Minifigs UK Bring Back Classic Fantasy Range

Pong Nyaarl Ta 26 Oct 2010 9:58 p.m. PST
IIRC the VFW line is based on a GW game… the name referring to the publishing house 'At The Four Winds' that Bruegal and others used

VFW was a Minifigs line, and at the time of release was the cutting edge of fantasy figures. There was a background story written for it which was published in White Dwarf (this was at the time when WD was a general gaming magazine not a GW house magazine/catalog). Breugal was the inspiration for the wizard's beasts and the torure items.

GW later released 4 boardgames – their first 4 proper games (if you don't count the wooden breadboards converted to solitaire boards). Warlock (a card game of spell trading), Apocalype (nuclear war), the one I can never remember (!) and Valley of the Four winds.

But the game was definetly after the figure range by some time, and the figure range was not developed for GW. It just made a popular topic for a game because the figure line was so incredibly popular. Except for the forest orcs :-)

Swamplords – yes please. The pixies – yes please (loved the 2 pixie artillery piece). And the Good people (wasn't the dragon cannon a brilliant idea ?)