Andy Chambers

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Andy Chambers
(photo Dec 2015)
(photo Dec 2015)
Born (1966-10-20) 20 October 1966 (age 57)
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
OccupationWargame designer, writer
NationalityEnglish
SpouseJessica Chambers

Andy Chambers (born 20 October 1966)[1] is an English author and game designer best known for his work on over 30 Games Workshop rulebooks and sourcebooks.

Personal life[edit]

In 2003, he married Jessica Chambers after they met at KublaCon 2002.[1]

Career[edit]

Chambers is best known for his work for Games Workshop, where he worked from March 1990 to March 2004.[citation needed] He worked extensively on various Warhammer 40,000 rulebooks and sourcebooks, and also authored multiple fiction novels set in the same universe.[2][3] Chambers was the lead designer on a number of Warhammer 40,000 spin-off games, such as Necromunda (1995) and Battlefleet Gothic (1999), produced by Specialist Games.[4][5] These games were released at a time of major growth for Games Workshop and "were designed with expansions and more miniatures sales in mind".[6]

In 2003, Chambers joined Mongoose Publishing as the lead designer of the company's development team for the Starship Troopers tabletop miniatures game.[7] Starship Troopers won "Best New Game" in the 2005 Origins Awards.[8]

Chambers was the Lead Story Writer for Blizzard Entertainment, for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.[9] According to Megan Farokhmanesh, "much of the groundwork on Wings of Liberty was done, but it was Andy Chambers who finished the title".[10]

Between 2005 and 2018, Chambers wrote several books and novellas set in Warhammer 40,000 and the majority were about the Dark Eldar. Antony Jones, for SFBook in his review of Path of the Renegade (Dark Eldar Book 1), wrote "I loved how the author manages to elevate the Dark Eldar above that of humanity by describing games played with human captives as they watch them around a human size maze, the humans think they are really escaping but in reality being directed at every turn and watched over by their Eldar masters - very much like mice overlooked by people in white coats. [...] There aren't many novels that focus purely on the evil and even fewer that manage to pull it of effectively but Chambers does an excellent job here, it's one of the best examples I've read".[11]

On 14 May 2012 Dust Warfare, written by Andy Chambers, was released by Fantasy Flight Games.[12][13] In June 2013, Fantasy Flight Games announced that New Zealand-based Battlefront Miniatures would take over distribution of both Dust Warfare and Dust Tactics.[14][15]

In 2015, Chambers became a Creative Director at Reforged Studios.[16][17] Chambers, Tuomas Pirinen, and Ryan Miller created the skirmish board game Warforged: First Contact for Reforged Studios and Ninja Division Publishing who planned to bring it to market through a Kickstarter campaign.[18][19] While the campaign beat its goal of $60,000, the campaign was cancelled before the Kickstarter ended. There has been no update on the game since April 2017.[20]

Chambers and David Lewis received a nomination together in the 2017 Origins Awards "Miniatures" category for Dropfleet Commander by Hawk Wargames.[21] In 2017, he created Blood Red Skies, an air combat miniature game, which was released by Warlord Games. He also created multiple expansions for the game between 2017 and 2019.[22][23] Matt Jarvis, in a review of Blood Red Skies: Battle of Britain for Tabletop Gaming, wrote "abstracting altitude, position, damage levels and more into a single visual cue is a brilliant touch, making the slick ruleset effortless to execute and every battle look cinematic – closing in on a plane with its nose already pointed at the floor is an exciting moment, especially when combined with the simple but effective rules for tailing. [...] With a bit of tightening up, Blood Red Skies could be a strong contender for an involving tournament and spectator game – at the moment, it's just a little too loose for anything but casual play. [...] But you know what? None of that really mattered a smidge while I was actually playing Blood Red Skies, because I was just having such a fun time watching my squadrons zip through clouds, around anti-air defences and unleash bursts of machine-gun fire on enemy pilots who would similarly dance around, whizzing between the tips of wings to try and zero in".[24] Chambers also designed Strontium Dogs, a skirmish game, which was released by Warlord Games in 2018.[25]

In 2019, Chambers was a contributor to Frostgrave: The Wizard's Conclave. In his chapter “The Abandoned Workshop”, "warbands vie for control of powerful magical construct that is guarding a workshop full of potions. The conflict with the construct takes place in a confined space, with warbands trying to avoid attacks while gathering treasure".[26]

Works[edit]

Board Games, Card Games and Miniature Games[edit]

