Skirmish In the Crusades With Osprey’s Outremer: Faith & Blood
April 12, 2018 by dracs
Osprey have a new set of historical skirmish rules currently up for pre-order. Gather your warband and join the Crusades in Outremer: Faith & Blood.
This set of skirmish rules focuses on fast gameplay, taking about forty-five to sixty minutes a game, with players having the chance to grow and develop their warband as they fight a campaign for control of Outremer.
In a recent blog post, Osprey provided a quick look at the factions.
There are the Franks or Crusaders, a disparate warband of men and women, come to the Crusader states in search of fortune and glory for God.
Then there are the various military orders, monastic knights who started off protecting pilgrims but grew into one of the most influential groups in the Crusader states.
Then we have the Saracens, a collective term for those forces that fought under the banner of Islam.
These factions each have plenty of room within themselves to come up with your own unique backgrounds and characters.
I had never considered the idea of a Crusader-era skirmish. When you think of the time, you tend to imagine large scale battles and sieges. However, bringing it down to the skirmish level allows for far more personal stories to play out.
Do you plan to pick this game up when it gets released on April 19th?
"Bringing it down to the skirmish level allows for far more personal stories..."
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Love the crusades as a setting, but old-school chunky minis are not for me. I look forward to the day when these historical games start making some models that are on par with what we’re seeing in the fantasy and sci-fi realm.
That would be nice as long as there not the same sort of prices for them
Each to their own. I like the relative simplicity of historical minis.
there are some lovely historical ranges around.
alot of gripping beast and perry stuff is great.
Fireforge plastics would work well for this game, and mix well with plastics from other ranges.
it seems that osprey let the authors of their rules decide which figures are used for the promo shots. Lion rampant has lovely images of well painted medival armies, where dragon rampant has grainy pictures of the authors old collection of minifigs miniatures slathered in thick enamel paint.
Love this time period! Might have to pick this ruleset up.
Would look great using Legion Heroicas 15mm ranges
Interesting aquarium terrain..
I will be trying out 15mm saga once my forged in battle dark ages stuff comes in, maybe I will give this a go too.
Hello Guys! I’m the author of the book; I’m a keen wargamer myself so I’m always about on the forums. With reference to the miniatures point raised above; I have to say during playtesting I bought 100s of crusade era minis for my Warbands and demo forces. Admittedly there are some chunky old sculpts out there but there are also some fantastic modern plastics that are on par with Citadel and others. For my Military Order Force I used predominantly Fireforge plastics which are fantastic. Even a lot of the metal stuff is now really detailed and well-crafted.
True, I saw this and thought another game for Fireforge and Conquest Games miniatures, but there are tons of good metals out there. My guess is the photos have more to do with permissions, am I right.