Fantasy Warlord

Fantasy Warlord is a fantasy miniatures game released in 1990 by Folio Works and designed by Gary Chalk and Ian Bailey.

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

Fantasy Warlord featured some unusual game mechanics such as simultaneous movement and fog of war rules. It also featured balanced magic and troop choice systems. However the combat system was prone to throwing up statistical irregularities.

Much like Warhammer, the game had its own fantasy world, called Vortimax, in which the battles were imagined to take place.

The game went out of print not all that long after being published.