Title Game Credits Date
Warhammer: The Game of Fantasy Battles (4th Edition) Warhammer (4th Edition) Designer 1992
Warhammer: Battle Magic Warhammer (4th Edition) Designer 1992
Renegades: Eldar and Chaos Armies for Space Marine Space Marine Designer 1992
Ork and Squat Warlords Space Marine Designer 1992
Warhammer Armies: Skaven Warhammer (4th Edition) Designer 1993
Warhammer Armies: High Elves Warhammer (4th Edition) Designer 1993
Space Marine Battles Space Marine (2nd edition) Designer 1993
Warhammer 40,000 Warhammer 40,000 (Second edition) Designer 1993
Titan Legions Adeptus Titanicus Designer 1994
Warhammer 40,000 Codex Warhammer 40,000 (Second edition) Designer 1994
Dark Millennium Warhammer 40,000 (Second edition) Designer 1994
Warhammer 40,000 Battles Warhammer 40,000 (Second edition) Designer 1995
Necromunda Necromunda (First edition) Designer 1995
Hive War Space Marine (2nd edition) Designer 1995
Space Hulk Space Hulk (2nd edition) Designer 1996
Necromunda: Outlaws Necromunda (1st edition) Designer 1996
Warhammer Epic 40,000 Warhammer Epic 40k (3rd edition) Designer 1997
Warhammer Armies: High Elves Warhammer (5th Edition) Designer 1997
Warhammer 40,000: Storm of Vengeance Warhammer 40,000 (2nd edition) Designer 1997
Necromunda: Battles in the Underhive Necromunda (1st edition) Designer 1997
Gorkamorka Gorkamorka (1st edition) Designer 1997
Spaceship Battles Warhammer Specialist Game Designer 1998
Bommerz over da Sulphur River Warhammer Specialist Game Designer 1998
Battlefleet Gothic Warhammer Battlefleet Gothic Designer 1999
Warp Storm Warhammer Battlefleet Gothic Designer 2000
Warhammer 40,000: Chapter Approved Warhammer 40,000 (3rd edition) Designer 2001
Warhammer: Skaven Warhammer (6th Edition) Designer 2002
Warhammer 40,000: Battle for Macragge Warhammer 40,000 (4th edition) Designer 2004
Warhammer 40,000 (Fourth Edition) Warhammer 40,000 (4th edition) Designer 2004
Starship Troopers Miniatures Game Starship Troopers: The Miniatures Game Designer 2005
Battlefleet Gothic Armada Warhammer Battlefleet Gothic Designer 2005
Dust Warfare Core Book Dust Warfare Designer 2012
Flame War Flame War (card game) Designer 2012
Fanticide Fanticide Designer 2012
Bolt Action: Armies of the Soviet Union Bolt Action Designer 2013
Bolt Action: Ostfront – Barbarossa to Berlin Bolt Action Designer 2015
Bolt Action: Empires In Flames Bolt Action Designer 2015
Dropfleet Commander Dropzone Commander Designer 2016
Dark Deeds Dark Deeds (card game) Designer 2016
Darker Deeds Dark Deeds (card game) Designer 2017
Blood Red Skies Blood Red Skies Designer 2017
Blood Red Skies: Yakovlev Yak-1 Squadron Blood Red Skies Designer 2017
Blood Red Skies: US Ace Pilot – George Preddy Blood Red Skies Designer 2017
Blood Red Skies: Supermarine Spitfire MK.II Squadron Blood Red Skies Designer 2017
Blood Red Skies: Soviet Ace Pilot – Lydia Litvyak Blood Red Skies Designer 2017
Blood Red Skies: P-51 Mustang Squadron Blood Red Skies Designer 2017
Blood Red Skies: Mitsubishi A6-M5 Zero Squadron Blood Red Skies Designer 2017
Blood Red Skies: Messerschmitt BF109 E Squadron Blood Red Skies Designer 2017
Blood Red Skies: Japanese Ace Pilot – Saburo Sakai Blood Red Skies Designer 2017
Blood Red Skies: German Ace Pilot – Adolf Galland Blood Red Skies Designer 2017
Blood Red Skies: British Ace Pilot – 'Sailor' Malan Blood Red Skies Designer 2017
Blood Red Skies: Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I Blood Red Skies Designer 2017
Warforged: First Contact Warforged: First Contact (board game) Designer 2018
Strontium Dog: The Good, the Bad, & the Mutie Starter Set Strontium Dog Designer 2018
Strontium Dog: Rulebook Strontium Dog Designer 2018
Blood Red Skies: British Ace Pilot – Douglas Bader Blood Red Skies Designer 2018
Blood Red Skies: British – Bristol Blenheim Mk IV Bomber Blood Red Skies Designer 2018
Blood Red Skies: de Havilland Mosquito Squadron Blood Red Skies Designer 2018
Blood Red Skies: German – Junkers Ju 52 Blood Red Skies Designer 2018
Blood Red Skies: German – Junkers Ju 88 A Bomber Blood Red Skies Designer 2018
Blood Red Skies: Hawker Hurricane Squadron Blood Red Skies Designer 2018
Blood Red Skies: Soviet – Liszunov Li-2 Blood Red Skies Designer 2018
Blood Red Skies: Soviet – Tupolev ANT-40 (SB-2) Bomber Blood Red Skies Designer 2018
Blood Red Skies: Allied Ace Pilot – Witold Urbanowicz Blood Red Skies Designer 2019
Blood Red Skies: British – RAF Expansion Pack Blood Red Skies Designer 2019
Blood Red Skies: German Ace Pilot – "Bombo" Schenck Blood Red Skies Designer 2019
Blood Red Skies: German Ace Pilot – "Pips" Priller Blood Red Skies Designer 2019
Blood Red Skies: German Ace Pilot – Eduard Tratt Blood Red Skies Designer 2019
Blood Red Skies: German – Bf 110 Squadron Blood Red Skies Designer 2019
Blood Red Skies: German – Fw 190 Squadron Blood Red Skies Designer 2019
Blood Red Skies: German – Junkers Ju 87D Stuka Squadron Blood Red Skies Designer 2019
Blood Red Skies: German – Luftwaffe Expansion Pack Blood Red Skies Designer 2019
Blood Red Skies: German – Messerschmitt Me 410 Squadron Blood Red Skies Designer 2019

