Battlefront Miniatures, makers of Flames of War, are probably another Top5 company I would imagine. Crocodile Games maybe? They have a lot of nice minis (former GW sculptor Chris Fitzpatrick does stuff for them) but I don\'t know if anyone actually plays.
The funny thing about the wargaming industry is how close it is to a monopoly. Reaper, PP, Rackham and some of the other \"major players\" in the industry actually make up a tiny portion of the market share. I haven\'t seen the studies themselves, but (according to the head of Canada\'s Retail division) GW has over 95% of the market share worldwide. That\'s pretty crazy. Given these statistics, it\'s pretty hard to say there are any large competitors for GW.
Warmachine/Hordes has been fairly popular the last couple of years, but not many of the other games have very active gaming communities (at least from what I\'ve seen/heard in Canada and on forums). Rackham is way more known for their (now OOP) metal range than their games, and Flames of War is a fairly small niche. Reaper might not even factor into the GW competition because the vast majority of what they do is D&D Figures. Way back in the day that was Citadel\'s bread and butter, but they\'ve come a long way since then. The tabletop/RP split probably skews the numbers a bit, but realistically it\'s still a pretty huge gap between GW and the competition. I dunno, does this qualify as an oligopoly? I didn\'t take anything beyond first-year Microeconomics
I\'m curious about the nature of the project, and what you\'re looking at in the gaming industry. If you don\'t mind posting any of these details, I\'d sure be interested to find out
