Hey there! I'm the guy that draws the 2D printable minis for Grimdark Future and Age of Fantasy. I actually first got into drawing paper miniatures because of your videos on printable minis for RPGs; it's been crazy to go from simple characters cobbled together for fun to making official drawings for my favorite gaming ruleset. Thanks for setting the ball rolling and getting me this invested in the hobby! And, of course, to anyone that hasn't tried them yet, I highly recommend you try the rules for either Grimdark Future or Age of Fantasy--you can print out free copies of the 2D minis and get playing right away :)
Love your Paperminis. Can't wait for more to come...its such a great way to get started in wargaming and dashout a huge army in a couple of days for nearly free! Please, don't stop drawing :-)
Thanks GOD i encountered OPR. My whole Gaming Group switched from GW to OPR which is just so much better than classic 40K.... that literally saved our Hobby because we got tired of the 40K-Bloat-Rules
IGOUGO has its weaknesses. Are you familiar with Chain of Command by TFL? It uses command dice using (usually) 5 d6 and the results of the roll determine not only what units you activate but whether or not you get a subsequent round of activations.
@@SPBurt1 yeah, that's about as opposite of GDF as you can get. That's a game for people who prefer crunchy rulesets and it's up to each individual to decide whether all the extra rolls and tables equals extra fun.
What I especially like about Grimdark Future is that the "feel" of the GW armies are preserved... My necrons really feel like necrons! Fantastic ruleset.
I would even argue that the armies feel *more* like themselves, looking over the Alien Hive rules and comparing to the latest Tyranid codex... I can absolutely see myself running a pure melee swarm in GF, without feeling like I am hobbling myself in the process.
I went to my local Warhammer store yesterday and all the singles were $35... I ended up buy a book. A massive book that will give me tons of hours of entertainment, for only $16. I get GW prices their models based on their value in the game but $35 for a single soldier is insane.
@@remusventanus5341 not to mention they will then make the old units worthless to launch new ones. They literally nerf and buff depending on what they need to sell.
Thank you SO much for introducing Grimdark to me. I have tons of Lego Star Wars figures so I use them. I hope you’re doing well and keep up the great content! ^-^
4 major selling points 1. Doesnt take all day to play 2. Take what ever minis you want. No detachment memes 3. Skaven and dorfs are in it as well as some mantic stuff 4. Alternating activations
This rule set always feels like a great method of operating Apoc 40k. It's clean, it's smooth, it's slightly more abstract and simplified, it's faster than standard rules but it loses some "detail" (crunchiness). But it makes for an awesome Apoc 40k game. It plays so smoothly you can really move a lot of points around and resolve things with plenty of "maneuver" and "tactics". In a lot of ways it what 8th/3rd Apoc should have been. A 750 point game is REALLY fast, and a 4K game is still faster than a 2K 9th edition game.
Do you use the multibasing/small scale rules at the back of the rulebook? I'm looking for a good game system to play 6mm with, and as I love Grimdark Future Firefight, another OPR game would be the best solution. edit: I just realized that you wrote Apoc and not Epic...d'oh!
Found Grimdark Future from your videos. Had been a wargamer for years, but burned out on GW rules churn and poor rules balance, as well as the bloat of the game. GF recaptured my interest, and like you I soon was dropping an embarassing amount of money building up forces. Gotten back into Wargaming after 10 years of just painting stuff for RPGs and making terrain following your tutorials (working on my industrial catwalks right now). Got a non-gamer buddy interested due to the easy nature of the rules, and my wife has played a few games with me and enjoyed herself, which is a testament to how accessible the rules are since normally it wouldn't be her kind of thing. I really love the whole approach of GF and really appreciate you giving the game publicity. I think a lot of people like me who like the 40K and Fantasy models and background but are a bit tired of some of the other aspects of the game like rules bloat or pointless complexity would get a lot out of this system. The games I have played have been reasonably balanced too, and easy to patch if there are balance questions.
I also gave up on 40k because of the poorly designed rules. You might want to check out adventure wargaming and tabletop skirmish games. Five Parsecs from Home is fantastic! Also, Stargrave is also very good.
This video is doing the trick, over on the OPR discord server we've just seen a lot of new folks join citing this video. Hope my Age of Fantasy Regiments video series can do the same.
Funnily enough, this was what I originally assumed 40k would play like when I first learned of its existence. Imagine my surprise when I looked at the *actual* 40k rules. 😂 OPR is definitely for me. I just hope I can find a group to play. 😅
Great introduction to the rules of Grimdark Future, and while familiar with them I found the visual Army Building section very helpful to solidify the rules for me. I always get tripped up with the "Buy X" headers. Also I have to agree on the sentiment for it helping Games Workshop sell models. If it wasn't for Grimdark Future, I would never have bought a starter set of miniatures.
