GMG Reviews: Xenos Rampant by Osprey Games 

...or my Helghast army?

...or my Warzone Imperials...

OH, YEEEEEEAH! 💪

I have! Im totally ripped between them but I lean more to XR. The biggest difference between the two is the fact that XR does not have absolutely set units, such as a battle brother will only allowed certain items for that model vs XR elite infantry (or heavy for a more horus heresy feel) you can design that unit with almost anything you want! To top it off XR scenerios are very much narrative focus, a lot of the fights will have each side fighting for certain objectives on a battlefield that may give one side a slight advantage. In the end they are both fun but I feel more for XR because im very much free to use anything I want in any way.

No army lists trying to clone other games.

It's on the works!

@@GuerrillaMiniatureGames awesome! Can't wait!

@@GuerrillaMiniatureGames I enjoyed the video but, as a previous commenter mentioned, you've misunderstood what "Free" activations are. They are not additional activations, every unit only ever has 1 activation per turn. A "Free" activation simply indicates that the unit automatically passes that type of Activation Test. So, Heavy Infantry, for example, automatically pass activation tests for Shooting, but have to roll to Move or Attack. Elite units are unusual in that they automatically pass 2 different tests: Shoot and Attack. Most units have a single "Free" activation, while poor old Militia Rabble have to pass a test for all activations types (and will probably fail to do so!).

That depends entirely on you. You have 24 points to spend, and free rein to do so in a vast number of ways. Taken to extremes, it is perfectly possible to field 1 model as a single 24pt unit, or to field 240 models, as 24 1pt units - not that I'd recommend doing either of these 😂. The lovely thing about this ruleset is that you are free to field the models you love, and then craft the unit stats to match the models.

Note this is from Dragon Rampant and the exact names might change, but the game mechanism is the same. You basically scale unit size with their strength points total. This is effectively the number of casualties a unit can take before it's defeated, though they will likely fail a courage(morale) test before that. So view strength as wounds for all practical purposes. A typical elite foot unit in Dragon Rampant would have 6 strength points and thus 6 wounds. That would be a unit 6 elite fighters. So If you wanted that to be 3 elite fighters, you would still have 6 strength but it would take 2 "wounds" to kill one model, or a unit of one powerful hero would have 6 "wounds". So the scaling isn't much more than just using wound counters and less models over using more models as actual wound counters and removing them each damage point. Effectively, it's just semantics and adapting to the models you have. Mechanically everything else about the unit would be the same, though they will often be easier to move and get into cover, being smaller. You could make big tough units, say ogres, the same way from other troop types, as normal troops have 12 strength, but are far easier to damage, with numbers accounting for their quality, so to speak.

@@johnmiddleton4291 Really appreciate this!