Rick Priestley
Rick Priestley is a miniature wargaming designer[1] and author who lives near Nottingham, England.
Career
Rick Priestley, with Bryan Ansell and Richard Hailliwell, designed the miniatures game Warhammer Fantasy Battle for Games Workshop.[2]:47 The idea of the Black Library evolved under the guidance of Priestley, Andy Jones, and Marc Gascoigne into the magazine Inferno! which debuted in July 1997.[2]:50 Priestley also designed the large-scale combat game Warmaster (2000).[2]:50
Rick left Games Workshop in November 2010. He is now co-owner of Warlord Games,[1] and also does consulting work on a freelance basis. He is an associate at River Horse Games.[3]
At the end of 2011 he was elected to the committee of the Society of Ancients.[1] In December 2012 he announced plans to launch a new science fiction game The Gates of Antares [4] with funding raised through Kickstarter.
Works
Priestley worked extensively for Games Workshop. He is credited with authoring or co-authoring the following games:
- Warhammer Fantasy Battle (with Bryan Ansell and Richard Halliwell) [5]
- Warhammer Ancient Battles (with Jervis Johnson, Alan and Michael Perry) [6]
- 1644 [7]
- Warhammer 40,000 (with Andy Chambers, Jervis Johnson and Gavin Thorpe) [8]
- Necromunda (with Andy Chambers and Jervis Johnson) [9]
- Warmaster (with Alessio Cavatore and Stephan Hess) [10]
- Warmaster Ancients [11]
- The Alamo: Victory or Death [12]
- The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game (with Alessio Cavatore) [13]
Since joining Warlord Games, he has authored or co-authored the following games:
- Black Powder (with Jervis Johnson and John Stallard) [14]
- Hail Caesar [15]
- Bolt Action (With Alessio Cavatore)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Slingshot, No279, Nov 2011, p1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
- ↑ Riverhorse homepage. Retrieved 2013-02-27.
- ↑ "Gates of Antares". Toyz N The Hood. Retrieved 2012-12-18.
- ↑ "Warhammer Fantasy Battle". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
- ↑ "Warhammer Ancient Battles". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
- ↑ "1644". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
- ↑ "Warhammer 40,000". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
- ↑ "Necromunda". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
- ↑ "Warmaster". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
- ↑ "Warmaster Ancients". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
- ↑ "The Alamo - Victory or Death". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
- ↑ "Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2011-03-26.
- ↑ "Black Powder". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2011-03-01.
- ↑ "Hail Caesar". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2011-04-25.