What a great video. I've been wanting to get my kids into Warhammer tabletop, but the rules can be pretty convoluted. This will simplify things so a 9 year old can grasp it more easily. Thanks!
New gamer here that occasionally bribes the wife into playing with me. We both felt the GW mechanics were too complicated for your average/new player. This would work much better. Hell, off your description of combat alone, I feel like I could pick up my models and play a round or 2. That is amazing. Also, thanks for the heads up about the skirmish version. Model collection is still in it's infancy (soul war starter set).
@@paulyg405 The full rule book has a bunch of optional rules that give the game a bit more granularity. Things like suppression fire and over watch. Might be worth checking out
Between your sci-fi terrain crafting videos, and this grim dark future one page rule war game tutorial, I am finally inspired to branch out from fantasy and sci-fi RPGs to some entry level war games. Thanks Bill 🤘💀🤘
gamer of 20+ years now, and was bored with the constant updating and buying rules, so went into grimdark future and loving it. Not a patreon guy myself, so happy they are starting to sell the full rulebooks over at wargamevault! very cheap as well!
Thanks for the vid. Totally Agreed with what you said at the end. Tried to get into 40k, loved the models, but with every handbook, codex and new miniature coming out every month...I couldn't keep up with the cost or layers of additional rules. OPR is a great way to get people into the hobby with it's simplicity and availability. With the current sate of affairs, would love to see you post some A.I. battle reports (another perk of OPR).
This is basically how my friends and I played even with 40K rules back in 3rd ed, even with the activation portion since we thought it was boring to sit around and wait all day in big battles. This is great.
Awesome! Army building always trips me up and now I feel like I "get it" better. My friend and I did play a game of GDF:FF around the end of last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. Then things hit the fan and now it's just a waiting game....
Alright! You totally sold me. I've never played a wargame and I don't know why this came across my dash but I'm glad it did. Im just too broke for a toy chest full of models 🤣
Man this video should be on the front page of OPR! It helped so much with reading the lists and understanding the greatness of this system. As well as having a basic reference to come back to.
Thank you for this tutorial. From the bullet points to the FAQ - everything was evenly paced and concise. I’m a visual learner and your use of graphics was a HUGE help - especially for a war gaming newb. Subscribed!
I'm going to give these rules a try, they look great, thanks for the work to explain it all! Also at 18:30 you replace a model with a straight up plasma gun, but Table A is a unit leader style upgrades and attachments are meant to be combi-weapons on a sergeant, not a regular gun. Just worth noting for clearing up confusion of visuals.
Thanks to you using this ruleset on your channel, I recently gave grimdark a try ( because as a non-SM player the current situation has left me REALLY unhappy with 40k 9th edition and the OP Marine-tide) it's fun and quick to pick up and I've been spreading the word to other upset/disenfranchised 40k players to try grimdark as well
When you consider the history of GW, they started the exact same way. Standing on the shoulders of the giant that was Gary Gygax and D&D. So it's only fitting that another may spring forward in the same fashion.
Thank you, awesome rules ! Easy but efficient. Just dont like Line of sight rule, i would be more realistic to consider you can jusk kill the minis you see. If you see 3 minis in a unit of 10, you can kill a maximum of 3 minis,
Found this rules system through the TH-cam algorithm (one of the few times it's gotten something right). Thank you for making this video. My friend group (n=5) hates 40k as a game, but LOVES the universe and models. We all own tons of GW minis but have sworn off the actual 40k system for years now. I won't bother explaining why but I imagine you could come up with several reasons we might have that are common to many who have done the same. I've watched this video front-to-back, and have now also read the rulebook for GDF. What a fuckin' fantastic game. THIS is the "Warhammer" we wanted. We're going to put armies together and play this very soon. Thanks again for your excellent, crisp, no-frills and to-the-point video on how it works. I appreciate it.
Can I interest in you in a codex that will get FAQ'ed in a month after it drops and then languish for the next 2 years while the other codexes drop with more powerful units? BTW, you'll have to pay for the sub-faction as well ;)
I mainly paint for display. I tried 40k, two years ago, with my son. We both agreed it was damn snoozefest. I recently started buying the new Black Templars and 40k Orks, because I like the painting aspect. I really wanted to play, then I found OPR...holy crap! I can't wait to get back into it =D
Amazing tutorial. After the fatigue from the rules bloat from GW this is such a breath of fresh air. Christmas is coming and that's a great time to give this a try
Excellent Tutorial! All well explained visually with examples as I like it. Hope you make more tutorials like this for the other games of onepagerules.
