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Discovered the Dwarf sculpts a few weeks ago and I'm in love with them. When I actually get some time and my Song backlog cleared will definitely at least be picking up a box of the heavy infantry.

Not sure how much of an appetite there will be for this locally outside of the tiny number of Kings of War players, but we'll see.

 Arbitrator wrote:
Discovered the Dwarf sculpts a few weeks ago and I'm in love with them. When I actually get some time and my Song backlog cleared will definitely at least be picking up a box of the heavy infantry.

Not sure how much of an appetite there will be for this locally outside of the tiny number of Kings of War players, but we'll see.

I know in Louisville (I'm no longer there but I still admin the facebook groups) that this is actually blowing up quite big. It rivals Conquest now in players, and Kings of War doesn't exist in Louisville (you have to drive an hour south for some of that).

Not sure how things are where I am now with Oathmark. Covid keeps me inside mostly. There is a 9th age presence here but no Kings of War and Conquest has some rumblings but not actually being played that I can tell.

How's the game now that several supplements have come out? Me and a couple of players are thinking about jumping in.

 SgtBANZAI wrote:
How's the game now that several supplements have come out? Me and a couple of players are thinking about jumping in.

Best narrative mass battle game out there.

I've finally decided to build small Oathmark army, using Northstar Goblin Infantry box as mainstay troops and adding up Reaper's aberrations to act as monsters and elite. I was unimpressed by the models at first, but after painting them I think they're solid plastic build. Definitely will recommend them to anyone willing to build generic orc/goblin based army.

 SgtBANZAI wrote:
I've finally decided to build small Oathmark army, using Northstar Goblin Infantry box as mainstay troops and adding up Reaper's aberrations to act as monsters and elite. I was unimpressed by the models at first, but after painting them I think they're solid plastic build. Definitely will recommend them to anyone willing to build generic orc/goblin based army.

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For some reason I cannot see any of the images unless I select ''open in another page''.

Tried to fix it, does it work now?

 SgtBANZAI wrote:
Tried to fix it, does it work now?

Yes, thanks!

i hope they keep the fluff light, i can of like something generic where it lets put any story you want into it

that said im very irritated at myself for missing the recent sale on the rules!

 SgtBANZAI wrote:
I've finally decided to build small Oathmark army, using Northstar Goblin Infantry box as mainstay troops and adding up Reaper's aberrations to act as monsters and elite. I was unimpressed by the models at first, but after painting them I think they're solid plastic build. Definitely will recommend them to anyone willing to build generic orc/goblin based army.

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Those look fantastic, really like the skin tone, how did you achieve it? I may have to do my Goblins with the same skin tone as it really works.

 stonehorse wrote:

Those look fantastic, really like the skin tone, how did you achieve it? I may have to do my Goblins with the same skin tone as it really works.

Thanks! Skin tone is very simple - black primer, Citadel's Ushabti Bone as base, then small amount of black wash and highlighting with Vallejo's Off White.

Has anybody already tried conducting Oathmark campaign? So far I've had only one game and quite liked the rules themselves, but I'm not impressed by the campaign system. It looks way too simple, even with added flavour of random events. I also find it a bit surprising that occupied territories do pretty much nothing (only granting +1 to activation roll of enemy units from that territory) and serve only as stepping stone in attacking enemy capital.

Depends on what you are after. The campaign gives us a stage to play on. It is probably the best campaign system that is currently out there commercially as far as I'm concerned.

That said if you want more depth and crunch, you can tailor it how you see fit. I'm fond of doing that myself.

 auticus wrote:

That said if you want more depth and crunch, you can tailor it how you see fit.

If my group finally gets around to fielding armies big enough for Oathmark we most likely will. It's still better than the only one other "commercial" campaign I've played (Saga - Age of Wolves, which was, in my opinion, completely barebones), but there's strange feeling of something missing, like not enough on the global map happening to justify it.

I am finally getting around to planning out how to demo Oathmark to friends and decided to make two small forces so I can illustraate the various mechanics. I chose to make Dwarf and Undead armies that will each be gradually expanded to include Human and Goblin elements respectively. Here are the basis starter lists I came up with:

Dwarf Prince 165
Dwarf Soldiers (9) 135
Dwarf Champion 62
Dwarf Militia (9) 126
Dwarf Border Guard (5) 85

Revenant Prince 156
Revenant Warriors (4) 68
Necromancer (Lvl 2) w/Ring of Spellcasting 130
Skeletal Warriors (10) 110
Skeletal Warriors (10) 110

While working out the Undead list and how to expand it, it occurred to me that Skeletal Archers are incredibly bad — not because they are S0, but because they are S0 at 14pts. In other games, I would just suck it up. The principal ranged unit of this faction is bad, so be it. But in Oathmark, where you can pull in units from other lists, the result here practically eliminating an entry in the Undead List. Kind of a bummer especially considering there’s not much point building any Skeletal Archers from the excellent North Star sprue. Or am I getting this wrong? Is 14pts appropriate considering A3 and Undead special rule?

