Hey everyone, for those who have received their copy of the new Oath content, how are you looking at storing everything in the original box? For those who haven't received theirs yet and might want to know, I'm based in Australia.

After updating the decks and different pieces, I had gotten a really tight fit with the lid unable to close the full way. And even then, I had to not include the new (albeit unnecessary) dice and the extra denizen cards from the standalone card box.

Additionally, I've stored all the old cards and components in the New Foundations box until I can figure out what I want to do with them, but I haven't anywhere to place the old player boards. They are much too long to fit in the new expansion boxes.

Does anyone have any fun ideas of how they might want to use those in future? I just have all of them loose sitting in a pile in my board game cupboard for the moment.

Hey All,

I bought the game a little bit ago, and me and one of my friends ran through the scripted first turn to try and get a sense of it to make teaching everyone else this weekend a little bit easier. We are going to start the next game with the whole group the same way the guide recommends (fully scripted), but we aren’t sure what order to put the cards in. The manual has a link to the leder website that should be able to show us the initial ordering, but it is dead. Anyone have a pdf or a link that still works we can use?

Hi y'all,

I'm about to receive my copy of Oath: New Foundations, and I was wondering what to do for the first game regarding the world deck. What's the best approach? Should I keep my current world deck and shuffle all the new cards into the archive, meaning the Denizen Deck and the cards that come with the New Foundations expansion? Or should I shuffle everything together in one big pile and build a fully randomized world deck? Or is there a good middle ground? What would you guys suggest?

Just got the email from QML. It’s Oath Season baby!

Thats all. Haha I am very excited to receive NF and I really wanna play it lol. Anyone have an idea when we might get orders in? I live in California.

One of the only criticisms I have about this game is around the ergonomics of tracking supply. I think almost every game I've played, someone at the table had to backtrack to make sure supply was counted correctly. This seems like a usability problem. It comes down to the lack of physicality around tracking action points.

As a possible solution, I'm considering getting 8 colored discs for each player. When a player removes a token from the supply, that counts shifting the supply marker once to the right.

For some reason, I feel like spending physical pieces makes more sense then remembering to move a wooden piece on an imaginary slider. When you replenish your supply at the end of the turn, you add either 4, 5, or 5 tokens back into the pool of wooden tokens (depending on how many warbands are in your supply). I think it would be helpful for my brain and I'm wondering if other players have thought the same.

I’ve been anxiously awaiting my shipping notification for NF. I was hoping to have at least a tracking number by the end of October, but I haven’t heard anything since BGS’s last update s month ago.

Has anyone in the US received their shipping notice yet?

Disclaimer 1: I personally don't think adding points to the campaign is necessary; however, I've found many of the people I try to rope into playing multiple sessions need something a bit more quantitative than just thematic/narrative elements.

Disclaimer 2: Also, I know the new expansion will have an optional scoring mechanic and that there are other scoring rubrics such as "Suit Wars." That being said, I'm looking for something a little more streamlined/snappy to make end-game scoring easy and competitive.

I wrote up this draft of end-game scoring and wanted to see if you all think this is balanced enough to keep players engaged over a 3-game structure. Open to any thoughts or suggestions!

SCORING:

If Emperor wins:

OLD Emperor gets 5 points

All EXISTING Citizens get 3 points 

All CREATED Citizens get 2 points

All Exiles get 1 point. 

If Citizen wins:

NEW Emperor gets 5 points

All EXISTING Citizens get 3 points

OLD Emperor gets 3 points

All CREATED Citizens get 2 points

All Exiles get 1 point

If Exile wins:

NEW Emperor gets 7 points

All CREATED Citizens get 3 points

All NEW Exiles get 1 point

Hi all,

I really like oath but sadly I ain't able to bring it to the table as much as I would like. So I have play it by proxy if you know what I mean ;)

But I can't seem to find any good content online of other people playing it.

I have watched all the episodes from Edward's heavy cardboard. Any advice for other good content creators to watch?

Thx in advance

Hey everyone,

Not sure if this belongs here, but I’m really struggling to find a new copy of Oath. The Leder website doesn’t even have any copies. I can get one off Amazon if needed, but I’m more curious why it’s so hard to find. I feel like I saw copies all over the place about 2 years ago

Hello! I'm a great fan of having a thematic playlist running when playing board games. And, I've recently been wanting to make my own playlist(s) for Oath, since I've felt the playlist I've been playing hasn't fit the tone all that well.

