Why Play OnePageRules as a Couple

[@jamiehuebsch]

This was heart warming. I'm looking forward to sharing the painting part of the hobby with my significant other, as we both like painting. I hope I can eventually convince her to play as well.

[@TableTopDateNight]

thank you! Painting is probably the thing we do the most. There is so much to paint and it is so relaxing. The actual game part is more of a perk I think. That's the great part about this hobby, you can fill your hobby time with the parts you want to do.

[@Fughley]

So jealous of seeing these comments of couples enjoying nerding out together. You’re all so lucky. My wife is understanding but completely hands off. Hopefully this is a growing trend.

[@TableTopDateNight]

you can always show her this video! good luck!

[@HobbyHomiesPodcast]

@@Fughley board games can be a good gateway!

[@Willandheart]

This will be a cool KZbin channel. Showing people, inside and outside our hobby, that playing as a couple is fun but also has therapeutic value for the relationship - is a great idea. Subscribed.

[@TableTopDateNight]

Thank you! that's the plan. It's a great game for a bunch of reasons

[@BaronDipitous]

My wife & I are big board gamers, & we love Unmatched! She's also been getting interested in painting minis along with me. OPR is definitely my wargame of choice (along with Malifaux). What a delightful new YT channel!

[@TableTopDateNight]

unmatched is a great game! we only have half a dozen of the boxes so far but some friends of ours have every single one (except deadpool, which i guess is really hard to get?). He even has a bunch of custom decks. It's awesome. There isn't much painting or terrain building in unmatched, though.

[@BaronDipitous]

​@@TableTopDateNight That's true. It's kind of a open & play thing. Yeah, some Unmatched sets are hard to find, but I'm just focusing on public domain/historical characters, which has been really fun.

[@SquareTableUnion]

When OPR releases the Firefight version of Quest, I think it would be fun to what the both of you play that. I’m trying to get my wife into it because it is co-op. Co-op is for my safety more than hers because she is ruthless.

[@TableTopDateNight]

I'm excited to try quest or heroes or whatever they end up calling the grimdark future version. We are planning a narrative campaign for grimdark future but a quest type game might work better? No idea. I've never played a game like that. And you totally should get your wife into it, it's fun to do this stuff together. We haven't tried a co-op game of OPR yet but i think we should. Could be fun to be on the same side haha

[@Gamerswithcoffee]

That's funny. My wife is ruthless when she plays also ,one day we played team yankee and she was the soviets,so at beginning of the game she puts on a Russian officers hat and played their national anthem 😅. It's great to have the other person involved

[@TableTopDateNight]

haha thats awesome! gotta commit to the bit!

[@Wolf359inc]

I am so jealous that you share your gaming hobby. I have been gaming for decades, and have been married for two of those. My wife is not a gamer. She is crafty, though. The best run we had with games was playing Scrabble every evening for several months… Love OPR, as it is easy to play solo, and also play solo campaigns, so I get my gaming fix. Will be starting a four/ five opponent Fantasy Skirmish campaign, as soon as the terrain, and war bands, are painted… :) Huge amount of forest terrain, and ruins, printed in FDM, and being spray painted. Four 150 point Skirmish teams, resin printed, and being hand painted. Promised myself I wouldn’t start the campaign until everything was painted, but I know myself… lol Cheers,

[@TableTopDateNight]

I'm super fortunate my wife came along for the ride, that's for sure. There is so much to this hobby I'm sure you can find something your wife enjoys doing. Right now I actually don't have anybody else to play with, so it's my wife or kids or solo only. A big fantasy skirmish sounds pretty fun, are you using the forest terrain that OPR just released? it all looks pretty cool but i haven't printed any of it myself. Maybe i'll print the new urban terrain. I play sci-fi mostly. Have you tried the age of fantasy quest yet?

[@Wolf359inc]

@@TableTopDateNight I’ve printed out one of every piece of terrain from the OPR forests, except for the new scatter terrain. Might do some of that down the line, but I’ve got more than enough for a board full of terrain ATM! :) I am glad I have a decent spray gun, as it is so much faster than painting with a brush. Been looking at Quest, but it is still too “beta” for me - I don’t think you can get heroes with a quality of greater than 5+ at present, with many heroes sitting at 6+. For me, this makes combat a chore, and somewhat of a slog, rather than a fun experience for me. Cheers,

[@TableTopDateNight]

I watched a couple rounds of quest, and i think you're right. It looks like there are some fun things there but i feel like i'm missing something. Maybe the game is still missing something? I'm sure it'll be fun at some point. Most of the few videos I watched, it looks like almost everybody is quality 5 or 6 like you said, but i think the rules have the heroes leveling up different skills with xp, so they could potentially get to quality 2 or 3 after a long campaign. I'm not certain though. I can't wait for the grimdark future version

[@YeAuldGrump]

My wife and I had a LOT of fun playing Rangers of Shadow Deep - a cooperative skirmish game. It kept us sane during Covid, and over the past few months we have been playing it with our 8 year old daughter.

