[COMMERCIAL] On Bloody Ground - The New Kingdom pre-order out now!

[wipgamesandminiatures]

Good news! We've approved the proof for The New Kingdom, and pre-release details have been added to the website.

Remember, all pre-orders are guaranteed to be posted out on the same day that we receive the new stock from our printers, which means that most will arrive well before the rulebook goes on general release.

This is the seventh book in the On Bloody Ground series, which is just incredible! We want to take a moment to say a massive 'Thank you' to everyone that's bought one of our rulebooks so far. It's very humbling to know that OBG is being played around the globe.

Also, there's plenty more to come from us, as we're on schedule to release 10 to 12 new rulebooks this year.

Our next set will be revealed very shortly. But until then, any guesses as to what period we'll be covering next?



https://www.wipgamesandminiatures.com/.../the-new-kingdom

[SJWi]

Hi. I've seen your various rulebooks but what I can't find are the army basics. I have 23 ancient /medieval armies all based for Impetus. Some are  multi-based others individually based on sabots. Before thinking of "investing" can you advise what the basing requirements are....if any. I don't plan to rebase any of my armies.

Thanks

[fairoaks024]

In hard to make out print on the image it says
?Primarily designed for individually based 28mm miniatures?

[wipgamesandminiatures]

Hi. I've seen your various rulebooks but what I can't find are the army basics. I have 23 ancient /medieval armies all based for Impetus. Some are  multi-based others individually based on sabots. Before thinking of "investing" can you advise what the basing requirements are....if any. I don't plan to rebase any of my armies.

Thanks

Hi, thanks for the question.

I'm not 100% sure on the basing sizes for Impetus so I don't know how easily it would transfer over for you.

Our recommended scale is 28mm but you can play the game at any scale you like. At this size we advise individual infantry to be on 20mm x 20mm, cavalry on 25mm x 50mm, and commanders on 40/50mm round/square.

If you have units that are multiples of this, that makes it easy to adapt already based armies from other games (40mm x 40mm = 4 infantry etc.).

We do make a point of saying that movement trays are important in the game for measurements, as well as depiction of total unit strength (where the models are on the tray is fluid depending on what you're doing), so it also lets you get away with not having perfectly sized units if you're coming over from another game system.

A good example would be if you wanted to represent 24 infantry 6x4. Normally this would be 120mm x 80mm. If you had multiple elements of 50mm x 40mm you could put 4 of them on the correct size movement tray (2x2) and then track wounds taken with some sort of marker. Once you lost 6 wounds you could take off an element to help keep track of what sort of state your units are in. I know this isn't ideal but you could definitely get away with playing like that (we have done so plenty of times!).

I hope that helps out at least a little! 

Dan

[wipgamesandminiatures]

In hard to make out print on the image it says
?Primarily designed for individually based 28mm miniatures?

That is correct, yes.

The image doesn't show up that part of the book very well I'll have to agree, although on our website you can see that very clearly.

It says: "Simple to understand and brutally fun mass combat wargames rules designed primarily for use with individually based 28mm miniatures"

We do also have a resources tab on our website which includes some information on how to adapt different base sizes to play OBG.

I've linked below if this is of interest to anyone, and this may also be helpful for you as well SJWi 

https://www.wipgamesandminiatures.com/resources

[jcspqr]

Does the Egyptian book include the core rules or is it, and the other campaign book just supplements to the core rules book?

[wipgamesandminiatures]

Does the Egyptian book include the core rules or is it, and the other campaign book just supplements to the core rules book?

Hi jcspqr, each of the books contain the main rules for OBG and then period specific rules and army lists so you only have to buy one book and you can play the game!