Don't have any experience with the Undead (my opponent is only starting to collect his), but yes, on paper they seem to be mechanically useless in comparison to other, more cheap, archer options. A3 is counterweighted by the fact they only roll one die to activate. In general I have a feeling pricing is not tight; trolls are barely more expensive than heavy cavalry, but difference in power and amount of special rules is absurd.

Stuff like Trolls and even Heavy Cavalry are pretty peripheral. The core tactical elements are infantry supported by archers. And the Undead have to look to other lists for half of that basic premise, seemingly.

Watching batreps with units of 10-20 Skeletal Archers, they really seem to do very little. I keep wondering what I am missing.

 Manchu wrote:
Stuff like Trolls and even Heavy Cavalry are pretty peripheral.

In my experience - only until they start smashing one box after another. For our campaign in the future I personally want to limit monster infantry to 1 base for every 500 points of battle size.

I keep wondering what I am missing.

Nothing? They can very well be just outright bad, and author didn't think about it.

It’s possible that the points cost is a typo and that they should be 12 or 13 points. At 12 pts, I think they are acceptable and in line with the other lists. That said, I read somewhere that Joe confirmed that all army list values are what they are supposed to be — I just haven’t seen this directly written by him. But there are no corrections to this (or the CD of Elf Mounted Rangers, for example) in the current Errata & FAQ doc.

I would personally drop their cost to 12 points, maybe 11 or even 10, because they are by far the worst archers in the entire game.

I think anybody can freely tweak the ruleset however they want; it's not competitive and not popular to receive pressure from the gaming crowd, there aren't multiple tournament-centric Oathmark-exclusive clubs to force their "no homerules allowed" attitude.

IIRC even Goblin Archers are S1 and they are 10 pts each. But I will stick to the entries as published, certainly until I have actually played lots of games.

I don't think you're missing anything. I've seen players in other social media tear the bow arms off to make them melee after using them.

Unfortunately there are a some units whose point cost is too much or little. And skelly archers are one of them.

Does anybody know of any medium-sized (100x50 mm base) monster fit for mounting small catapult on its back (good if it already has one or visible "natural" breathing weapon)? Something like Tyranid Pyrovore, but I hesitate to use Tyranids because they're way too familiar and will look off personally for me. I want to field it as mobile living artillery instead of catapults for my Horde army. I did think about GW's Lizardmen dinosaurs, but they seem to be somewhat bigger.

 SgtBANZAI wrote:
Does anybody know of any medium-sized (100x50 mm base) monster fit for mounting small catapult on its back (good if it already has one or visible "natural" breathing weapon)? Something like Tyranid Pyrovore, but I hesitate to use Tyranids because they're way too familiar and will look off personally for me. I want to field it as mobile living artillery instead of catapults for my Horde army. I did think about GW's Lizardmen dinosaurs, but they seem to be somewhat bigger.

I wanted to suggest the catapult troll from ridgeback miniatures to you but it seems they've gone out of service unfortunately.
What about GW's Ogre thundertusk? You have an Ogre throwing bear traps on top, you have the thing itself doing some Ice breathing. Or just take the beast and put a catapult on top. Or their Rhino that comes with a catapult.

Or look at some elephants in historical ranges, they should fit on 50x100mm bases.

Just throwing out some ideas here since, as you said, Tyranids seem like a stretch for a fantasy game, depending on paint scheme it could work, though.

I was thinking about contrasting white and black/dark purple colours, think Leviathan Tyranids or Dark Elves. An army of otherwordly invaders with different warbred beasts and forcefully recruited locals. I'll check Ogres, but Thundertusk looks to be on the bigger scale, too.

For example, that's how my "trolls" look like.

I also would like to hear opinions and probably examples of custom made lists for the game. Has anybody implemented new factions with any luck, what rules have you come up with and how does it fit?

I was tinkering with a warriors of chaos styled list, just never finished it.

What characteristics did you intend to give them? Or special rules?

Also, what do you think about Oathmark now that there have been several expansions?

... When the Lamb broke the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, "Come." I looked, and behold, a pale horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hell was following with him...

Poor infantry man...That monster is awesome. what company it is from?