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Author Topic: (Commercial) Oathmark has been launched today.  (Read 2851 times)

Offline Davout

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Re: (Commercial) Oathmark has been launched today.
« Reply #15 on: April 02, 2020, 08:54:36 PM »
Ordered my copy today. Eager to get some armies on the table

Offline Tim Haslam

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Re: (Commercial) Oathmark has been launched today.
« Reply #16 on: April 02, 2020, 09:21:38 PM »
Good point Hobgoblin!
I was going to rebase my figures on 25mm rounds.
But thinking about it I don’t need to!
A millionaire trapped in a peasants body!

Offline Sir_Theo

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Re: (Commercial) Oathmark has been launched today.
« Reply #17 on: April 04, 2020, 12:38:53 PM »
I got mine this morning (thanks Northstar!)

From my initial flip through the game looks pretty fun and I'm looking forward to trying it out. Nice straightforward rules with lots of fantasy flavour and think I can picture how it plays (which is important for me nowadays!) and as expected from Osprey hardbacks nowadays it looks absolutely splendid.

I love the concept of Kingdom creation, its really firing my imagination. Its reminding me of when I was a young kid with imagination fired up by Tolkien and the fighting fantasy books drawing maps of make believe kingdoms and chronicling their history... Yes I was a nerd as a kid  lol

Offline monkeylite

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Re: (Commercial) Oathmark has been launched today.
« Reply #18 on: April 04, 2020, 03:31:54 PM »
I have a question about individual character movement. Mostly for wizards, I guess.

Do you have to obey the movement rules for a standard unit, or are there some special movement rules for indivduals that I can't find?


Offline Sir_Theo

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Re: (Commercial) Oathmark has been launched today.
« Reply #19 on: April 05, 2020, 07:50:44 AM »
I have a question about individual character movement. Mostly for wizards, I guess.

Do you have to obey the movement rules for a standard unit, or are there some special movement rules for indivduals that I can't find?

Units of one can pivot at any time up unto they've been activated.

Offline monkeylite

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Re: (Commercial) Oathmark has been launched today.
« Reply #20 on: April 05, 2020, 08:42:45 AM »
Units of one can pivot at any time up unto they've been activated.

That's brilliant, thankyou.


Offline Sir_Theo

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Re: (Commercial) Oathmark has been launched today.
« Reply #21 on: April 05, 2020, 09:00:31 AM »
That's brilliant, thankyou.

No problem, I'd just happened to read it this morning! P. 28.

They can also pivot during other units activations (as long as they haven't been activated already)

Offline Nord

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Re: (Commercial) Oathmark has been launched today.
« Reply #22 on: April 06, 2020, 06:56:21 PM »
Can anybody with the book give a summary of the units included, doesn't have to be detailed just a rough idea. Wondering if there are units like artillery, chariot, monsters, heros riding monsters, or is it a bit more vanilla/quasi historical?

Offline Sir_Theo

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Re: (Commercial) Oathmark has been launched today.
« Reply #23 on: April 06, 2020, 11:33:22 PM »
Each of the 4 races have a variety of different heroes of different tiers, some different types of Infantry and cavalry types, artillery (catalults/ballista types no black powder weapons) and a couple of monster types. There are also unaligned Monsters that can be taken (if your kingdom has the requisite terrain) . No monstrous mounts so I guess in order to do that you'd have to home rule something.

Offline Byrthnoth

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Re: (Commercial) Oathmark has been launched today.
« Reply #24 on: April 06, 2020, 11:52:40 PM »
Can anybody with the book give a summary of the units included, doesn't have to be detailed just a rough idea. Wondering if there are units like artillery, chariot, monsters, heros riding monsters, or is it a bit more vanilla/quasi historical?

I haven't got the book yet, but Osprey put an army planner on their blog a little while ago -- it's a pdf form that has drop down menus that let you choose all the different troop types and the number of figures in each unit and it will give you a points total for your army.

I'm using a mac and I needed to use Adobe Acrobat to access the drop down menus - I couldn't do it through opening the pdf in my browser.

Offline Tim Haslam

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Re: (Commercial) Oathmark has been launched today.
« Reply #25 on: April 08, 2020, 12:33:39 PM »
Got my copy this morning.

Loving it, good old fashioned fantasy.
Love the kingdom building, in fact my poor 19 year old student daughter has got stuck in isolation with me! But she intends to make a fantasy map of my kingdom just to help her boredom  lol

I’ve just ordered a load of 20mm bases to rebase all my current fantasy stuff.
I’m thinking rather than waste these, I’ll use them but use sabot movement trays to the correct width.

I assume, depending on the success of this, that more races will become available, like The Undead for example?

I’ve not read all the rules yet, so not up on fliers and putting characters on big beasties.
But I like the simple back to basics style.
Obviously it’s currently built around the Oathmark range available.

Brilliant

Offline Aesthete

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Re: (Commercial) Oathmark has been launched today.
« Reply #26 on: April 08, 2020, 09:50:52 PM »
Looking forward to getting my hands on the book - I ordered via my FLGS.
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