Black Oaths | Grim Viking Age Skirmish Game

What It Is

Warbands Under a Black Sky

Black Oaths follows oath-bound warbands into fights where saints, ravens, relics, and old powers all press on the same ground. It is a game of named fighters, lasting injuries, and battles that read like a saga page.

The rules are being shaped around dangerous choices, clear table movement, narrative campaign hooks, and the pleasure of putting a painted warband under pressure.

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Current Status

Public playtest. Rules are in development, with no release date, price, or final download posted yet.

Miniature Gallery

Blood, Relics, and Ruin

Black Oaths lives through painted figures, cursed set pieces, and warband characters that already look like they have paid too much.

Black Oaths miniatures with winged and many-armed figures — Oathbound powers gather at the edge of the field.

Blue-skinned Black Oaths warrior miniature with blade — A blade carried by something older than mercy.

Black Oaths procession with priest and creature miniatures — Faith, hunger, and command move together.

Pale ghoul miniature with bloodied hands — The dead places do not stay quiet.

Blood-stained bishop miniature with followers — Rites are remembered by what they cost.

Blood-stained bishop miniature framed by hanging figures — A saint to some. A warning to everyone else.

Black Oaths burdened captive miniature from the front — The punished carry more than wood.

Black Oaths burdened captive miniature from the back — Every sentence leaves a trail.

Black Oaths burdened captive miniature carrying a heavy plank from the front — The burden returns with a sharper face.

Black Oaths burdened captive miniature carrying a heavy plank from the back — Even the back of the body tells the story.

At the Table

Built for Brutal Decisions

Players build compact warbands, command named fighters, and pursue oaths that drag them toward relics, saints, blood-debt, and old powers. Wounds and injuries matter, and the cost of one fight can follow the warband into the next.

Warbands

Compact Forces, Named Blades

Build a small warband where each fighter has a job, a risk, and a place in the saga.

Oaths

Promises With Teeth

Fight over sworn goals, blood-debt, relics, broken faith, and old powers that will not stay buried.

Consequences

Scars Carry Forward

Wounds, injuries, grudges, and hard-won relics give future games a history before the first move.

Command

Choose Who Pays

Every order asks which named fighter steps into danger and which oath is worth the blood.