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Oathmark

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As if I needed yet another game to delve into…

Description, per Osprey Games’ website:
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Empires have fallen, and the land is broken. The great oathmarks that once stood as testaments to the allegiances and might of nations have crumbled into ruin. In this lost age, fealty and loyalty are as valuable as gold and as deadly as cold iron, and war is ever-present

Oathmark: Second Edition is a revised and expanded version of the popular mass-battle fantasy wargame, Oathmark. Featuring new and expanded rules, units types, and a whole host of other revisions from years of player feedback. Command the fantasy army you’ve always wanted in Oathmark: Second Edition, whether a company of stalwart dwarves or a mixed force with proud elves, noble men, and wild goblins standing shoulder-to-shoulder in the battle-line.

Fight through an integrated campaign system and develop your realms from battle to battle, adding new territories, recruiting new troop types, and growing to eclipse your rivals…

…or lose what you fought so hard to gain and fall as so many would-be emperors before you.
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So this game is interesting in that you create a kingdom from scratch, and depending on how you build/lay out your kingdom, you’ll have access to different fighting units, from militia and swordsmen all the way up to creatures like ogres and dragons.  You’ll also have champions, leaders, and sorcerors to aid in your battles, and depending on how your forces do, your kingdom will rise and fall, grow or shrink.

Initially I was just gonna make an orc army (naturally) but then decided to pick up a box of humans, either to fight the orcs…

… or maybe ally with them?

I dunno.  This will probably be something I play solo anyways, so I can create whatever I want.

I did order some leader-type miniatures as well as the orc and human Infantry boxes, and I also 3D printed a second set of swordsmen for the humans, and I may do the same for the orcs.  The game is miniatures agnostic, so I’d like to go with 3D printing for anything beyond the base army boxes I got (30 minis each).  I kept looking for 3D figures in my files for leader types, but just went with the metal minis available for sale online.

I have a queen/wizard/musician set coming in for the humans, and a king/wizard/musician set coming in for the orcs.

Funny thing is that while miniatures exist for the musicians and standard bearers, they have no significant qualities or skills in the game itself.

So my human kingdom will be led by a queen (unamed for now) who will lead her army into battle, while King Bob the Orc will lead the orc forces.

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“Miniatures Agnositc”

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This has started to be one of my favorite phrases in a description of any tabletop miniatures game.

As I start to play games like Frostgrave and Rangers of Shadow Deep, I find myself looking at my old D&D/RPG miniatures to fill in for some of the character models I need for the games.

An unused rogue mini will be a thief in my Frostgrave warband.

One of my paladin minis will be the champion in another warband.

And I’m sure I’ll find a purpose for many others of these miniatures.

Meanwhile, instead of scrambling to find enough creatures for a given scenario in some of these games, I came up with this simple solution.

I’m printing a dozen of these guys to proxy *any* creature that my warbands come across.  Some of the scenarios call for 5 of a certain type when all I have is 2, so the generic green SFX guys will fill in for the missing creatures.

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This Is The Way

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“I swear on my name and the names of the ancestors… That I shall walk the Way of the Mand’alor… And the words of the Creed shall be forever forged in my heart. This is the Way.“

The real reason I’m getting back into Star Wars Legion?

Along with choosing from 4 clans (Clan Wren, Clan Kryze, Deathwatch/Super Commandos, Children of the Watch) there’s an option where you can create YOUR OWN CLAN.

Clan Pepsi and the Pepsimandalorians will live!

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31 Days of RPG Characters

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I went and did the 31 Days of RPG Characters challenge and posted the results on Facebook.

The question now is, what do I do with them?

And what about the other systems where I *didn’t* create characters, there were so many?

Hopefully I’ll find time to revisit a few of these characters over time.

For now I just want to get something to the table for a session or two, RPG, wargame, skirmish, or sports.

This challenge took me away from that, though I did have fun doing it.

Let’s see what pulls at me the most over the next few days.

Don’t touch that dial!

Upcoming and Incoming

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I seriously think I have too many options for gaming, resulting in executive indecision.

I’m reading up on that and may ask my doctor about it during my next annual visit.

In the meantime, I hope to finally get around to playing something more consistently in the next few weeks.

I’ve neglected all of the solo RPGs as I’ve been hopping around reading up different systems, when I should just focus on continuing the adventures of the Excalibur.

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Meanwhile, I’ve been preparing for a couple of games that should be arriving in the next month or so, both from Firelock Games.

Oak and Iron is a tabletop naval game in the age of sail.  They have a second edition coming out soon, so I decided to pick this one up since I finally watched Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.  Ships are in 1:600 scale, and I found a few on MyMiniFactory that I’d like to have included in my games, including the HMS Surprise from the aforementioned M&C movie, and the USS Enterprise , from the late 18th century.

The core set comes with 6 smaller ships, but I did pick up a couple of expansions which contain much larger ships, including 1st/2nd/3rd rate Ships of the Line.

There was a Kickstarter for this last summer, which I backed.

This is basically a smaller scale skirmish version of Blood and Plunder from Firelock, based in the Jamaican city of Port Royal after the earthquake in 1692.

The miniature count for squads average about 6 models, and while I already have models for English, Spanish, Native Americans, and pirates, the core set contains15 models that will represent the French, and I included an add-on of the new Native American set with multi-pose plastic models that I will build as a Maroon (escaped African slaves) faction.

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And of course, I have my sports games to play, but that’s another story.

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Go Ahead Punk!

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Talk about timing:

I recently rewatched the original Dirty Harry a week or so ago, and then this arrived at the office.

It’s for a game called Go Ahead Punk! and is of course based on the Dirty Harry movie.

The game itself hasn’t arrived yet, but I’m looking forward to playing it on this cool play mat.

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2024 Goals

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While I didn’t get around to Star Fleet Battles by the end of 2023, it’s on the list for 2024.

I hope to play a tabletop game a week.

That is all.

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Upcoming: August 20 – 26

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Like I did with my Sports Gaming Blog, I hope this list will act as a prompt for my other gaming.

Paint miniatures for Cyberpunk Red Combat Zone
Paint miniatures for Star Trek Adventures
Setup Star Trek Adventures Captains Log RPG: TOS Era Captain
Setup new crew for Five Parsecs From Home

That should be plenty for the week,

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