10mm Fantasy
So Oathmark... (and KoW)
TMy last bit of procrastination is a look at Oathmark…
I picked this up as part of my desire to own as many rulebooks as possible. Looks interesting and gave me an added incentive to look at my 28mm Kow Dwarves…
Ok, so lets group these together as the concept is the same. The origin of the Dwarf and gobbo models was to play KoW in 10mm.
The first thought was to simply half the base areas and go for that. This would require bases 50x40mm for regiments. For large Inf or Cav this would be 65x25mm for troops.
However, I happened to own quite a few 40x30m bases which is 40% of the “regulation” sizes (ok the depth should be 32mm but aint nobody got time for that!). This makes Large inf/Cav being a 50x20mm which is lucky as I happened to have a few spare.
What I will state is that these will not be true model counts. The reason for this is often the models are not designed to be ranked up in the same “regimented” fashion. I think alot of these ranges will have been orignially aimed at the Hordes and Heroes rulesets where people were a littly free-er – I mean in KoW you are allowed to be fairly relaxed about it anyway if you choose to but I felt it was worth to mention.
So since I bought the models I have not done alot with the idea. I blue tacked some units on the bases using the 50mm frontage idea for a couple of games and it worked fine.
So looking at Oathmark, the Frontages for the “recommended” scale would be 125mm, which gives a c60mm fromtage at half sizes. It just so happened that the infantry washers I have been using are 12mm in diameter and as we all know 5 (being the width of Oathmark units in models) x 12mm = 60mm, so models I do for this (provided they are either human, dwarf, green skin or elf will do!
The fly in the ointment is Cav. I can only fit 3 models to a base with these guys so either I source some steel rectangle bases, or I use tiny dice on the base to so the 4th and 5th lads. Not ideal but does save mixing base types up.
so I have cut up some magnet paper into the required sizes, and from somewhere found some thicker mount board or something similar for support. I would be more specific but it is a random piece I squirrelled away for such an opportunity.
And so finally some pics. I have used some of the undead as stand ins for the time being but the principal is the same.
Right… no more dilydallying… time to go back to painting… tomorrow, I promise…
When it comes to depth of base I could live with them being 31mm but 32?. I think that’s pushing it
Well it is what the maths says it should be but what’s a couple of mm between friends!
interesting, if I mention you have your base depth wrong for a regiment does that throw everything off? I assume not as you’ll be making the forces to match anyway.
For KoW or Oathmark? Or both? I am happy for any advice or feedback. I am currently very sleep deprived with a 3 month old at mo so I would not be surprised if i’d Cocked up somewhere. I might also have my terminology incorrect. To confirm: For KoW, a 20 model unit foot print is 100x80mm, at 40% I make that 40x32mm which I have taken that as 40×30. For Oathmark, a 10 model unit is 120x50mm at 50% is 62.5x25mm. I have rounded this down 60×24/5mm depending on how accurate my cutting is… I am using the 10… Read more »
Kings, but you’re grand based on most of your working out, it was the initial size above you listed an infantry regiment at half size as 50 x 20 instead of 50 x 40. I just didn’t want you over compensating based off that faulty premise.
My guess is that was a mistype since the rest of your scaling makes sense 🙂
Whoops, sorry, you are right it was a mistype! I’ll amend the text.
Thanks for the spot. ?
A few of us at our gaming club have been working on 10mm Oathmark o we the lockdowns. We just convert everything from inches to centimetres – 1 to 1.
So the board only needs to be 50cm x 50cm, the models go on 10mm bases instead of 25mm. Loads of terrain out there for 10mm scale. Loads of appropriate figures. Saves a lot of space and money. (Most 10mm figures work out around 25p each.)
We either use 10mm square bases or 50mmx10mm strips and use a dice marker to track wounds per stand.