[@TableTopDateNight]

@@YeAuldGrump I've never heard of that one, I'll check it out

[@vectorshaman338]

After going on a ton of dates, and mentioning board games & dnd at every date. 1 of them didn't run away. I think we'll be painting and playing board games for a long time now :D

[@Nuclear_Spider]

The irony of seeing this in my KZbin feed right after playing Firefight with my wife on Saturday. Glad to see others playing too! Btw, battletech alpha strike is an easier/shorter version might be worth checking out. Haven’t played in a while, but way less complex

[@TableTopDateNight]

Its a great game, isn't it? Never heard of battletech alpha, I'll have to check that out. I saw all the rules at first and just thought I'd rather play the video game at that rate 🤣

[@Nuclear_Spider]

@@TableTopDateNight Firefight is great! As you mention, quicker games are really convenient as we also have young kids. We are thinking of using the campaign rules to link some of the games together.

[@TableTopDateNight]

thats a great idea. I made a standard grimdark future campaign (and ideas for a related firefight campaign) but it involves a lot of jackals and those are pretty time consuming to paint, at least for us. Campaigns seem like a good way to bring some story into the games, my wife likes that. I don't know about you guys but my wife always wants them to have a compelling reason to fight, because "why can't they just get along? They have space ships, they should be advanced enough to not fight." Maybe she's right, but she doesn't accept my response "because if they all got along, we wouldn't have a game to play" 🤣

[@Nuclear_Spider]

@@TableTopDateNight yeah, the jackals are tricky with all the details and random clothes to paint. My wife is definitely the more competitive type, doesn’t need much reason to go to war, haha. I like the campaign as I feel it adds a bit more impact to the game. “Is it worth risking my unit for an objective at this point.” Plus, there is always a chance of some funny “story arcs” happening

[@thejesusaurus6573]

I LOVE OPR. Its completely saved my interest in wargaming and the hobby in general!

[@TableTopDateNight]

We love it too!

[@franciscopina2899]

This is so heartwarming and wholesome! My wife loves TTRPGs (D&D, Cthulhu, GURPS, you name it) but never showed much interest in miniature wargaming, even though she's a very hands-on woman, and loves arts and crafts, but she tried painting a mini once and it just didn't click. In the great Hannibal Chau's own words: - "I tried it once. ONCE!" That being said, OPR rulesets were a blessing from the skies for me, because thanks to its versatility and simplicity, I was able to easily set up a scenario based on my wife's favorite Sci-Fi franchise: Stargate SG-1, using Grimdark Future Firefight. At first she was a bit, dare I say, aloof, but as the game progressed, she was mote and more invested in it, to the point that now she wants me to make another scenario for us to play, and she even got the idea of making games based on SWAT (we both live the 2017 reboot) so I'm glad to say, I got her hooked to GFF, and even though she'll never grab a brush again in her life, I'm more than happy to do all the heavy lifting (I'm the only GM in our TTRPG group as well, so I'm used to it) so long as we get to share a great time pushing minis and rolling dice together 💞 Kudos to you guys, stay safe and keep enjoying this great game! 🤗

[@TableTopDateNight]

That's great! I love that about the opr system, you can very easily tailor it to whatever you want. Ice never seen SG1 but I keep hearing good things! Maybe someday I'll check it out. The last "new to me" sci fi show I watched was expanse and I was extremely hooked to the end. I heard that book series/universe actually started as a TTRPG game. Very cool stuff.

[@table-topthrowdown3222]

Sharing a hobby or gaming in general with your partner can be a wonderful element to a relationship. Cheers and thanks for the video. Enjoy.

[@TableTopDateNight]

Couldn't agree more!

[@Firedrake-f4g]

P.S. That Bolt Action game, we learned enough about it to meet up with a gamers club we had never interacted before and play a re-enactment game for D-Day. As you might imagine the guys expect you to know your rules. That was 5 months after purchase of the starter kits and books.

[@daethwing188]

Just FYI, there are simpler rules to play battletech, I forget the name. They give mechs Stat cards, you move units of them at a time, you use a ruler/measuring tape instead of hexes, and stat tracking is dramatically reduced. It's like the battletech version of 40k or OPR Grimdark Battle or whatever the non skirmish one is called.

[@TableTopDateNight]

someone mentioned that, I'll definitely have to check that out. I used to love the MechWarrior video games. MechWarrior 2 was my favorite. Atlas FTW

[@bitur696]

The name is Alpha Strike! It's like the "wargame" version of Battletech and with pretty simple rules. There's a free quickstart PDF on their page.

[@pauls3585]

You look like a nice couple. Enjoy your hobby time together ❤

[@TableTopDateNight]

Thank you, Paul! My name is also Paul. Good name!

[@pauls3585]

I agree Paul 👍

[@Skulliver-t8q]

This was great. I love OPR. Since you are have the models, you might take a look at Xenos Rampant as well. You have an open set of options and 24 points to use in building your army list. (There is an online builder as well). I recently did a Stormtroopers versus Ewoks game and it was a blast. You can stat up anything you like, how you like.

[@MiniWarMutt]

Awesome video! I recently encountered OPR and love it! I have 2 games under my belt and hoping to get more on the tabletop. I enjoy your videos. Keep at it! 👍👍

[@TableTopDateNight]

Thank you! We definitely will!

