"Oathmark as an ancients game" Topic

I was complaining the other night with one of the chaps at the club about the dearth of decent ancients rules. In the chat I promised that I would play any game which was not a DBM clone or used long lists of mods or was played on a grid and was in print. The chap said Oathamrk, so I said, OK.

Has anyone tried using Oathamrk for an Ancients game? How did they find it ?

I would check out youtube as there are a few playthroughs for this system, although not seen any historical game yet. It seems to rely on campaign supplements so not sure how easy it would suit ancients. The basing reminded me of WFB 6th edition. I keep thinking there was a maximum 20 figure unit size?

As a game its perfectly fine.

The game uses a 5 figure frontage with each figure being on a 25mm frontage – cavalry and infanty being on 25mm each. Units are in multiples of 5 to a max of 20 figures. So if you want 48 figure pike blocks the rules won't allow it. As far as I can tell there are no skrimishers or rules for evading

I play Oathmark a lot, and really like it. it's definitely a GAME. that said, I made some custom lists specifically for medieval (in my case) gaming. its a lot of fun. Someone developed a spreadsheet, available through the Oathmark FB group that makes custom list building easy.

There are skirmish rules in one of the newer companion books (I forget which one), but sadly no evade rules….

Whatever you play its just a game- if you think that a game is a simulation than I fear you may be in the wrong hobby

Whatever you play its just a game- if you think that a game is a simulation than I fear you may be in the wrong hobby

I am not sure that is quite right. Yes, it is a game. Yes, it is not a simulation per se. But I think we want to feel like we are engaging history in something analogous to real life events. So specific details matter.

That;s a whole other can of worms so I will say this. These days I just want to play a fun game. Given how little we actually know about the mechanics of how ancient troops fought its hard to be too dogmatic about such things