Rackham is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 miniature and role-playing game

Role-playing game

A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...

s production company founded in 1997 by Jean Bey, CEO and Creative Director.

Rackham has over 70 employees, including designers, illustrator

Illustrator

An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...

s, writers, sculptors, painters, foundry

Foundry

A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings. Metals are cast into shapes by melting them into a liquid, pouring the metal in a mold, and removing the mold material or casting after the metal has solidified as it cools. The most common metals processed are aluminum and cast iron...

-workers, and were managed by Jean Bey until November 2008. Since the transformation to Rackham Entertainment, Jean Bey retains only his Art Director position and the management of the Sentinel program.

The company's main product is the miniature wargame Confrontation, which has been translated into five languages and marketed in 41 countries. In 2006 Rackham published the role-playing game Cadwallon

Cadwallon (role-playing game)

Cadwallon is a role-playing game published by Rackham in book form in 2006. It is set in the fantasy world of Rackham's previous game Confrontation. A tactical role-playing game, it is played with miniatures...

set in the world of Confrontation. Also in 2006, Rackham released a sci-fi squad level wargame called AT-43

At-43

AT-43 is a science fiction tabletop wargame using 28 mm miniature figures and terrain to scale developed and published by the French company Rackham.The game is classified as a platoon/company level game similar to Warhammer 40,000....

. Rackham has also released a boardgame called Hybrid.

Since July 2005, Rackham is listed on the Euronext

Euronext

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 stock market

Stock market

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Since October 2008, Rackham re-emerged as Rackham Entertainment. ,

Since October 2010, Rackham Entertainment Company is in liquidation.

External links

• Rackham's official website (in French and English)