The World Cup of Historical Wargames Miniature Manufacturers 2024

 

Last year I ran a World Cup of Historical Wargames Rules this year it's the turn of the Manufacturers. The top 8 seeds have been picked by an esteemed group of 4 people that I know and during the last week the 16 first round places have been voted for, please see below.

Here are the results of the preliminary round of The World Cup of Historical Wargames Miniatures

The Companies below will form pot1 and will form the 8 "home" teams in Round 1

1. Victrix Miniatures 315
2. Empress Miniatures 305
3. Pendraken Miniatures 206
4. Warlord Games 205
5. Baccus6mm 171
6, Footsore Miniatures & Games 170
7. The Plastic Soldier Company 168
8. The Assault Group 149

Pot 2 will contain the following Companies who will be the away teams in Round 1

9. Front Rank 148
10. Bad Squiddo 146
11. Gripping Beast 144
12. Old Glory 107
13. Steel Fist Miniatures 104
14. Battlefront 104
15. Bloody Miniatures 99
16. Wargames Atlantic 90

The winners of the 8 Ties will progress to Round 2 where they will meet the seeds shown in the bracket below, after that the ties will follow the chart as below.

Each match will be voted for on FB and each vote will last 72 hours.

The draw for the rounds will take place during the recording for the Brews in the Binyard Podcast on the evening of 24th Jun.

For those who are interested here are the remaining manufacturers who missed out

17. Aventine 85
18. Eureka 78
19. Forged in Battle 76
20. Crusader 75
21. Artizan 74
22. Early War Miniatures 68
23. Claymore Castings 66
24. Xyston Miniatures and 1st Corps 60
26. Calpe 55
27 DIxon Miniatures 53
28. Gringo 40s & Essex 52
30. Piano Wargames 51
31. Flags of War 50
32. Offensive Miniatures 48
33. Airfix 43
34. May 40 40
35. GHQ
36. Bicorne Miniatures 35
37. Copplestone Castings and North Star 34
39. Rubicon 33
40. Irregular Miniatures 31
41. Adler Miniatures 30
42. Andeluvian and Hinchcliffe Miniatures 27
44. Ebor Miniatures and Galloping Major 26
46. Battle Honours and Fireforge Miniatures 23
48. Elhiem Miniatures 22
49. Connoisseur, Navwar and Museum Miniatures 21
52. Iron Duke, Langton and Kallistra 20
55. Great Escape Games and Tumbling Dice 18
57. Khurasan Miniatures 17
58. Brigade Games 16
59. 1898 Minaturas 15
60. Matchbox and Pulp Figures 13
62. Mike's Models, Trent and Redoubt Miniatures 12
65. Alternative Armies and Italeri 11
67. Bavaria Miniatures 10
68. Fizzers Metal Men, Eagle Figures, Athena Miniatures, Revell, Zvenda, Black Tree Design, Reconquer 9
75. Crann Tara, Scotia Grendel, Red3 Miniatures, Newline Designs, Frei Korps 15, 8
80. Gladiator, Boot Hill, HaT, Baueda, SHQ 7
85. Black Hussar, Simons Soldiers, Fife and Drum, Strelets, Great War Miniatures, Legio Heroica, Warfare Miniatures 6
92. Caesar, Raventhorpe, Tin Soldier, Lancashire, Grubby Tanks 5
97. Curtneys, Renegade, FAA, Brittania, Steve Barber, Naismith, Companion Miniatures, Franznap Miniatures, Spencer Smith, A&A, Xan Miniatures, Corvus Miniatures 4
110. Minden, Davco, Mirliton, Liberation, Drews Militia, Matchlock, Table Top Games, Linera A, Polly Oliver, Avanpost, Garrison 3
121. Tanatus, Lurkio Figures, Checkpoint, Under Fire, Jacobite, WTJ, Agema, Lancer, Hinton Hunt, Wee Wolf Miniatures, V&V 2
132. Acorn Miniatures, Shako 64, Keelman, Wargamer, Warrior, Heer46, Thoroughbred, Brown Water Navy, Scarab, Revier, Alternative Miniatures 1
143. Fixed Bayonets, Scheltrum, Pandyman, Black Sheep, Thistle and Rose, Tundraworks, Oddizal Osmy, Blue Moon, Petes Flags

Thank you to everyone who took part in the first part of this World Cup, a total of 4748 votes cast so far.

The draw for the first two rounds was done last night and will be out soon.

Regards Ken 

The Yarkshire Gamer