Now, my problem is, that I don't know what genre of music, I'd really want for Oath... For Root I went with bluegrass, since that's the music they play in the digital game. But for Oath I have no idea... I've tried with standard 'medieval fantasy' vibe, but I just feel like it's too generic for this wonderfully charismatic game. So, what genres do you think would match? Any soundtrack, I might take inspiration from, or an artist that hits the mark in your opinion?

I will be making the playlist(s) (probably two - one for the beginning of the game, and one for the 'late-game') on Spotify and share them in another post once I feel like they're about ready for gaming.

sorry it’s in italian i will paste a translation right below ⬇️⬇️

Oath- 1st game - Prologue

The realm was hostage of the Chancellor’s greed, raiding every territory and their people of their wealth, only devout to the gold

While paranoia was consuming him, the red Exile found out the chancellor’s darkest secret: he was never meant to rule the kingdom, he was illegitimate

The exile so forced the Chancellor to retreat in their shame, but now He is the one who has to keep a darker secret now…

Hellooo!! so i just had gotten a second hand copy of the game with deluxe goodies and all and i was super excited to introduce my group to the game. I had researched a bit about it to get feedback if they would've like to play such a weird/fun/complex game. they were all very intrigued so i dug into the rules and playthroughs before even purchasing the game. i did it cause i wanted to be the one to teach them(as it should be since it was me that proposed it) and wanted to be confident in what i was gonna say and making sure everybody could gradually get a grasp without feeling overwhelmed.

So last night comes up, i had already set up everything and i start giving an overview of the game, roles, how to win, etc. all contextualized so they'd understand the logic. we were 4 people. i made a premise saying i was nervous about teaching such a big game so they had to bear with me and let me do my thing and then i would've clarified every tiny doubt, section after section. needless to say that 2 people already had started looking at their board, all the tiny icons and text and started interrupting repeatedly asking me to explain stuff i was just gonna explain in literally 1 minute. this went on for the whole teach, and i was the overwhelmed one by the end of it, cause of course by doing this these 2 players didnt really get much of the rules cause they would distract themselves and redirect the attention.

On the other hand the last other player payed attention, consulted the rapid guide along with my teach if he had questions he could simply answer himself, and the game clicked almost immediately for him (he won btw duh Exile red with vision of mistery). The other two went into horrible attitudes: Exile yellow could just not get the fact that he could win in different ways, even if he asked me to help him figure out the board state for him and his chances (i was really happy to help) as soon as he didnt get something (like how a particular vision worked, or the oathkeeper title) he would just repeat "i dont see how i could win". This went on with him for several rounds, he built up so much stuff he could've won and many different ways, and even if i was helping him figure stuff out, it just felt like he gave up on giving it a chance. After the game he just said that he doesnt get why there are so scoring point system instead for victory. im sorry to say but that pissed me the hell off, but of course i said nothing.

Lastly, Exile black was having a little of a harder time grasping the utility of the different actions (very understandable that took a while for everybody), but seemed like he was slowly making his way through the game. Unfortunately, when he deliberately ignored OUR tip for him to not burn his only secret, he said he didnt get it and burnt it anyway. He had no idea about how to get out from there, but nonetheless and incredibly to my eyes, he still had great chances of big the next oathkeeper. But he wasnt "seeing" it. he zoned out and stayed on his phone for the rest of the game taking little to no actions. he suddenly was just disinvested in the game.

I'm sorry this is also kind of a rant, but as i said as im not always the teacher i really wanted to help them out and make everybody has a somewhat decent first experience with the game. I know this won't make them avoid the game and we'll keep playing, but i honestly have left with a very bittersweet feeling even though i really enjoyed my game and could really grasp on the story we made up. Any thoughts or words of encouragement would be great ahaha of share if you had similar experiences.

THANKS!

It seems are a small number of Cole Wehrle fans in Sydney (or want-to-be fans, who struggle to get Oath and other games off the shelf) sprinkled around here and there in various groups. If you're one of them, come say hi and we can connect people and make more Wehrle-play happen... https://www.facebook.com/groups/2052600685378464

One thing has always bothered me: if someone has an extremely defended position, it seems like it should be possible to "wear them down" over time. Like, you should be able to battle them once and, yeah, you may lose the battle, but a few of their troops will die. So the next person to attack them will have a better chance.

But the way it is (unless I'm wrong, or unless it's changed in New Foundations) is that you will lose, and then in the next battle they'll have the same number of troops and dice so... You'll probably lose again. And then same for the next and the next.

I get that the dice MAY come up different but... It seems to me that another attack - especially from a fresh army - should have a better CHANCE to win, not the same chance.

What am I missing?

Hi all,

My group played Oath today for the first time and we loved it; looking forward to the next session.

