Name: Fantasy Warlord (1990)
Brand: Folio Works
Price: 39.99 USD
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Fantasy Warlord is a fantasy miniatures game released in 1990 by Folio Works. It was written by Ian Bailey and Gary Chalk who also did the illustrations.

The game was designed and published by two ex-Games Workshop (GW) employees who disagreed with the much more commercial direction that company was taking.^[1] It was supposed to rival the Warhammer Fantasy Battle game that GW published.

Fantasy Warlord featured some unusual game mechanics such as simultaneous movement, an original command and control system (units are organised into brigades commanded by characters) and fog of war rules. It also featured balanced magic and troop choice systems. However the balance within the combat system reduced the opportunity to generate dramatic victories.

Much like Warhammer, the game had its own fantasy world, called Vortimax, in which the battles were imagined to take place. There was also a related range of Fantasy Warlord miniatures cast by Alternative Armies, and a magazine called Red Giant.

The game went out of print 18 months after first publication. Some supplements were expected, such as Armies of Vortimax (expected in 1992)^[2] Besieged or Fantasy Warlord Command Pack, but none were released. Only two issues of Red Giant magazine were released. Folio Works Ltd. was dissolved on 11 February 1993.^[3]