Warriors is the fifth solo studio album by the English new wave musician Gary Numan, released on 16 September 1983 by Beggars Banquet Records.

He had written most of the album's material in late 1982-early 1983, while he was living in Jersey, Channel Islands (after spending a few months in Los Angeles, California as a tax exile).

Numan was not keen at first, but WEA managing director Mike Heap promised him "a virtually unlimited promotional budget" on the album if he signed up a producer.

It was stated sometime after the release of the album WEA had, in fact, told Numan that he was reaching sales of 60,000 units, and that was satisfactory to them.

"[5] Numan later claimed that Warriors pointed the way for his artistic decline throughout the 1980s: I thought that by getting in some of the best players and singers around I could make the albums more 'musical,' and that my own limitations would be less of a problem.

I didn't realise what I was doing, but with Warriors I was lighting the fires of what came close to being my funeral...If burying myself under the impressive performances of [other musicians and singers] was, ultimately, the wrong direction in which to be moving, it did give the albums some stunning musical moments.

Numan asked Dick Morrissey to be the saxophonist on the album, as he admired his work on the film score for Blade Runner (1982).

Female backing vocals were also introduced to the Numan sound on Warriors, provided by Tracy Ackerman of the English jazz-funk band Shakatak.

Numan ultimately disliked Nelson's mix of Warriors (finding it "too tinny"), and so he remixed the album and made changes to the track listing: both "My Car Slides" and "Poetry and Power" were relegated to B-side status (their place on the album being taken by other tracks), and "Sister Surprise" and "The Tick Tock Man" were almost completely re-recorded.

Numan later conceded that Nelson "did a lot of very inventive things on [Warriors] which, because of our differences, I failed to fully appreciate at the time.

Fans were given the opportunity to vote for one of three potential album titles – This Prison Moon, Poetry and Power, and Glasshouse.

Numan ultimately overruled the fans' preference of This Prison Moon and chose Warriors as the album's title.

[12] Numan's image for the Warriors album, singles, and live tour (consisting of black leather costume with weapon accessories, set against a post-apocalyptic backdrop) was influenced by the film Mad Max 2 (1981).

"Gary has sunk further into his make-believe world of ominous fantasy where sci-fi escapism can bolster insecurity and Gary can sink grate-fully into his comic strip character and remain forever the hero.” Fitzgerald positively noted "The Iceman Comes" as the album's highlight: "A gradual and brooding example of slow-tempo funk, its chilling basslines weave a compulsive spell and just for one moment Gary lets spontaneity override his obsessive need to control, allowing the vocal to ride with the music instead of dominating it.

It's well played, sweetly produced and at times Dick Morrissey's sax is quite lovely.”[15] Reviewing the album for The Guardian, Robin Denselow found that “The music shows some signs of progression.

Chattering synthesisers and good growling bass work from Joe Hubbard lead off into efficient electro-funk pieces like I Am Render and This Prison Moon, or cool, gentle jazzy pieces like The Iceman Comes.” Mark Steels in Time Out wrote: “Numan is possessed of far more talent than he is given credit for, showing him to be both a mood-piece composer of no little merit and a producer of imagination and skill.

Morrissey's measured solos, Joe Hubbard's nimble bass work and Cedric Sharpley's crisp, unfussy drumming lend many of the tracks an engaging jazz-funk feel.

Numan's friend and former bassist, Paul Gardiner, made an onstage appearance during a "Warriors" show at the Hammersmith Odeon, London.

To date, no live albums or videos from the 1983 tour have been officially released, although the BBC did record the final night at the Hammersmith Odeon, and the 20 October show in Glasgow is believed[by whom?]