If you have ever wanted to march a self-built fantasy army across the tabletop and watch a kingdom rise or crumble from battle to battle, Oathmark has been quietly doing exactly that for years. Now Osprey Games is giving its mass-battle wargame a full second edition, and it brings the dead back with it.
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Find events near youOathmark: Second Edition comes from Joseph A. McCullough, the designer behind Osprey's popular skirmish games Frostgrave and Stargrave. The pitch is army-building without the fixed faction lists: you assemble whatever force you fancy from dwarves, elves, humans and goblins, then take it through an integrated campaign where you expand your realm, recruit new troops and risk losing hard-won territory when a battle goes badly.
The new edition is billed as a revised and expanded take built on years of player feedback, with reworked rules and unit types throughout. The headline additions are full rules for Undead armies, so you can raise the fallen and field them, along with new rules for chariots and for Legendary Heroes to anchor your battle line. It runs to 224 pages in hardback, so this is a rulebook to build your own armies around rather than a boxed game with miniatures inside.
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Set up your group for freeOathmark: Second Edition reaches UK shops on 27 August 2026 at £25 ($35 in the US), with pre-orders open now on the Osprey site. Whether you are returning from the first edition or fancy your first crack at building a realm, it is a tidy entry point, and if you need someone to push toy soldiers against, a local wargaming group is a good place to start.
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