the miniatures during shipping. They were distributed in United States as long as in Great Britain.

The range uses two different codification: one for the characters (heroes and wizards) and troops in "classic" blister packs which consists of five digit and a second kind of code for the troops, shields and weapons prefixed with FW letters and followed by two digit, the first one designing the range (for instance: 8 for dwarfs).

Characters were sold individually with a weapon and a shield when appropriate. Troops were sold by two to five miniatures per blister, shields and weapons were cast separately to let the player chooses his troop's weapons easily. Single miniature blisters were sold £0.80 (£1.50 for bigger miniatures such as Ogre Hero), Multipacks £2.95 and Weapon packs £1.50.

Folio Works also sold different sort of precute bases and multibases as announced in the rulebook page 8, but there is no evidence those bases have ever been released.

When Folio Works went out of business around 1992, the rights to the miniatures were acquired by Mayhem Miniatures, and later to Kennington Miniatures when they were purchased by this company in 2000 and some of the miniatures are still available to purchase online (mainly Ogres and Urucks, also scenery packs).

That said, Alternative Armies still has the original molds and some of the miniatures, if not all, can be cast on demand.