To be honest this seems more interesting than 40k. I mean I never gotten to 40k because of how long a game took, how many rolls there are to do anything and that because it's a "I go U go" system the waiting takes ages. But this seems to have the cool aspects of 40k (high customization of forces) combined with rules that make the game fast and enjoyable insted of a waiting simulator.
I'm just starting OPR Grimdark future, I watched this video, read the rules, play several games, and now come back again to this video to check what I missed (mainly moral tests...)
Thank you so much for introducing me to Grimdark. I hope you read this at some point. I found you're channel before you hung up your shirt but only started playing Grimdark recently as my kids couldn't stand the long warhammer game times :) Anyway rest up and maybe one day we will see you again. Until then to quote the man ... make things and play games :D
Dude. This video is even better than the rules. This is so well-structured, your description is so ON POINT, your speed is exactly right... and you are able to ARTICULATE your thoughts in a way that somehow has become rare these days... Subscribed!
This is fantastic, thank you ! I've been meaning to look into these games for a while now, but this really showed how easily the game is played and I'd love to give it a shot!
This video was concise, precise, and illuminating. In other words, I have been educated and am ready to play. Sharing with all my WH40k friends. Thanks muchly!
You are a giant in the community. You're videos took me from being 'interested in a alternative to 40K' to understanding how viable (and fun)the OPR system is. I'm now 43 games in with GDF and loving it. My son and best friend play regularly. The tactical depth smokes 40K. Thank you so much for all the work you put in to make these tutorials and battle reports. I am not worthy :-)
Kids and I love 8th edition 40k. But, games take a while, they hate 9th, things get more and more complicated. So far,, we've just gone back to playing 8th, but I'd like to use my models that have been made illegal, and my models that didn't exist until 9th edition, and to finish a decent sized game rather than abandon it when the kids have to go to bed. This might be our solution, so glad I discovered this somehow.... no, seriously you've been doing this for awhile and it hasn't shown up in my feed or general searches until I started looking into some skirmish games and this "one page rules" was mentioned so I searched. This video gives me everything I need to make a decision on this, and since it's free it also won't be buyers remorse if there's something I can't stand (doubtful) or my picky kids refuse to play it (possible). The presentation seems like it will minimize page flipping ad well. My concern is being broke right now the unit builder may have to wait, lol. But then I'll finally be able to pick up those Mantic ForgeFathers and use them as Squats!
Rockin. No need for the unit builder, the existing lists are pretty well balanced as-is. Also, I have a bunch of full battle reports in my playlists, in case you didn't see them...
I got into tabletop wargaming because of this channel, about 9-10 months ago. I play the skirmish version (GF: Firefight) and i love it :) Thx for introducing me to this awesome hobby :)
awesome video. makes me wish i had more people to try and play this game with. I played 40k though 8th edition (dark eldar mainly) and that edition and 9th so far have been utterly cruel and brutal to my faction. So playing a fun, easy, balanced game would be pretty sweet. I built a papercraft sisters of battle army using your methods and guides as well, and frankly i've like the GDF battle reports you've done. hopefully this vid gets more people to play irl or on TTS, would be sweet to play.
A “breath of fresh air” - I got the Kill Team Starter set a while back after many years of not playing 40k and after trying to come to terms with the Rule Book, realised that likely 90% of play-time would be spent consulting and interpreting the overly complicated “Rules”. Not good d for a fast paced skirmish game. - OPR is exactly what is needed for a quick-paced skirmish game - few and simple “rules of engagement” that don’t need to be minutely referenced at every turn. Games Workshop should take notice and drastically slim down their skirmish targeted rules. Well done 👍
Given how broken primaris are I like this one a lot at least at first glance oh, I'll have to give it a try hopefully all the factions are supported, maybe I can switch over to this system until 40K gets its head out of its ass
Not only is every GW faction you can think of catered for, it also covers even _more_ factions - for Grimdark Future alone, there are the Dwarf Guilds, _two_ lots of space rats (Ratmen Clans and the Vile Rattus Cult), and the human Feudal Guard. And if you have models that you want to create your _own_ rules for, as Wylock points out, Tier 1 patrons get access to the points calculator which lets you stat up any model or unit you like...
I was wondering if you have dabbled into the Grimdark Future: Firefight expansion... specifically, the Gang Wars (Necromunda style). I'd love to see a similar video for that. You explain things in a way that is very easy to understand for someone with minimal experience. Thank you!!!
