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As a kid, I would spend hours planning army lists for Warhammer Fantasy Battle. I particularly loved the Warhammer Armies, 3rd edition book because it contained the lists for all the races in the game. I would never have the money to make most of lists but that was not the point. I loved making army lists. When I picked up the Oathmark book, I turned straight to the army section and started looking at the troops that could be taken and how to build an army. I am hoping this can be my new Warhammer Fantasy Battle ( Oathmark - is this my new fantasy Battle game? ) In the game there are effectively two ways to build an army: choose troops from a single terrain list, or build a kingdom , which allows certain troops to be taken. In theory, you could ignore these rules and just take which ever troops you like to a certain points limit and just have at it. For this article, I am going to look at the two main options.  The single terrain list  In many ways, the Oathmark game has been built to

  When I first started playing miniature games way back in 1989, I started with Warhammer Fantasy Battle: 3rd Edition. I initially tried to make a dwarf army, but the cost of the metal miniatures was more than the young teenage me could manage. I then settled on the Undead because I could get a whole plastic army in a single box! So, for the next six editions of the game I used the Undead. Along the way I also tried lots of other armies most notably the Empire and the Ogre Kingdoms. Eventually, the Old World gave way to the Age of Sigmar. I have collected armies for the Age of Sigmar (AOS), but I miss the blocks of infantry and cavalry that Warhammer Fantasy Battle (WFB) had. Additionally, I have my old armies sitting in their cases in the loft, and at present unlikely to see the light of day again.  Then, the other day I stumbled across Oathmark, a mass-battle fantasy wargame, published by Osprey Games. This game uses the classic fantasy races of Orcs and Goblins, Elves, Dwarves, Huma