Novels and Short Stories[edit]

Title Series/Setting Date ISBN
Survival Instinct (Necromunda) Necromunda 24 May 2005 978-1844161881
Midnight on the Street of Knives (Dark Eldar Novella) Path of the Dark Eldar June 2011
Path of the Renegade (Dark Eldar Book 1) Path of the Dark Eldar 28 February 2012 978-1849701372
The Treasures of Biel-Tanigh (Dark Eldar Novella) Path of the Dark Eldar 4 February 2013
Bellathonis and the Shadow King (Dark Eldar Novella) Path of the Dark Eldar 11 February 2013
The Masque of Vyle (Harlequins Novella) Path of the Dark Eldar 22 February 2013
Path of the Incubus (Dark Eldar Book 2) Path of the Dark Eldar 26 February 2013 978-1849703000
The Alien Hunters (Deathwatch Novella) Deathwatch: Xenos Hunters 17 March 2014
Path of the Archon (Dark Eldar Book 3) Path of the Dark Eldar 25 March 2014 978-1849705912
Path of the Dark Eldar (Dark Eldar Omnibus) Path of the Dark Eldar 17 March 2015 978-1849708357
The Arkunasha War (Tau Empire Novella) Tau Empire 4 September 2015
Deus Ex Mechanicus (Adeptus Mechanicus Novella) Adeptus Mechanicus 23 April 2018 (first printed Sep 2000 in Inferno! #20)

Role Playing Games[edit]

Title Game Credits Date ISBN
Rites of Battle Deathwatch Designer 2011 978-1589947818
Mark of the Xenos Deathwatch Designer 2011 978-1589947825
Black Crusade Core Rulebook Black Crusade Designer 2011 978-1616611439
Battlefleet Koronus Rogue Trader Designer 2011 978-1589947993
The Lathe Worlds Dark Heresy (1st Edition) Designer 2012 978-1589947689
Accursed Savage Worlds Designer 2013 978-0991343607
Accursed Player's Guide Savage Worlds Designer 2013

Video games[edit]

Title Game Credits Date
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Lead Story Writer July 2010

Magazines[edit]

Title Publication Credits Date
White Dwarf (Issue 124) White Dwarf Magazine Author April 1990
White Dwarf (Issue 127) White Dwarf Magazine Author July 1990
White Dwarf (Issue 134) White Dwarf Magazine Author February 1991
White Dwarf (Issue 136) White Dwarf Magazine Author April 1991
White Dwarf (Issue 137) White Dwarf Magazine Author May 1991
White Dwarf (Issue 145) White Dwarf Magazine Author January 1992
White Dwarf (Issue 151) White Dwarf Magazine Author July 1992
White Dwarf (Issue 186) White Dwarf Magazine Author June 1995
White Dwarf (Issue 189) White Dwarf Magazine Author September 1995
Game Trade Magazine (Issue 194) Game Trade Magazine Author April 2016

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