Oaths & Banners | Hexwerks Studios

What It Is

Shieldwall Country

Oaths & Banners focuses on gritty early medieval fights where formation, courage, leadership, and timing matter more than spectacle.

It is a game about keeping a line alive in mud and weather, where banners, leaders, and rough steel decide whether a warband advances as one body or frays at the edge.

Oaths and Banners Viking warband assembled for battle — A warband gathered before the line breaks.

Oaths and Banners warriors advancing with axes and spears — Steel moves faster when courage has somewhere to go.

Oaths and Banners frontline warriors with axes — The front rank decides the shape of the fight.

Oaths and Banners veteran fighters in chainmail — Reputation stands where armor cannot.

Oaths and Banners warrior holding a severed head — Victory is sometimes carried by the hair.

Oaths and Banners line of warriors advancing — The line holds until one oath gives way.

Oaths and Banners kin-warriors near a thatched hut — Kin, hearth, and banner draw men to war.

Oaths and Banners warriors closing with shield-bearing enemies — The last pace before shields meet.

Oaths and Banners warriors charging across the field — Momentum is a weapon with no handle.

Shieldwalls

Hold or Break

Battlelines should feel physical, tense, and dangerous once they collide.

Banners

Identity on the Field

Standards and leaders give a force its nerve, focus, and battlefield purpose.

Warbands

Hard Choices

Players build compact forces and make sharp tradeoffs before steel is drawn.

Development Status

Rules in the Forge

This page gives Oaths & Banners its own home while the core rules, faction structure, scenarios, and public playtest material come together.