Osprey To Take Lion Rampant Fantastical In Dragon Rampant
April 14, 2015 by brennon
Osprey Publishing are going to be taking their Lion Rampant rules, made for Medieval combat, into the realm of fantasy with the announcement from Mersey Books that Dragon Rampant is coming later this year...
The cover art above is just a mock up to show off what the new book could look like but more importantly the announcement came with a whole bunch of information as to what's different in this version of the rules...
- The core rules have stayed much the same as in Lion Rampant
- Retinues now factor in the need for heroic individuals or small bands of warriors to be a focal point of the army
- Rules for magic, flyers, the undead, and other fantasy elements have been added and have a similar complexity to the core rules
- Advice on fitting those models you have into the troop types available in Dragon Rampant - use your whole collection!
- New scenarios have also been written for this version of the rules
It will be interesting to see if this takes off as Lion Rampant has been a well loved rules set at my local store and it would be great to see this expand IF the fantasy element of the rules have been made worthy of a new book.
Do you play Lion Rampant?
"Lion Rampant has been a well loved rules set at my local store and it would be great to see this expand IF the fantasy element of the rules have been made worthy..."
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Very interesting. Currently I’m awaiting the release of WFB 9 with very mixed feelings. If it doesn’t turn out to be something I like, this could be a good alternative, especially with the rules about matching your models to one of the troop types in the rules. I did try Kings of War but it’s a little too basic for my tastes.
I’m all for detailed medieval rules sets being used for fantasy… especially when the rules are realistic enough to compel you to set up and maneuver your army in historical fashion, rather than randomly lining up blocks of figures and simply pushing them toward each other. Why would WFB 9 be any different than its predecessors?
Really great set of rules, am not surprised they are to do fantasy, as I was going to do my own adaptation I’ll hang on and see what they come up with.
Have you played with the system?
It looks to be able to scale for skirmish to medium sized games which would suit me.
Hopefully the rules system will not be too complex.
Yeah really good rules system, its flexible enough for a small army of 40 or so figures right up to a couple of hundred. Really looking forward to what changes and additions they will make for Fantasy games.
Cool
Probably not the fantasy skirmish game I was hoping for but having lots of unused fantasy figures knocking around, and my daughter wanting to paint her Wood Elves, am still very interested.
Looking forward to see how it pans out
Have you tried Song of Blades and Heroes?
Yes @doceon
I noticed that Mersey has written the Arthurian version Songs of Arthur and Merlin(/)
and another look at the Lion Rampart that is shown on the Osprey website has a similar activation system from what I can make out.
I have SoBH on PDF, with a few other Ganesha Games, but iirc it has since been updated and would prefer hardcopy.
Just wondering, if this contains the core rules, it could be used for some more historical games.
And by historical games I mean Robin Hood.
and by Robin Hood I mean the classic 80s show with Herne
Which would have magic.
never mind! lol
Better get sculpting some 28mm RH figures
Raah-bin
the Hooded Man doum dum!
Go Osprey! \m/
The more companies publish good, well balanced “generic rules”, the merrier, IMHO.
Do they have a rule ‘None Shall Pass’? 🙂
They should do a fantasy version for Field of Glory.
Looking forward to this set of rules. Ive had a read through of Lion Rampant and Im looking forward to trying them out. They feel like a very streamlined set of rules.
I’ve got Lion Rampant, and although I haven’t played them yet, I do think they look good. I’m optimistic about this.