Oathmark: Beginners Guide - Part 1: What is it and how do you play?
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A glaring gap in the Oathmark library: a comprehensive tutorial video series. I couldn’t imagine anyone better suited! Great intro Chris, I’m very excited to see more 👍😍🙏
Cheers Skipp! Hopefully it can help the game grow, even just a little!
Awesome stuff as usual, Chris! Easily my favorite Oathmark channel.
Cheers mate! I appreciate it!
Nice to see more attention towards Oathmark!
Absolutely! It certainly deserves more attention!
Wow perfect timing! I just bought this game last week and have been watching your narrative campaigns. I would love to mimic it for myself since I play solo primarliy
Nice! Well I hope it helps you out. I'm glad to hear the narrative campaigns have got you keen to give it a go yourself!
Excellent Video! Thank you for making it.
Cheers Chase, I hope it helps out!
You are doing soooo much for the visibility of this game.
Your channel has the best Oathmark videos.
Cheers mate! Thanks for the kind words!
It's a thoroughly enjoyable game!
Thanks, my wargaming group was just talking about giving this a try, so this really helps!
No worries! I hope you and your group enjoy it!
Excellent run through of the game many thanks look forward to more of your battle reports
Cheers Darrin. More to come!
Fantastic video on a fantastic game Chris, keep it up
Cheers Kevin! Thanks very much.
I really like this game system a lot! Nice and simple without all the confusing special rules other game systems have. Is there any chance you will start a narrative campaign focused on your orcs any time soon? :)
It's a really good game!
I'd like to do one at some stage, though can't promise when. I'd need to get way more Orcs painted 😅
Great video sir!
Cheers mate! I hope it was helpful.
Love your work good sir!!! Keep it up, you're definitely one of my favorite creators!
Cheers mate! I really appreciate it!
nice work Chris, they need to start sponsoring u haha
Ha! That'd be cool.
I've been interested in checking out this game but never got around to it. This really did spark the desire to pick up the book though, so thank you!
No worries, I'm glad to hear it! I hope you enjoy the game.
Really helpful video, I am interested in starting Oathmark and this was a great introduction
That's great to hear! Cheers mate!
Awesome video
Cheers mate, I hope it helped out!
No matter how many times a see explanation videos for this game not once has anyone explained what
A M F S D CD H Pts means it's obvious Pts is how many points a unit costs but the other letters are completely, different from other games i have played
Yeah, that's a fair point.
All of the stats are mentioned in context in the video, but you're right, I did not take time to explain what each of them are.
So here you go:
A - Activation. A measure of discipline and morale. The score required to activate a unit and the base level for morale tests. The lower the better.
M - Move. How far a figure can move, in inches.
F - Fight. A measure of offensive ability in hand to hand combat.
S - Shoot. A measure of offensive ability with a ranged weapon.
D - Defense. A measure of how hard a model is to kill. A combination of armour and general hardiness.
CD - Combat Dice. How many dice the model rolls when in combat or shooting.
H - Health. How many hits a model can take before it is removed from play.
Pts - Points. The value of the unit for army building or scoring.
I hope that helps!
Great stuff as always!
Cheers Lamont, hopefully it helps some newer peeps out!
Hope you had a great chrimbo and happy new year dude.
Cheers Ross, same to you mate!
Great video! So great that I just bought for 100 euros of Oathmark stuff (rule book included) I'm so weak...the game better be good, there is no turning back now! ^^'
Oh dear! :D
Cheers Henri, I do hope you enjoy your time with the game!
@@AshandStoneNZ thanks, and yes, now that i finally tried it, the game is great! Thanks again for your review, it really helped.
@user-vm1dn5en2n That's awesome! I'm really pleased to hear it! What sort of army are you playing with?
@@AshandStoneNZ well i'm playing undead, I focus on them for the moment (just been playing them for less than 2 weeks now) before i add some orks to them, but i'm also building an elf-human army, and basically I just use the north star miniatures because I like there vanilla fantasy/tolkien vib! I got a friend into it as well, his playing humans and on septembre we will be starting a real campaign. So for now i'm just getting along with the rules and how to play the undead and trying not to have my necromancer killed in turn three (yes i have mainly skeltons soldiers for the moment) x)
Nice one! Putting a couple of armies together will keep you busy!
