The sculptor of these figures, Michael Anderson, actually built and painted his own miniatures. They look really good. Let’s take a look at what he did with them. A small Oathmark skeleton infantry group. The skeletons as archers. Skeleton Warriors with a mix of hand weapons and spears. A close up of a great looking skeleton guard. Special Figures Disclaimer: Wargames Atlantic sent me a copy of these miniatures for review. As a note, I also reviewed these on YouTube and there is an imbedded video at the end for those interested in watching my thorough review. The Box Art These add to an already extended range of Oathmark plastic kits, covering Elves, Dwarfs, Greenskins and Humans. And are out there on the market, along with a few other undeads made from plastic in 28mm:

These seems to be confirmed by fresh news on Wargameterrain: "We will have a regular release schedule for plastic Oathmark figures this year, including: Human Cavalry, Dwarf Light Infantry, Revenants, Orcs and Goblin Lt Infantry." At 25 GBP you pay a bit less than a pound per miniature. So these are both great for skirmishers, either a warband of their own or to boost your NPC/monster pool, but work very well as a regiment builder. With the Revenants box, North Star added an elite option to their undead range, and I assume we can expect cavalry in the future as well (which would be a big plus, as plastic skeleton horses are hard to come by).There is some math to determine to “hit target” numbers and the points for your army, but nothing that would be a deal breaker for me. Oathmark comes with the right amount of tension for a combat game and the heroes do not seem overpowered. It will be interesting to see how the planned expansions effect the system. I, for one, am looking forward to collecting more Oathmark books and models. In direct comparison, this kit is among the cheapest options for plastic skeletons. Games Workshop's recently released Deathrattle Skeletons sit at 1,82 GBP per miniatur, Mantic at 1,12 GBP, Wargames Atlantic at 0,81 GBP, former Wargames Factory now Warlord Games at 0,83 GBP and Oathmark at 0,83 GBP as well. And with 30 miniatures per set among the ones with the most miniatures as well. So far we've seen some options for these skeletons with bows and also hand weapons and shields. So, you've got the options present within the set to make the rank and file you need in your games when building a mass battle force. Some of you who follow me know that from time to time I show the work of Codex d’Araden. This guy loves kit bashing everything and is well worth following on Facebook if you like seeing unique minis. Today he let me share a few of his images with you to show how these skeletons look when kitbashed. One of the images will also give you a sense of how the minis scale up to the skeletons by Warlord Games for Warlords of Erehwon. A group of minis by Codex d’Araden. On the outer sides are skeletons by Warlord games. In the center, miniatures by Wargames Atlantic but with Warlords of Erehwon heads. Here he added a cape to the Wargames Atlantic miniature and used a different shield to indicate that he is a leader. This pictures gives a good sense of scale between the Skeleton miniatures by Wargames Atlantic and Warlord Games. The one by Wargames Atlantic is in the middle. Because the Wargames Atlantic figures have bigger heads and body parts than the Warlord products, he used them to depict the leaders in his forces. The capes come from another models set, but he is not sure which. The large mini in the middle is a Sigmarine from Age of Sigmar modified to be an Undead Lord.

Advanced rules in Oathmark mostly include rules for characters. We are talking about Commanders, Spellcasters and Champions. When you sport a character, you can choose to fight with the entire group that the hero is in, or with the hero alone. When you go with the hero alone, you get to use the hero’s statistics and the models in the unit essentially become his (or her) hit points. Unlike other games, heroes are not super powerful. While you might choose to fight with your hero alone, there will be plenty of times that you will be better off using the fight stats of the unit they are in instead of fighting individually. Since I am having fun with this post, I want to share some more images of the Wargames Atlantic Skeleton Warriors. Here you can see how the miniatures look individually. This guy I used for the title image turned out great! A Skeleton Archer. I love the way these skeleton warriors turned out. They look great with the large shields.Below is a scale comparison image of the Wargames Atlantic Skeleton Warriors to other brands. You can see that they size up big compared to lines like Frostgrave, but are still shorter than 32mm figures. Left to right… Reaper Miniatures (32mm), Wargames Atlantic, DGS Games (32mm), Wargames Atlantic, Frostgrave (28mm – small side), Wargames Atlantic, Frostgrave (28mm – small side), Oathmark (28mm – small side). Some more Skeletons Siege rules(I wrote a postabout it, but planning another one, because I started to write my home-brew siege rules) Oathbreakers has s urprisingly nothing, not even the box art of the already available Skeleton Infantry... Faction of Demons (Im not in love with them, but a lot of players could be attracted to Oathmark with it, and I think thatOathmark could be real successorof WHFB, but only if every former player finds a place for his army...)

The miniatures here match up quite nicely to the artwork that we saw on the cover of Oathbreakers and have that awesome shambling quality to them from classic Fantasy. It works very well with the Tolkienesque elements of Fantasy that Oathmark was woven into his aesthetic through their releases. You might be able to get some use out of some 1/72 scale Napoleonic or American Civil War artillary, which would be small for 28mm human characters, but right at home with a Persianized halfling artillary team. Redbox makes a 1/72 16th-17th century Ottoman artillary set that should include some great guns, and the halfling-high figures might be a bit slender compared to halflings, but might include some great accessories to equip your halfling artillarists with.I found the activation method in this game less frustrating than Dragon Rampant. You roll against your Activation number. If you pass, you can perform your full action (two actions). If you fail, you can still do a partial action. In Dragon Rampant, you don’t get to go at all and you lose your turn.

In that respect the book provides a wide range of Kingdom Events to be rolled for after each battle. Be they harmful or beneficial, these Events influence your kingdom and the armies and abilities with which you can fight your next battle. Think failed coups, horse shortages and plagues. Rolling for these events may sound a bit clinical but they actually offer great opportunities for an ongoing narrative. Ah thats a shame about Neverboard, I wondered why they hadn't been posting up on facebook recently. I only used them occasionally though. I also find the miniatures visually appealing and like that they are chunky. They don’t feel delicate to me. Criticisms of the miniatures With this comment out of the way, I want to say that the artwork is awesome and I found very few other errors. A small thing here and there, but not much else. So what caught me with the Oathmark ones? First of all, they are generic and can be used widely, not overdrawn like the Mantic ones, not the Harryhausens like Wargames Factory or Atlantic ones, and not 32mm+ as the most recent Games Workshop iteration.

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Also new sets for the future include Orc Line breakers, Human Militia/ rangers, Human Heavy cavalry, and the possibility of war machines, and a new dragon. A video review of Wargames Atlantic’s 28mm Plastic Skeleton Warriors Miniatures. This video contains over 70 images and is well worth a watch. In this post you will see the plastic sprues of the miniatures, some completed (and painted) figures, plus the Champions and Characters available to the army. Now that you have seen what I did with just the contents of the box, let’s look how how Codex d’Araden combined them with other products to make some unique minis. Kitbashing by Codex d’Araden