offers characters quick cash but at a price In Depth Review - Gary Elison reviews Fantasy Warlord Miniatures Range Folio Works launched a full range of 28 mm metal miniatures simultaneously with the publication of the rulebook, produced under license exclusively by Alternative Armies. Some of them have been sculpted by Bob Olley (it is confirmed that FW 8 Dwarfs, FW 5 Urucks and FW 9 Ogres have been designed by him). Miniatures were sold in two kind of packages: a traditional blister carding and a less common shrink-wrap packing which offer a better view and protection of the miniatures during shipping. They were distributed in the United States and the United Kingdom. The range uses two different codification: one for the characters (heroes and wizards) and troops in "classic" blister packs which consists of five digit and a second kind of code for the troops, shields and weapons prefixed with FW letters and followed by two digit, the first one designing the range (for instance: 8 for dwarfs). Characters were sold individually with a weapon and a shield when appropriate. Troops were sold by two to five miniatures per blister, shields and weapons were cast separately to let the player chooses his troop's weapons easily. Single miniature blisters were sold £0.80 (£1.50 for bigger miniatures such as Ogre Hero), Multipacks £2.95 and Weapon packs £1.50. Folio Works also sold different sort of pre-cut bases and multi-bases as announced in the rulebook page 8, but there is no evidence those bases have ever been released. When Folio Works went out of business around 1992, the rights to the miniatures were acquired by Mayhem Miniatures, and later by Kennington Miniatures and then later by "SHQ" and some of the miniatures are still available to purchase online (mainly Ogres and Urucks, also scenery packs). Alternative Armies still has the original moulds and some of the miniatures, if not all from the classic blisters range, can be cast on demand. On 20 July 2017, Alternative Armies officially announced the availability on their website of classic blisters range. Classic blisters range Multipack Troops 10000 Merchant Kingdoms Soldiers (5) 10300 Soldiers of Carylls (5) 10400 Scarlet Empire Soldiers (5) 11000 High Elves (5) 11500 Wood Elves (5) 12000 Dwarf Warriors (5) 13000 Western Goblins (5) 14000 Western Orc Uruks (5) 14600 Eastern Orcs (5) 16100 Ogres (2) Characters 20000 Hero of the Merchant Kingdoms 20400