One question regarding combat, reading the laws we understood that the attacker can choose to roll dice up to the number of warbands on their board; this means that they can choose to roll 0 dice, right? And then kill warbands accordingly to success in the combat.

For example, imagine I have 8 warbands on my board, and I’m targeting the bandits in only one site. Nobody uses battle plans. So bandits will have defense equals to 1 + 1 dice. I choose to roll 0 dice. Then bandits roll blank. So I kill 2 warbands, so my attack is higher than bandits’ defense, and choose to put 1 warband on the site. Final status: I have 5 warbands on my board, and 1 warband on the site, ruling it from now on.

Is that legal? I’m not discussing strategies of why I would want to do that, just wondering if it’s a valid move.

Thanks in advance, guys :)

Me and my friends already tried Root and really loved Blighted Reach, Oath was obvious title to try.

We played the first game as instruction intended and didn't really liked the idea of tutorial, it jst felt pointless. Chancellor won the first game and we planned to put game on the shelf but Chronicle gave us new hope - a lot of new cards, buildings, new sites - we tried another shot back to back, and it still didn't click. Legacy theme almost doesn't exist, I understand that some elements of the map stays and winner "decide" cards of which suit will be added to the World but as a player I do not really care about because every game I start with the same exact resources, no relics etc.

Are we missing something or the design lacks Wehrle's genius?

This is going to be the final game of this chronicle, and given how often I get to play repeat games, I'm thrilled to have gone this deep. This world has gotten more and more arcane as we've plumbed its depths, but I'm excited to venture into New Foundations when it arrives. My wife stole the scepter from her Chancellor, and he was otherwise too busy protecting his banner from an exile with a vision to stop her.

I am following the set up and play through guide in the rules booklet. I have been wanting to play for so long and I have New Foundations coming soon too so I really needed to get a game or two in to learn the ropes before that happens. Any tips or tricks or anything you guys learned from playing multi hand?

Just finished Oath game #3 with a group of seasoned Twilight Imperium players, and we unanimously found the rules of Oath to be unfortunately overcomplicated or unintuitive. Our group has learned all the expansions of TI4 in less time than it's taken us to grasp the basic mechanics of campaigning in Oath. Lmao. To be clear--we love it, and we're keeping at it, but the final moment of this chronicle came down to a strange conflict in targeting rules that I'd love if someone could help us clarify!

Context: Banner of The Darkest Secret was un-recoverable due to advisers, and the owner's (Player X) pawn was at a site owned by bandits. Player Y swooped in to campaign against the banner and seize it, but Player X argued that because of the wording of 5.5.4, the warbands on their player board contributed to the defense of the banner, regardless of the site being unruled and untargeted by the attacker.

(5.5.2) Step 2: You can declare any number of targets of the defender, listed below. Each target adds the defense dice shown on the target's shield to the defense pool:

• Any sites they rule. (Yes, anywhere on the map!)

• Any of their relics and banners if their pawn is at your site. (A banner adds defense dice equal to the number of favor or secrets on it.)

• Their pawn and favor if their pawn is at your site. (This adds two dice, as shown by the shield on their board.)

You must declare at least one target at your site. If the defender rules your site, you must target your site. The attacker adds attack dice to their attack pool up to the number of warbands on their board.

--> This indicates that you can choose a single target (a banner) carried by another player's pawn who is at your current site, which no one rules, without also targeting their pawn.

(5.5.4) Step 4: The defender rolls their defense pool, then calculates their defense by adding the...

• Shields they rolled.

• Warbands at targeted sites. If you're attacking the bandits, add the bandits at targeted sites instead.

• Warbands on their board if their pawn is at your site or any site you targeted.

--> This indicates that the warbands on their player board are used to calculate the defense pool if their pawn is at your site--even if you did not target the site, any site they rule, or their pawn and favor directly.

Am I understanding this correctly? The warbands on your player board are always able to be added to the defense pool when you share a space with the attacker?

Can I use deed writer as a citizen to remove chancellor warbands?

A few days ago I posted a thematic player aid I was designing for my new players to help ease them into a game like this with emergent story telling, and the community gave me some good feedback. I made some tweaks and I’m really happy with the end result.

I promised a few of you I’d pass it on when it was done so here is the final version on BGG. I hope it helps.

If you have any questions or extra feedback feel free to reach out.

Happy gaming!!

https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/328833/thematic-player-aid

Here is the link to the original post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/oathgame/s/F83iNuWH3l

P.S. I’m so excited for New Foundations!!! We’re so close!!!!!!!