As you prepare to play Oathmark: Battles of the Lost Age, you may be wondering what you need to play the game. Here's an extract from the book looking at what is required in a little more detail.
Apart from the book, you need several other items to play Oathmark: miniatures, a table, terrain, dice, some sort of measuring device, and copies of the Kingdom Sheet and Army Sheet from the back of this book. Each of these items is discussed in detail below.
Miniatures are the key elements of the tabletop wargaming hobby. Essentially, miniatures are toy soldiers, sculpted to a high level of detail and cast in either metal or plastic.
Each miniature in Oathmark represents one man (or elf, goblin, troll, etc.), and is usually referred to as a figure. Most figures are grouped together with other similar figures into blocks called units. All figures and units under a single player’s command are known as an army. This is explained in more detail later.
To play to the game, each player needs their own army with a minimum of about 30 figures, the number that comes in one box of plastic Oathmark Dwarf, Goblin, Elf, or Human Infantry. After playing a couple games at this basic level, however, most players decide to expand their armies to contain numerous different units with varying strengths and abilities. That’s fine; the Oathmark rules work just as well for armies of 300 figures as they do for armies of 30.
It is worth noting that all Oathmark miniatures come unpainted and, in the case of plastic figures, unassembled. So, if you are just starting out, you may also want to invest in some glue, paints, paintbrushes, and other such hobby tools.
A Note on Base Size
Every Oathmarkfigure comes with a plastic base; in the case of human-sized models, this is a 25 x 25mm square. Larger figures may have larger bases. It is important to mount your figures on the appropriate-sized base, as this represents how much area that figure takes up and controls on the battlefield and affects how the figure moves and fights, especially when it is part of a unit. The base size of every creature in this book is listed in its description.
