April News & Previews #2
For ten years, the universe of Grimdark Future has only been glimpsed through a couple of narrative campaigns, short army book introductions, illustrations and design cues on models. Things have already begun to change this year, however, with the rolling out of the new Secrets of Tixal narrative campaign and short stories.
The Grimdark Future World Book is the next big step in unveiling the lore for our game!
So what is the Grimdark Future World Book?
This 64-page book has been a long time project which has grown and developed alongside the setting and its lore. A primer on the wider Grimdark Future setting, it will connect the lore shown so far through narrative campaigns, short stories and army book intros and build a foundation for future stories and campaigns.
Featuring:
Humanity’s origins and history in the Grimdark Future
The history, ongoing conflicts, key locations and factions of the Sirius Sector
Information on societies in the setting, touching on everything from space travel to policing.
Galactic geography, introducing the wider galaxy and the planets contained within.
Beautiful artwork on almost every page, including some factions never before depicted by OPR
New short stories and flash fiction throughout the book, depicting life on and off the battlefield in Sirius.
Free Preview of the Grimdark Future World Book
We've made the first section of the Grimdark Future World Book, the first 13 pages, completely free! Learn about the history of the Grimdark Future universe, from the Human Civil War to their arrival in the Sirius Sector, and more!
Dive into the worlds of Grimdark Future and Age of Fantasy with two short stories, available now on our website! These stories give you a taste of life and conflict in our settings. All of our stories are available in our new Short Stories section of the website, and we will add new stories every month!
Read This Month's Stories:
Grimdark Future - Faith in the Hive by Dillon Olney
Age of Fantasy - A Daemon's Bond by Pierre Mortel
Get Early Access & New Themed Missions on Patreon
Want even more? Patrons get access to our stories one month early! Not only that, we also have new playable missions for our games for each story, including the two above that you can play right now! These missions are themed around each of the stories and are a great way to bring the lore to your tabletop.
This week we’ll be running our 10th writing jam, so don’t forget to sign up!
The OPR Writing Jams are story writing marathons, where participants are asked to write a one-page story set in the OPR universe in 48hrs, following a common theme. Participation is completely free and at the end of the writing jam we will highlight your favourite stories on our website.
The writing jam is planned to run from April 12th, at 8PM UK time / 3PM ET time, to April 14th, at 8PM UK time / 3PM ET time., with the theme being announced at the start of the jam.
Sign up now: https://itch.io/jam/oprwj10
Check the website for more details and rules: https://www.onepagerules.com/news/sign-up-for-opr-writing-jam-10
At the top of post, you'll see some early previews of the what we are working on for April!
The Vampiric Undead let loose the dogs of war with the Werewolf Champion and Werewolves unit. Their massive Claws rend through armor like butter. But when that's not enough, they can also be equipped with great weapons to cleave through the enemy ranks.
The High Elf Fleets turn up the heat with the Scorchers and Noble Scorcher. Adept in all things burning, the scorchers excel at being Anti-tank with their armor melting Fusion Rifles. When equipped with Heavy Flamers, they roast off hordes of enemies instead.
Please remember that these are early WIP shots of the models and not the final versions of the models.
That's it for this week, happy wargaming!
- OPR Team
Comments (15)
Are the models mono pose?
Some are, but others have some customizability.
Really like these Werewolves! Might have to combine with some Wrath of Kings minis to make them their own army.
damm what the size of the werewolf bases?
The Werewolves fit on a 40-50mm base size.
Werewolves are looking good, except for that strap on the leader's face. Hope there is an option without it.
I just love all of the elven guns so far. That makes me want to even print one lifesize
Those who grew up up russian cartoons certainly will appreciate big bad wolf having steel jaw.
For those interested and not afraid of clay animation here it is with eng subs: https://youtu.be/Hmfhh9A_xCA?si=pUzb65Y_diDzd8Ug
Love the wolves. Very rakham looking. Only thing is that belt on the champions jaw. It’s weird. Like what’s it doing for the wolf. It isn’t elastic so when his mouth is closed if it was holding something in place it would fall off. If it’s a muzzle it’s doing a bad job when the wolf can open its mouth wide. But I dig the steel jaw.
Looking at the elves I cannot help but mentally sing "I'm Mister Heat Miser....."
The werewolves look cool. Any chance the hand ands are the separate bits for the champion since the arms took to really have the same pose in each version? (admittedly, I didn't spend a ton of time comparing them) That sword would look really cool mirrored and half in the left hand with the right hand as the open claw.
Been reading the world book and enjoying it heaps. Great to have all this stuff in one cover. Well done, and look forward to more.
Glad I backed since the beginning of VU range! the rabid puppies look awesome. will there be an iron-jaw head option without nose piercing? looks odd on a wolf
Jackals should 100% be redone in the style of the Werewolves lol It looks SICK! I mean, the vampires & ghouls were cool, but that literally gives me a reason to think about playing Vampiric Undead.