Games Workshop has been around for *years* and it's British. Nathan
used to be
*obsessed* with the stuff, as did his mates - some of them still are.
Mind you,
the games are battle games using strategy so from that point of view,
they
teach thinking about what you need to do to achieve your aim. Horribly
expensive for what it is though.
Yes I thought it might be British, there is something very Red
Dwarf/Rimmerish about it. I knew a few people (grown adults, men of
course) who were seriously into it and spent all their money making
model battering rams and stuff and painting whitemetal figures at £13
a go. One of them was banned by his wife who got concerned at what the
neighbours would think about a succession of teenage boys coming round
their house of a Sunday afternoon to play it!. My 11 year old's £4
pocket money a week is not going to go very far once he gets roped into
it, Woollies did a fake version for a while, it was ridiculously cheap
and ready painted but of course not the "real" thing so no-one bought
it.