Gale Force Nine

(GF9) is a company that publishes and sells wargames and game accessories such as miniatures and terrain.

GF9 was started as a game accessory manufacturer in 1998 by John Kovaleski, [1] producing tokens and templates for companies like Privateer Press.

In 2007, another game company, Battlefront, purchased GF9, and the company subsequently expanded its production lines to include Battlefield in a Box, a line of fully painted terrain for miniature wargames, as well as licensed miniatures and accessories for Dungeons & Dragons.

[2] In February 2009, Battlefront Miniatures Ltd of Auckland announced that they purchased Gale Force Nine.

In 2010, GF9 published their first board wargame, Spartacus,[3] and followed this up with Star Trek: Ascendancy and licensed expansions for Dune[4] and the Firefly franchise.