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• The tabletop game likewise remains very popular, fostering a passionate community dedicated to painting miniatures among other activities.Games Workshop alumni paid tribute to Ansell, with Games Workshop co-founder Ian Livingstone writing, "Very sad news Bryan Ansell passed away..
• Ansell ultimately left Games Workshop to focus on Wargames Foundry.Warhammer, of course, remains immensely popular to this day, as evidenced by the huge range of licensed video games and other media that have come out of the property..
• "Remedy designer Tuomas Pirinen, who previously worked at Games Workshop, wrote, "Bryan Ansell, the man behind the growth of Games Worshop and the patron of Warhammer and #40K as we know it today has died..
• His initially sold 25mm historical and fantasy miniatures and games, but it was 1983's Warhammer Fantasy Battle that would become the company's breakout hit..
• Not many #Warhammer fans know it today, but without him, there would almost certainly be no Warhammer hobby at all today..
• He was 68.Ansell's death was announced on Instagram on December 30 with the message, "With great sadness, we announce that Bryan passed away peacefully at home this morning surrounded by his family, 30th December 2023..