Yeah the North Star minis are fantastic. Not only do they nicely capture the fantasy essence, they are easy to paint too!
I hope you guys have a blast!
Best fantasy game out there! been playing it since it came out. i just had a 10000 points per side game last night and it was heck of fun!
Yeah mate, I saw your photos on the Facebook page! Epic stuff!
Hey Chris, I just finished watching your Oathmark videos and you have sold me on the system. My copy arrived today and now my collection of Joseph McCullough game systems is complete! Having looked through the rulebook, I would like to check that my understanding re: champions is correct. You mention that to determine the number of combat dice, you pick a model in the unit (not including a character) and multiply the CD stat of that model by the number of models in the front rank, capping the result at 5. If there is a champion in that front rank, one of the 5 dice being rolled will be a champion dice.
So does that really mean that if the unit with a champion is down to two models, they still only roll two combat dice even though the champion might have a CD stat of 3?
If my understanding is correct, I suppose that when you get down to three models in a unit, you might as well switch to having the champion fight alone so that they can roll using their own CD and fight stat?
Hey mate, that's awesome! It's a great game so I hope you really enjoy playing!
Yes, you are exactly correct.
Once your down to 3 models, or are fighting to the flank or rear with three ranks or less, you should always be fighting alone with your Champion. When your character is fighting alone, you use their Defence value as well, but incoming damage goes on to the unit first. So with better offence, probably better defence, and the same amount of health, there's really no downside to doing it.
The tougher choice is when you're down to five models. Do you roll five dice, including the Champion, at Fight 2, or do you roll three, including the Champion die, at Fight 4?
@@AshandStoneNZ Got you, and thanks for the fast reply! At first I was surprised at how 'little' impact characters in a unit have on combat, but I suppose that the mechanics of the champion dice, that could yield 2-3 hits, makes up for the fact that you aren't getting to roll all 3 of their combat dice except in the scenarios you mentioned above.
I guess I need to buy some characters for my army, then!
No worries! Yeah, characters aren't world beaters in Oathmark, but they can still have quite a large effect on the battle, it just tends to be more subtle.
Add a Champion to a unit of Skeletons or Goblins, and suddenly a weaker unit becomes quite a threat, let alone adding one to a unit of Heavy Cavalry or Linebreakers.
A Captain makes your flighty Goblins steady and your Elves incredibly reliable. Then you get to activate more than one unit at a time, which can be absolutely huge.
And while Spellcasters won't be laying waste to units alone, they allow you to shift the odds in your favour, subtly changing the battlefield. A well timed Shift or a cheeky Fireball that knocks off a rank bonus can have dramatic effects.
In the video the viewer can hear white noise. I expect that you recorded the video infront of a computer that has cooling fans running. The noise is on the narration track, as when you cut between narrative clips it briefly goes slient. Take your narration files. Load them into audacity (or equivalent). Effect > Noise Removal and Repair > Noise Reduction. Hopefully that helps.
Cheers mate, I appreciate it!
It gets a noise reduction pass through Resolve, but clearly that's not enough. Thanks heaps for the feedback!
What are those puzzle tiles you're using as a game surface? Do you have a tutorial or other resource on how to make those?
They are foam floor tiles. I actually have two videos on them now.
The first is getting a little long in the tooth, but covers the overview and how I made the roads: czcams.com/video/TCcxZPk-Dp4/video.html
And the second uses more up to date materials for the ground work and covers water: czcams.com/video/TSxhJj-Hr64/video.html
Thanks!
No worries mate!
Will you be doing an advanced rules video?
I'd certainly like to!
Good video. I should do some too
Cheers mate! Play Oathmark? Make videos? or both? Either way you should!
Do some Oathmark videos. But as you can tell from the videos I do make, they're a bit "rough" 🤣
Do it! We've all got to start somewhere! My earlier videos certainly have me cringing. 😂