Joe MaCullough, the man behind Oathmark; the forthcoming fantasy mass battle rule system from Osprey, gives us a detailed overview of how the game plays.
Coming to this a bit late I know! Everything Joe produces seems to have the perfect balance of fun, playability, simple yet immersive rules and the encouragement to do your own thing.
My roots are in Fantasy war gaming(and sci-fi), however I primarily now have concentrated on Historicals. That said I am partial to Frostgrave and Oathmark because well written and presented fantasy can be as engaging as the best historical stuff. Thats why I took my subscription of WI. I presume I am the norm now, someone who is into both and appreciates coverage of both.
The more I hear about this game the more I am sold in it. D10, consistent tech level, being able to take a force from many races, activation rolls, and alternative activations. I'm already putting money aside for this game.
Big fan of Frostgrave. Thought I'd left my Warhammer days behind me. But I might take a look at this. Be very interested to see what he does with the magic system.
@@estrathmeyer yeh I might take a look. Have so many systems on the go. A song of fire and ice takes some beating though. If you've not tried it yet. You must.
Well, with COVID and all that, I went into my garage and pulled out my last Fantasy Warhammer project that I never finished out of moth balls - an army of hobbits. Maybe proxying then as goblins would be appropriate.
So now we have diversity and multi-culturalism in fantasy war gaming? Lol. Orcs, Elves, Dwarves, Goblins, Trolls, Ogres and Humans all working together? I hope they wrote rules for trans-models too.....like a male elf transitioning to a female orc. Wait a minute: am I a racist misogynist if I only play Dwarf males? Errrr....No thanks.....the world is weird enough without confusing my gaming too!
You're acting like an ass. This gives players a lot of options for building armies. If someone has several small armies from skirmish games you can put them together into a big army and start playing right away.
That seems a very ridiculous hot take. I mean you have to look no further than Middle Earth to find pretty much most of those combos... Dwarves fought with both Humans and Elves, There's evil humans and even Dwarves in the employ of the dark forces... and if you're playing an army of Dark Elves, why wouldn't they enslave some Goblins, Trolls or Ogres? Why couldn't you have wood elves with spiders, but also goblins with spiders? Honestly reads more like you're the one looking for anything at all to be offended over.
So your response to being given more options is to act offended? Ok, a bit weird. Also, fantasy is littered with alliances of different races, so it isn't anything new.