Tanks for this tutorial. It might sound cheesy but you showed me EVERYTHING I needed to know about the game, including some FAQ :P I'm in mate. Thanks again!
Another great video. Very well structured and instructive. On an unrelated note, I love the way your Tyranids look. Would you consider doing a painting tutorial on them?
I played a small game with my buddy who's been in a 40k rut lately because of the rules bloat in 9th, this ruleset really lit a fire under him to get playing again! We've both been enjoying it and got to use armies we've had shelved for YEARS!
Kudos very well made video, thank you bro now my old Mage Knight collection gets life back and be represented amongst the figures that can be used in the Battlefield. Love the figure agnostic position of OPR. This makes formation based battles so much easier and faster gameplay. Now to introduce to my youth group.
@@paulyg405 I think Eugen means that OPR have army lists that can be used for, or likely inspired by, Mantic models. I know the GF Dwarf Guilds were inspired by Mantic's Forge Fathers...
I've heard OPR mentioned, or at last alternate 40k rules... But this was a really simple explanation that's sparking my interest. I've been a D&D player for several years, and this simplified combat really feels more like how TTRPGs play, with units taking turns and the rules feeling a bit more fair and easy to run. I could see this being really fantastic for narrative games. and... I see there's a Killteam equivalent too that's much easier to use. That's on my list of things to try right now. As soon as I'm done this next terrain piece.
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Hey there! I'm the guy that draws the 2D printable minis for Grimdark Future and Age of Fantasy. I actually first got into drawing paper miniatures because of your videos on printable minis for RPGs; it's been crazy to go from simple characters cobbled together for fun to making official drawings for my favorite gaming ruleset. Thanks for setting the ball rolling and getting me this invested in the hobby! And, of course, to anyone that hasn't tried them yet, I highly recommend you try the rules for either Grimdark Future or Age of Fantasy--you can print out free copies of the 2D minis and get playing right away :)
Awesome! Well this is kind of a weird three-way loop then, isn't it?
Congrats man!
Thank you both for all you do!
Love your Paperminis. Can't wait for more to come...its such a great way to get started in wargaming and dashout a huge army in a couple of days for nearly free! Please, don't stop drawing :-)
@@WylochsArmory You really should do a game with his cardstock minis for the sake of both nostalgia and promotion.
Holy Shit! This battle system seems...comprehensible. I might actually play this.
Thanks GOD i encountered OPR. My whole Gaming Group switched from GW to OPR which is just so much better than classic 40K.... that literally saved our Hobby because we got tired of the 40K-Bloat-Rules
More people who got red pilled, like myself. I found out about OnePageRules from discourse miniatures.
40k player since 2nd ed.Played Grimdark Future the 1st time yesterday. I'M IN❕️
i cant get anyone here to do that, wish they would.
Great tutorial! Yet another prove that the alternate activation should be the norm in army level games
IGOUGO has its weaknesses. Are you familiar with Chain of Command by TFL? It uses command dice using (usually) 5 d6 and the results of the roll determine not only what units you activate but whether or not you get a subsequent round of activations.
@@SPBurt1 yeah, that's about as opposite of GDF as you can get. That's a game for people who prefer crunchy rulesets and it's up to each individual to decide whether all the extra rolls and tables equals extra fun.
Not in army level games. Maybe skirmish to large skirmish, but alternate activation removes a lot of the grand strategy of larger, army scale games.
@@deece1482 my emperor, some people enjoy that more
What I especially like about Grimdark Future is that the "feel" of the GW armies are preserved... My necrons really feel like necrons!
Fantastic ruleset.
I would even argue that the armies feel *more* like themselves, looking over the Alien Hive rules and comparing to the latest Tyranid codex... I can absolutely see myself running a pure melee swarm in GF, without feeling like I am hobbling myself in the process.
Used to love 40K back in the day. But can't justify a company that charges $30 for a single plastic mini just because it's a hero/champion.
I went to my local Warhammer store yesterday and all the singles were $35... I ended up buy a book. A massive book that will give me tons of hours of entertainment, for only $16. I get GW prices their models based on their value in the game but $35 for a single soldier is insane.
45$ now in my country
just get recasts. you can get a box of ork boyz for like 17 dollars or a box of krieg grenadiers for 24. hero characters are like 12 bucks max
@@KillAllTheBugs where at?
@@remusventanus5341 not to mention they will then make the old units worthless to launch new ones. They literally nerf and buff depending on what they need to sell.
Thank you SO much for introducing Grimdark to me. I have tons of Lego Star Wars figures so I use them.
I hope you’re doing well and keep up the great content! ^-^
That’s such a great idea, crazy creative bro.
Nice!
