One of the reasons I wanted to resin print was, perhaps oddly, One Page Rules. They’re purveyors of simple versions of the Warhammer rulesets (simple D6 + special rules systems) who also produce obvious facsimiles of Warhammer armies to 3D print. They tend to do their own take on the minis and I tend to like them.

I own a bunch of their armies already across both fantasy and scifi settings. My son really loves their Saurians (Seraphon) and I actually really like their Ratmen (Skaven). Funny enough I’ve painted a Skaven army before but sold it after not playing them for a year–at all. Not even once. I painted 4,000 points of Skaven and they saw no action under my guide.

Well, these guys have seen some actions! I painted up my warriors and my son painted up his. We got a small game of Age of Fantasy: Skirmish (a ruleset as generic as the title) and he had a blast. It’s funny–this is a system you could probably make up with the following information:

1. It’s alternating activation
2. It’s a D6 combat system with special rules
3. The only stats are Quality, Defense, and Toughness

The above is an example of a card. There you go. Envision this system in your head for a second. Now, if you care enough, go look it up. The base rules are totally free. The advanced rules are… fine. You could make them up, honestly. The real strength here is that they’ve already statted out every single model in the Warhammer cadre and they have an excellent online builder. It even prints lists as cards while listing out every special rule and its explanation as a summary at the bottom. Genuinely cannot praise it enough.

I don’t mean to sound like I’m ragging on the rules. They’re good–honestly. Their objective is to be a simple game that allows for you to play the full sized army of your choosing with a very ergonomic ruleset. I honestly believe that’s a fully achieved mission statement. You will enjoy your games. You just won’t be blown away. They make for ideal ways to introduce a kid to the Warhammer style environment in general on the cheap, especially with 3D printing. I’m happy with it.

And my son, again, had a blast. This was an undersized game with only 3-4 units per side. He won at the end of turn two after wiping me off the board. I nearly turned the tide but with so few units it was down to dice luck pretty fast. With a properly sized list (6-9 units) it’s much more of a reasonable game.

Between the two groups I like the Saurian models more. They’re a great example of just enough detail. My son managed to finish them and technically caught about 90% of the detail. He’s, uh, ten, so don’t judge the models on the paint job. The Ratmen were a little over-detailed. Busy, I suppose. This made painting them painful due to all the small things that had to be differentiated. I still really like the models and I plan to paint up 40 of them regardless. Note that I could have chosen my colors better. We were painting in the living room so I stuck with the dark bronze metallic that… really didn’t pop. I realize now it even blends in with the fur tone. I’ll have to fix that in future batches.

They have a neat vibe. I made them dirty but you could readily paint these as clean rat-people, as if they were a real organized army. They’re not necessarily the ‘bad guys’ in their design. As a person who genuinely likes rat-people conceptually I really like this as a change of pace. Plus, as I’ll hopefully show off in the future, the choices made to differentiate them from Skaven are interesting and fun. They get little monster trucks and bikes! And thanks to the flexibility of OPR’s system you could build an entire list with 20 of the damn vehicles.