Warseer Forum/EEFL Forum Games Workshop Fantasy release timeline: https://eefl.freeforums.net/thread/1622/games-workshop-fantasy-releases-timeline Advanced rules in Oathmark mostly include rules for characters. We are talking about Commanders, Spellcasters and Champions. When you sport a character, you can choose to fight with the entire group that the hero is in, or with the hero alone. When you go with the hero alone, you get to use the hero’s statistics and the models in the unit essentially become his (or her) hit points. Unlike other games, heroes are not super powerful. While you might choose to fight with your hero alone, there will be plenty of times that you will be better off using the fight stats of the unit they are in instead of fighting individually.

How many miniatures come in a box? 30. Doing the math, that gets you six of the above sprues. Built SkeletonsAnd there are quite a bit of spares after assembly, so your bitbox is going to grow by a few parts. The miniatures here match up quite nicely to the artwork that we saw on the cover of Oathbreakers and have that awesome shambling quality to them from classic Fantasy. It works very well with the Tolkienesque elements of Fantasy that Oathmark was woven into his aesthetic through their releases. There are a number of advanced rules for players to take the game up to the next notch. Personally, I am going to try to get into the advanced rules as soon as I start playing, but that is just how I roll. Now, let’s take a little look at some of the advance rules in this Oathmark review. Oathmark is designed to be a “bring the models that you have” type of game, and the game is meant for 28mm miniatures. That said, there are some rules to unit composition.

The game expects your models to be based on 25mm bases for your regular sized infantry, 25mm by 50mm for your cavalry and 50mm bases for your large figures. 50mm by 100mm bases are reserved for your biggest miniatures in the game. It doesn’t matter if you use round or square bases. The official miniatures come with square bases, but I plan to base them on rounds because I plan to use them for other games too (like Frostgrave). Engineers for every race: I dont think, that it will ever be separate engineer boxes. Only a few from them are needed, and the different races mean different sprues... Or a combined sprue? Because there would be no need for so many weapon options, means, there would be more place for bodies. For example 2 bodies from every race (including orcs and goblins) and some weapons? Sounds good, but not very likely...On top of producing a box of skeleton infantry, North Star Military Figures also created special figures for your undead army. Like Battlesworn this book is a nice and well-made addition to the game. When you view your Kingdom as an Army generator and don't care for chariots you could certainly skip this one and still have fun playing Oathmark for the foreseeable future. I think some people might be turned off by the 25mm base requirement, as many other systems use 20mm bases. That said, I think it is a small problem to have. Rather than re-basing your figures, just toss them on larger movement trays, or go with 20mm bases if your opponent is cool with that. I certainly would not make my opponent re-base their army just to conform to the rules above. Before starting, I want to thank Osprey Games for giving me permission to use images from the book, and for sending me a review copy of the game.

The book also contains three Military Expeditions. These are actually ready-to-play mini-campaigns of up to 4 scenarios that come with a few unique territories to be won.The spearman is WGA too, tweaked with an Oathmark helmet - to mark them as a leader for the spearmen unit. With the comparatively long list of undead boxes in the beginning, we of course have to show you these skeletons next to some other undead miniatures. From left to the right, the classic Warhammer Skeletons, Mantic Games' Skeleton, Oathmark Skeletons, the skeletons build from the Frostgrave cultists kit and the Mantic Ghouls. Oathbreakers has s urprisingly nothing, not even the box art of the already available Skeleton Infantry... Faction of Demons (Im not in love with them, but a lot of players could be attracted to Oathmark with it, and I think thatOathmark could be real successorof WHFB, but only if every former player finds a place for his army...)