I just recently saw some community created custom LEGO army lists in OPR’s browser army builder. 😂👍
4 major selling points
1. Doesnt take all day to play
2. Take what ever minis you want. No detachment memes
3. Skaven and dorfs are in it as well as some mantic stuff
4. Alternating activations
This rule set always feels like a great method of operating Apoc 40k. It's clean, it's smooth, it's slightly more abstract and simplified, it's faster than standard rules but it loses some "detail" (crunchiness). But it makes for an awesome Apoc 40k game. It plays so smoothly you can really move a lot of points around and resolve things with plenty of "maneuver" and "tactics". In a lot of ways it what 8th/3rd Apoc should have been. A 750 point game is REALLY fast, and a 4K game is still faster than a 2K 9th edition game.
Do you use the multibasing/small scale rules at the back of the rulebook? I'm looking for a good game system to play 6mm with, and as I love Grimdark Future Firefight, another OPR game would be the best solution.
edit: I just realized that you wrote Apoc and not Epic...d'oh!
Found Grimdark Future from your videos. Had been a wargamer for years, but burned out on GW rules churn and poor rules balance, as well as the bloat of the game. GF recaptured my interest, and like you I soon was dropping an embarassing amount of money building up forces. Gotten back into Wargaming after 10 years of just painting stuff for RPGs and making terrain following your tutorials (working on my industrial catwalks right now).
Got a non-gamer buddy interested due to the easy nature of the rules, and my wife has played a few games with me and enjoyed herself, which is a testament to how accessible the rules are since normally it wouldn't be her kind of thing.
I really love the whole approach of GF and really appreciate you giving the game publicity. I think a lot of people like me who like the 40K and Fantasy models and background but are a bit tired of some of the other aspects of the game like rules bloat or pointless complexity would get a lot out of this system. The games I have played have been reasonably balanced too, and easy to patch if there are balance questions.
Awesome
I also gave up on 40k because of the poorly designed rules.
You might want to check out adventure wargaming and tabletop skirmish games. Five Parsecs from Home is fantastic! Also, Stargrave is also very good.
It's crazy to see how much OPR has blown up in the past few years. I know they're working on Not-BFG, I hope Not-Epic 40k is next.
Not Epic can somewhat be played with rules found in GF's full rulebook ;)
OPR is working on a new rulset for Not Epic. No idea when it will be ready, though.
@@evanlindsey1100 YOOOOOO
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@@evanlindsey1100 I like epic so I’m happy OPR will be making their own interpretation
This video is doing the trick, over on the OPR discord server we've just seen a lot of new folks join citing this video.
Hope my Age of Fantasy Regiments video series can do the same.
Funnily enough, this was what I originally assumed 40k would play like when I first learned of its existence.
Imagine my surprise when I looked at the *actual* 40k rules. 😂
OPR is definitely for me. I just hope I can find a group to play. 😅
Great introduction to the rules of Grimdark Future, and while familiar with them I found the visual Army Building section very helpful to solidify the rules for me. I always get tripped up with the "Buy X" headers.
Also I have to agree on the sentiment for it helping Games Workshop sell models. If it wasn't for Grimdark Future, I would never have bought a starter set of miniatures.
That's an awesome parade of Ultramaroons. This game, and the other games from One Page, really do deserve more publicity.
@Bingus McDrangus I'm sorry, I don't understand the question.
@Bingus McDrangus because onepagerules MADE the damn game?
@Bingus McDrangus they're the same thing just a different setting.
Hey, I've seen you on BoLS!
I love how in one well-organized video taking less than 25 minutes this is all you need to know to play the game! Nice job, Wyloch :)
This is exactly what I have been needing to get me back into big army scifi wargaming. Most excellent video.
What a great video. I've been wanting to get my kids into Warhammer tabletop, but the rules can be pretty convoluted. This will simplify things so a 9 year old can grasp it more easily. Thanks!
New gamer here that occasionally bribes the wife into playing with me. We both felt the GW mechanics were too complicated for your average/new player. This would work much better.
Hell, off your description of combat alone, I feel like I could pick up my models and play a round or 2. That is amazing.
Also, thanks for the heads up about the skirmish version. Model collection is still in it's infancy (soul war starter set).
@@paulyg405 The full rule book has a bunch of optional rules that give the game a bit more granularity. Things like suppression fire and over watch. Might be worth checking out
Between your sci-fi terrain crafting videos, and this grim dark future one page rule war game tutorial, I am finally inspired to branch out from fantasy and sci-fi RPGs to some entry level war games. Thanks Bill 🤘💀🤘
gamer of 20+ years now, and was bored with the constant updating and buying rules, so went into grimdark future and loving it. Not a patreon guy myself, so happy they are starting to sell the full rulebooks over at wargamevault! very cheap as well!
