Osprey Games Help Us Build Armies For Upcoming Oathmark
February 4, 2020 by brennon
Osprey Games has been delving into a bit of army building for Oathmark: Battles Of The Lost Age. With lots of plastic and metal now available they thought it would be best to give us an indication as to how many models you'll need to start battling in this game.
This is a 2,500 army (or thereabouts, without the addition of magical items) which has been made up of an alliance of Goblins, Dwarves and Elves. This has been designed to show off the array of options available to you when you combine different factions together within your campaigns of kingdom building.
In this way, you are encouraged to try and experiment with all sorts of different factions when building your army. Want some alternative cavalry options? Look to the Goblins. Want some deadly archers to support your force? Bring in the help of the Elves. It also starts to tell a story of alliances, be they firm or fragile, between the different factions within your kingdom.
2,500 is around the right points cost for a standard game of Oathmark so, as you can see you only need a few boxes of plastic miniatures and maybe a handful of metal characters to get going properly. Thanks to the options available in the plastic kits you could make a lot of smaller units from one set and then build them up over time.
With this kind of points cost working for a larger clash you can see how maybe one or two boxes of miniatures allows you to play out a smaller engagement around the 500/750 points cost. This is certainly a tantalising teaser and I am very interested to see how things develop when you start throwing monsters and more into the mix!
How big is your Oathmark army so far?
"I am very interested to see how things develop when you start throwing monsters and more into the mix!"
About 300pt in 10mm. Though if I rebased and had fewer figures on each one it could be a lot more
Can anyone remember what the base sizes were?
This is an ideal time for @dignity to get his 10mm dwarves painted
base size is 25x25mm per 28mm figure
Cheers
Certainly an unusual army with dwarfs elfs and goblins fighting together.
One of the game’s USPs is that you create a kingdom and the make-up of the kingdom gives you access to different units. I think I am right in saying it can be a single race or any combination or races you want (though concentrating on one race, or a few, races gives you deeper access to lots of units types for that race).
Personally I’m not sold on having everyone fighting together, but the game allows me to be more traditional so no harm done.
Yes. When you create your kingdom you will be able to add in areas of your realm which give you the option to take particular units/characters/monsters from different factions. These obviously would replace the choices you could have picked from your own faction of choice.
However, there is no reason to do so if you don’t want to. You can just make a force which is entirely made up of one faction if you like.
So far I only have one box of their Goblin/elf and dwarfs. Having said that I have several old armies from WHFB for those as well as undead and more Human armies than you can shake a stick at. I actually like their Goblins better and see more in the future.