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TWW already has a great searchable directory of gaming companies here that you can use to locate what gaming goodies you need.
This is great for allowing you know who sells what, but as consumers we often like to buy from people we like.
The Trader directory does not give you a feel for the person though, so I thought I would start this topic and let companies talk a bit about themselves.Don’t forget you can subscribe to this topic too, you may discover something interesting, good or bad!
Hello!
Michael of Angel Barracks here.
I first played with miniatures back in the 80’s and started like so many by finding my local Games Workshop ©.
I played and gamed for a good few years and then moved away from my home town of Birmingham due to work and ended up drifting away from gaming.Then in 2006 I got back into gaming and decided to carry on where I left off, with 6mm.
I started Angel Barracks as I struggled to find a single website where I could buy everything I needed to return to the hobby.
For the first 6 years I was only stocking other people’s products, but then in 2012 I started making some of my own, 6mm sci-fi wildlife and quickly followed these with civilians.In order to raise funds for developing my own range I sold off all the other stock I carried, which was over 2500 products at the time.
I am now well into my own range of 6mm sci-fi and have a free set of 6mm sci-fi Skirmish Rules called KR 16.I want to show that 6mm can be a viable scale for ‘normal’ gaming and that it does have detail and can be as serious as bigger scales for smaller gaming like skirmish games.
It is a struggle as 6mm sci-fi is not that big (fnarrr) and 6mm sci-fi skirmish is even smaller..
Still I believe in it and will carry on forging forward with more detailed 6mm sci-fi goodness!
Outstanding thread topic, but link needs repair.
Link works for me.
Cheers,
The Bandit
Suppose I ought say something about myself and The Wargaming Company.
I started wargaming the American Civil War with Johnny Reb (v.2) about 25 years ago so in the scheme of a things a “new comer” to the hobby. Played various ACW games and other historicals, tried out Napoleonics with Napoleon’s Battles, then got into BattleTech and well, things have just spiraled out of control from there.
Around 2008 I started working on the game that would become Et sans résultat! (ESR). This was after reading and playing most of the big names in Napoleonic rules and many of the small ones: Empire, Nappy’s Battles, Corps d’armée, General de Brigade, Column Line & Square, Quarrie’s Rules, and a bunch of others.
In the spring of 2015 The Wargaming Company officially became a company. We’re based in the US Midwest, like most wargaming, hobby related companies we’re small but luckily we’re also nimble. In 2015 we published Et sans résultat! (ESR) and this winter we started offering Napoleonic miniatures in 15mm from the Old Glory 15s line, we are also importing products to the US from the UK starting with Leven’s excellent 6mm resin building product line.
Starting next year in 2016 we have plans to publish additional titles – both internally developed and stuff from 3rd-parties. These will include more games in different periods as well as expansions and scenario collections. We’re always excited to hear from someone who is looking to publish a game but doesn’t have the means to, so if that’s you, please reach out and we’d love to talk. We’ll also be expanding what we import from Leven to make those products more available in the United States and are actively looking for more companies both inside and outside the US who would like us to carry their products – so if you’re someone who is making something neat but you don’t want to deal with sales and distribution, reach out and we can help.
Cheers,
The Bandit aka David@TWC
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