To be fair, you can support them on patreon *once* and you permanently get every rulebook and other stuff for like £5
They did update the book in regards to declaring targets when splitting fire. It does now state that you have to declare targets first.
Thx
Thanks for the vid.
Totally Agreed with what you said at the end. Tried to get into 40k, loved the models, but with every handbook, codex and new miniature coming out every month...I couldn't keep up with the cost or layers of additional rules.
OPR is a great way to get people into the hobby with it's simplicity and availability.
With the current sate of affairs, would love to see you post some A.I. battle reports (another perk of OPR).
This is basically how my friends and I played even with 40K rules back in 3rd ed, even with the activation portion since we thought it was boring to sit around and wait all day in big battles. This is great.
Awesome! Army building always trips me up and now I feel like I "get it" better. My friend and I did play a game of GDF:FF around the end of last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. Then things hit the fan and now it's just a waiting game....
I went over and downloaded the rules, they look pretty straightforward. By the way, nice Ultramarines army you've got there!
Those are BATTLE BROTHERS
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Alright! You totally sold me. I've never played a wargame and I don't know why this came across my dash but I'm glad it did. Im just too broke for a toy chest full of models 🤣
Check out my videos on DIY cardstock armies.
Man this video should be on the front page of OPR! It helped so much with reading the lists and understanding the greatness of this system. As well as having a basic reference to come back to.
Dude ive binged ALL OF THIS PLAYLIST I NEED MOAR!!!!
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This is really comprehensive and so well put together. Thank you for taking the time to make this 😁
Thanks - waited for something like this - its always added benefit to see rules explained in action!
I made 'Bolter Action' based on previous one page rules. I am going to play the hell out of this!
What I like most about this video are the examples you provide after explaining the rule. Well done.
This was a very clear tutorial and introduction. About to have my first match this weekend!
Thank you for this tutorial. From the bullet points to the FAQ - everything was evenly paced and concise. I’m a visual learner and your use of graphics was a HUGE help - especially for a war gaming newb. Subscribed!
I'm going to give these rules a try, they look great, thanks for the work to explain it all! Also at 18:30 you replace a model with a straight up plasma gun, but Table A is a unit leader style upgrades and attachments are meant to be combi-weapons on a sergeant, not a regular gun. Just worth noting for clearing up confusion of visuals.
Yeah I have no combi weapon models, you are right that could be misleading for a 40k transplant player.
Thanks to you using this ruleset on your channel, I recently gave grimdark a try ( because as a non-SM player the current situation has left me REALLY unhappy with 40k 9th edition and the OP Marine-tide) it's fun and quick to pick up and I've been spreading the word to other upset/disenfranchised 40k players to try grimdark as well
Thank for the video. I printed up these rules a couple of months ago, but haven't got around to playing with them. Great intro! (y)
This system is standing on the shoulders of giants for sure. Thanks for showing us this!
When you consider the history of GW, they started the exact same way. Standing on the shoulders of the giant that was Gary Gygax and D&D. So it's only fitting that another may spring forward in the same fashion.
@@hyperguyver2 Couldn’t agree with you more!
Thank you, awesome rules ! Easy but efficient.
Just dont like Line of sight rule, i would be more realistic to consider you can jusk kill the minis you see. If you see 3 minis in a unit of 10, you can kill a maximum of 3 minis,
In that case, you have a discussion with your opponent, and if you both agree, you house-rule it! 😉
Awesome video. Would like to see this game gain some momentum in the community.
Found this rules system through the TH-cam algorithm (one of the few times it's gotten something right). Thank you for making this video. My friend group (n=5) hates 40k as a game, but LOVES the universe and models. We all own tons of GW minis but have sworn off the actual 40k system for years now. I won't bother explaining why but I imagine you could come up with several reasons we might have that are common to many who have done the same.
I've watched this video front-to-back, and have now also read the rulebook for GDF. What a fuckin' fantastic game. THIS is the "Warhammer" we wanted. We're going to put armies together and play this very soon. Thanks again for your excellent, crisp, no-frills and to-the-point video on how it works. I appreciate it.
This is an incredible tutorial, glad to see someone covering One Page Rules!
Great simple and clear explanations of the basics - thanks so much.
Done with GW bloated rule of Warhammer. Been thinking of switching to this all day long
Can I interest in you in a codex that will get FAQ'ed in a month after it drops and then languish for the next 2 years while the other codexes drop with more powerful units? BTW, you'll have to pay for the sub-faction as well ;)
You did an amazing job breaking this down!!
