Campaign Quest : Oathmark is Great on Paper, Dull on the Table
Testing tabletop systems to find the perfect engine for a long term narrative war. I picked up Oathmark: Battles of the Lost Age a few years ago as an alternative to Warhammer Fantasy . It has a ton of positive reviews on the interweb and seemed like a great option for someone wanting to get into rank and flank gaming while providing enough options to build a fantasy kingdom without the usual restrictions. For those unaware, one of the main selling points of Oathmark is the option to build your own army made up of different races. You can create a human kingdom with goblins living right alongside them or whatever you want to do. Unfortunately you are limited to only a couple of regular fantasy races but you can swap in your own race of choice into the existing ones and play away. In this game my wife was playing with her Nurgle army and we used the human profiles for them. Anyway, jump forward about two years, and I finally got around to playing it. I had just recently finished ...
