Oathmark on the horizon
It's recently been announced that a new edition of Oathmark will be released this August, and I'm keen to build an army or two for it. Unless the rules change drastically (which I very much doubt) it should be a great way to make a dent in my pile of unainted plastic and metal fantasy miniatures. Oathmark allows you to create imaginary nations with different races living alongside each other, and it gives you the option therefore to field armies with a real variety of stuff on the table. This is perfect for me, since I have a few boxes each of dwarfs, elves, undead, humans, orcs, ratmen, ogres and goblins.
I envisage a country called Moonstone. This arises from two practicalities: I want to use black as the main colour for reasons of speed and simplicity, and I have lots of the Stormcast Eternal white crescent moon transfers.
A moon on a dark field can be ethereal and shadowy, but it can also connote darkness and death. I'd like my nation to be based on magic-worship, with moral uncertainty and obscure aims.
Here are a selection of minis that I had to hand that I've painted up to test the concept. I think I may have gone a little overboard on the stars on the elf shields.
What I don't have at the moment are any orcs, ogres or goblins. Maybe I could leave those out of this army, and perhaps have an enemy army of greenskins to fight against later. If I stick to rigid fantasy tropes it makes sense that 'civilised' races might ally together and even tolerate the work of necromancers in order to repel a green horde, but I'm not averse to overturning those tropes if I have an idea that merits it.
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