I mainly paint for display. I tried 40k, two years ago, with my son. We both agreed it was damn snoozefest. I recently started buying the new Black Templars and 40k Orks, because I like the painting aspect. I really wanted to play, then I found OPR...holy crap! I can't wait to get back into it =D
Amen. I got plenty of battle reports in case you wanna see how it flows. Compared to 40k.
@@WylochsArmory I'll definitely check those out. I just joined the OPR Patreon, as well ;)
Amazing tutorial. After the fatigue from the rules bloat from GW this is such a breath of fresh air. Christmas is coming and that's a great time to give this a try
Excellent Tutorial! All well explained visually with examples as I like it. Hope you make more tutorials like this for the other games of onepagerules.
I was worried I was going to have to "home rules" 40k to make it simple for casual players, this is perfect!
To be honest this seems more interesting than 40k. I mean I never gotten to 40k because of how long a game took, how many rolls there are to do anything and that because it's a "I go U go" system the waiting takes ages. But this seems to have the cool aspects of 40k (high customization of forces) combined with rules that make the game fast and enjoyable insted of a waiting simulator.
Super helpful! I'd love to see this for Firefight as well!
Great intro video for this game. i was wondering what i was going to do with my sizeable wh40k collection. Thank you muchly!
I'm just starting OPR Grimdark future, I watched this video, read the rules, play several games, and now come back again to this video to check what I missed (mainly moral tests...)
I just found out about One Page Rules and this video was very helpful. Thanks!
Thank you so much for introducing me to Grimdark. I hope you read this at some point. I found you're channel before you hung up your shirt but only started playing Grimdark recently as my kids couldn't stand the long warhammer game times :) Anyway rest up and maybe one day we will see you again. Until then to quote the man ... make things and play games :D
Thanks for the post
Dam man that entry look seriously good. And I have been waiting for a video like this for ages
Fab video. Clear, concise, helpful.
Dude. This video is even better than the rules. This is so well-structured, your description is so ON POINT, your speed is exactly right... and you are able to ARTICULATE your thoughts in a way that somehow has become rare these days...
Subscribed!
This is fantastic, thank you ! I've been meaning to look into these games for a while now, but this really showed how easily the game is played and I'd love to give it a shot!
Thank you for doing this video! It really helped me teach my dad and little sister how to play!
Wow best video so far I’ve found explaining this game. Thank you so very much
This video was concise, precise, and illuminating. In other words, I have been educated and am ready to play. Sharing with all my WH40k friends. Thanks muchly!
Awesome rundown. That explained a lot.
This is a very good introductory video. Kudos.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! after 1 25 minute video ( and 30 years of gaming ) I think i could actually play a game competently thank you guys!
You are a giant in the community. You're videos took me from being 'interested in a alternative to 40K' to understanding how viable (and fun)the OPR system is. I'm now 43 games in with GDF and loving it. My son and best friend play regularly. The tactical depth smokes 40K. Thank you so much for all the work you put in to make these tutorials and battle reports. I am not worthy :-)
You pretty much did what i've been itchin to do since about the end of 8th edition. Thank you
Kids and I love 8th edition 40k. But, games take a while, they hate 9th, things get more and more complicated. So far,, we've just gone back to playing 8th, but I'd like to use my models that have been made illegal, and my models that didn't exist until 9th edition, and to finish a decent sized game rather than abandon it when the kids have to go to bed. This might be our solution, so glad I discovered this somehow.... no, seriously you've been doing this for awhile and it hasn't shown up in my feed or general searches until I started looking into some skirmish games and this "one page rules" was mentioned so I searched. This video gives me everything I need to make a decision on this, and since it's free it also won't be buyers remorse if there's something I can't stand (doubtful) or my picky kids refuse to play it (possible). The presentation seems like it will minimize page flipping ad well. My concern is being broke right now the unit builder may have to wait, lol. But then I'll finally be able to pick up those Mantic ForgeFathers and use them as Squats!
Rockin. No need for the unit builder, the existing lists are pretty well balanced as-is. Also, I have a bunch of full battle reports in my playlists, in case you didn't see them...
I love this, and hope to bring more people to wargaming showing OPR products around.
Also, the patreon is 100% worth it.
Excellent intro. I’ve been lurking behind the fence on wargaming so to speak and this video has tempted me more to give it a shot.
This sounds *very* good, and the models in STL files are just awesome
I got into tabletop wargaming because of this channel, about 9-10 months ago.
I play the skirmish version (GF: Firefight) and i love it :)
Thx for introducing me to this awesome hobby :)
Thank you so much for this Review!
