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The Specialist Games Range, formerly known as Fanatic Games, is a division of Games Workshop that offers additional games set in the worlds of Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000, and The Lord of the Rings specifically to those who are seeking a greater tactical challange than what is provided by the core Games Workshop games. It is in this way that Specialist Games mostly appeal to more veteran gamers.¹

Nearly all of the Specialist Games rule manuals are available to gamers directly from Games Workshop's website. There is a good deal of additional material available as well.²

Games Range

The range is known for, as previously mentioned, games that take place in Games Workshop's core game universes, but most of the games contained within the Specialist Games range are meant for either massive conflicts (such as Epic, Warmaster, or The Battle of Five Armies) or small skirmishes (such as Mordheim or Inquisitor).

Warhammer 40,000

• Epic Armageddon - The 4th Edition of Epic. A miniature tabletop wargame set in the 41st millennium meant for playing massive battles at 6mm scale.
• Battlefleet Gothic - A miniature tabletop wargame set in the 41st millennium that revolves around spacecraft combat.
• Inquisitor - A miniature tabletop wargame set in the 41st millennium involving skirmish combat at 54mm scale.
• Necromunda - A miniature tabletop wargame set in the 41st millennium involving skirmish combat at 28mm scale.

Warhammer

• Blood Bowl - A miniature tabletop game based on American football, set in the world of Warhammer and played at 28mm scale.
• Mordheim - A miniature tabletop wargame set in the world of Warhammer involving skirmish combat at 28mm scale.
• Warmaster - A miniture tabletop wargame set in the world of Warhammer meant for playing massive battles at 10mm scale.

The Lord of the Rings

• Great Battles of Middle-earth: The Battle of Five Armies - A miniature tabletop wargame set in Middle-earth, revolving around the Battle of Five Armies and other events in The Hobbit. It is set at 10mm scale.

Hobby support

Up until the 1990s there was frequent support for the Fanatic games range in the White Dwarf magazine. From 2000 to 2004, most hobby content was published in a number of short-lived hobby magazines:

Battlefleet Gothic Magazine	Battlefleet Gothic
Exterminatus	Inquisitor
Firepower	Epic 40,000, the 3rd Edition of Epic
Necromunda Magazine	Necromunda
Planet Killer	Battlefleet Gothic
Spike! Magazine	Blood Bowl
Town Cryers	Mordheim
Warhammer Epic 40.000 Magazine	Epic 40,000
Warmaster Magazine	Warmaster

These individual magazines were replaced by Fanatic Magazine and then ultimately by Fanatic Online in 2004, a free online-magazine which covered the entire Fanatic games range until its cancellation in 2008. Since then, only a limited amount of gaming material for each game (such as rulebooks) is available for download on the official Games Workshop website.

Sources

• ¹: Specialist Games on wikipedia
• ²: Official Specialist Games Resources on Games Workshop