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Review: Outremer: Faith and Blood- Osprey Games



The Crusades seem to have been gaining in popularity in the wargaming circuit in the last half decade. Games like Dues Vult, Soldiers of God, Saga: Crescent and Cross, and LionRampant have fueled this surge of interest with gamers. In addition, a number of interesting model lines have also been released. Plus, the Crusades themselves have a pretty intriguing and interesting history of their own to draw in players.

Outremer: Faith and Blood is set during the Crusades. It is the most recent addition to the Osprey Games blue covered Wargame Series. Unlike some of the other Crusade-era games, Outremer is designed for small scale, model vs. model skirmish action. Each side is between 3 and 12 models. In addition to be a small scale skirmish, the focus of the game is campaign play. This type of game is right up my alley and I look forward to digging in closer to the rules. We will follow my normal four steps of Things I like, Things I do NOT like, Meh and other uncertainties, and Final Thoughts as we proceed.

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I want to try it, but my group seems to be getting burned out with new rule sets. Maybe when my kids are a bit bigger. I think they would like the campaign style narrative this is designed for.

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You should definitely try it... but I’m biased!! I’m the Author!!

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I like the fact that it is a relatively low model count game, so you can get a warband for all three factions ready to go and on the table quickly.

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I'm always on the lookout for good campaign skirmish games, so this looks like a welcome addition. Thanks, your reviews are always well written and to the point.

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Cheers for the review, we having been playing around with Crusades for a while with Deus Vult.

These are probably outside our scope as we are looking at big battles but without your review I wouldn't have known that so thanks.

Regards Ken
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