Subscribed. I've had it with re-buying rules every 10 minutes.
Awesome video and great suggestion. I'll try it soon!
awesome video. makes me wish i had more people to try and play this game with. I played 40k though 8th edition (dark eldar mainly) and that edition and 9th so far have been utterly cruel and brutal to my faction. So playing a fun, easy, balanced game would be pretty sweet.
I built a papercraft sisters of battle army using your methods and guides as well, and frankly i've like the GDF battle reports you've done. hopefully this vid gets more people to play irl or on TTS, would be sweet to play.
There's actually quite a few people who play via TTS or Roll20; if you hit up the OPR Discord, odds are you can find an opponent! 😁
My group always takes so long between games that there are new editions and codex every time we try to get our 40k armies out.
Awesome video Wyloch!!! I want to play around with the rule set in 15mm scale. I think if I half the ranges it should work for 95% of things.
People have done that...be sure and search the OPR forums, I have seen people post there with their experience doing that.
A “breath of fresh air” - I got the Kill Team Starter set a while back after many years of not playing 40k and after trying to come to terms with the Rule Book, realised that likely 90% of play-time would be spent consulting and interpreting the overly complicated “Rules”. Not good d for a fast paced skirmish game. - OPR is exactly what is needed for a quick-paced skirmish game - few and simple “rules of engagement” that don’t need to be minutely referenced at every turn. Games Workshop should take notice and drastically slim down their skirmish targeted rules. Well done 👍
Gotta get me some of those dice.
But really. Those dice.
Seems super fun can’t wait to try it out
Well explained. Nice simple Rules. TY
Great introduction to the rules. I play a lot of Mantic games which have this kind of vibe and I really dig it. Can't wait to try it out!
Love the old school minis, I still have all of mine too!
Awesome explanation video! Is age of fantasy the same ruleset?
Given how broken primaris are I like this one a lot at least at first glance oh, I'll have to give it a try hopefully all the factions are supported, maybe I can switch over to this system until 40K gets its head out of its ass
GDF has Prime Battle Brothers a.k.a. Primaris so you can choose which you want to field as.
Not only is every GW faction you can think of catered for, it also covers even _more_ factions - for Grimdark Future alone, there are the Dwarf Guilds, _two_ lots of space rats (Ratmen Clans and the Vile Rattus Cult), and the human Feudal Guard. And if you have models that you want to create your _own_ rules for, as Wylock points out, Tier 1 patrons get access to the points calculator which lets you stat up any model or unit you like...
@@Brickerbrack Where can you find 3d models to print for it?
I was wondering if you have dabbled into the Grimdark Future: Firefight expansion... specifically, the Gang Wars (Necromunda style). I'd love to see a similar video for that. You explain things in a way that is very easy to understand for someone with minimal experience. Thank you!!!
You have no idea on how good this video was, thank you, wyloch!!
Tanks for this tutorial. It might sound cheesy but you showed me EVERYTHING I needed to know about the game, including some FAQ :P I'm in mate. Thanks again!
This video is almost too good. Fantastic work
Another great video. Very well structured and instructive. On an unrelated note, I love the way your Tyranids look. Would you consider doing a painting tutorial on them?
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@@WylochsArmory Thanks a lot!
They should pay you for this video! Excellent quality as always.
Holy moly this is a great video!
I played a small game with my buddy who's been in a 40k rut lately because of the rules bloat in 9th, this ruleset really lit a fire under him to get playing again! We've both been enjoying it and got to use armies we've had shelved for YEARS!
thank you very much, very clear and useful video for a potential new player like me!
Man thank you so much for this!
Kudos very well made video, thank you bro now my old Mage Knight collection gets life back and be represented amongst the figures that can be used in the Battlefield. Love the figure agnostic position of OPR. This makes formation based battles so much easier and faster gameplay. Now to introduce to my youth group.
I wanna play this so bad, though I’d probably use Mantic instead of GW.
It actually looks like a good amount of the army lists are Mantic based.
@@paulyg405 I think Eugen means that OPR have army lists that can be used for, or likely inspired by, Mantic models. I know the GF Dwarf Guilds were inspired by Mantic's Forge Fathers...
I've heard OPR mentioned, or at last alternate 40k rules...
But this was a really simple explanation that's sparking my interest. I've been a D&D player for several years, and this simplified combat really feels more like how TTRPGs play, with units taking turns and the rules feeling a bit more fair and easy to run.
I could see this being really fantastic for narrative games.
and... I see there's a Killteam equivalent too that's much easier to use. That's on my list of things to try right now. As soon as I'm done this next terrain piece.