[@cynthiamiller586]

My life partner and I have been playing miniatures games together for almost 32 years now, starting with 1st edition 40k. The number of different rulesets we've played is crazy, including the one that I designed and published (Urban Manhunt). The hobby has been integral for keeping our bond strong as we navigate this crazy old world together.

[@TableTopDateNight]

a couple who games together stays together? or something like that?

[@cynthiamiller586]

Yes indeed. And our now-adult kiddos (youngest is 30) form the nucleus of our game group. @TableTopDateNight

[@Mussintertainment]

That is amazing please keep making videos im trying to make my wife and daughter play with me so the video is so relatable

[@TableTopDateNight]

We will! More to come!

[@smoothbrush4722]

is so nice you can print the minies and short rules

[@TableTopDateNight]

i agree

[@MedievalWargamer]

Great video enjoyed the content regarding the couples gaming. Subscribed.

[@TableTopDateNight]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed!

[@YeAuldGrump]

My wife and I have been playing OPR for years now. We have entire armies from the Patreon.

[@TableTopDateNight]

That's awesome! I've only been on the patreon for about a year but those occasional 70% off sales have been helping us get older armies

[@mephiston1216]

Awesome video! Happy you two showed up in my feed.

[@TableTopDateNight]

Thank you!

[@Gorokron]

Finished the video before realizing this had under 500 views. You have a new subscriber in me, good luck on the channel! I play OPR on Tabletop simulator and in person with my friends when we all get together a few times a year. Love painting miniatures and resin printing too. I'll have to show this video to my wife 😆

[@TableTopDateNight]

thank you! I would love to try TTS at some point, i just don't have the time. Definitely show this to your wife, the more people playing the better! you might end up with a lot more game time!

[@ericfrank4991]

Wow, ok your video totally struck a cord with me. I found OPR Grimdark after I was already 3D printing (I was into 40k previously but I got priced out). I also have young children, so time is of the essence. I am also married and I bet I could get my wife to play since the rules are not complicated the games are not long. I have tried to get her into Battletech as well, but as you mentioned, too much to keep track of. Thanks for sharing, great information. Btw, my 8 year old son beats me at Blood Bowl. I take it as my son mastered the rules so quickly due to my teaching skills :D

[@TableTopDateNight]

That is awesome! Try getting your wife to play onepagerules, it's really easy to play. I don't blame her thinking 40k and battletech is complicated. Complicated games can be really awesome but sometimes simplicity is better

[@CantusTropus]

Man, there's a lot of hobbyists with significant others around here - not to be rude, but that's not something I expected!

[@TableTopDateNight]

Haha I know what you mean!!

[@someone1999]

RIP Beasts of Chaos. I have nostalgia for Warhammer 40k and Battletech. But playing 5 hour games can be tedious. Looking forward to trying out OPR.

[@TableTopDateNight]

OPR is way faster than 5 hours. I think our longest game ever was our first gake at 2 hours. Most of that time was us trying to figure out the rules. After that it got much faster.

[@Choom89]

Brayherd won't stop!

[@charleslatora5750]

👍👍 Your doing alright. Lots of good people out here will help if ya got any questions. Figures look good. Keep up the great work.

[@TableTopDateNight]

thank you very much! we're having lots of fun

[@charleslatora5750]

@@TableTopDateNighta bit about me. I've only been to the miniatures for about 2 and 1/2 years. Before that going into last century I was strictly a hex counter war gamer. Though from early '80s through about the time I retired in 2017 it was family, work n my girls. All my figures are bought ( a few gifted). I don't have a 3D printer and probably no safe place to set it up if I had one. My biggest army is 200 Orcs in 28 mm. My painting skills are yuck, but it's my yuck, and they're good enough for my table. Enjoy what you're doing. That is the key. HAVE FUN!!! I let my four n half-year-old granddaughter paint a figure of general grievous from Star Wars. Let's just say he's way more colorful than normal. Much pleasure watching her pick her paints.

[@arob184]

I play with my partner too, mordheim but one page rules seems more easy to get into, so I'll try that. :).

[@TableTopDateNight]

Whatever works! I only have videos with onepagerules but we play other games together, too. Mordheim looks cool, we haven't tried it but maybe someday

[@HobbyHomiesPodcast]

Such a great game to share with your significant other! My wife enjoys playing as Battle Brothers in Grimdark Future, and she frequently destroys my Robot Legions.

[@TableTopDateNight]

Sounds like fun! We haven't tried battle brothers yet, I guess that's one consequence of not starting in warhammer. I never managed to acquire any space marines. Not yet, anyway lol. I'm sure opr will release some eventually, maybe after the HDF models

[@HobbyHomiesPodcast]

@@TableTopDateNight yeah my collection consisted with mostly GW miniatures for a long time before I saw the light, but there are some great 3rd party STL's out there now a days, and I'm sure the OPR ones will be great when they release them! Looking forward to seeing more of your videos, keep up the great work!

[@JuanOchoa]

So cool! A question, that storage solution to the right of the image, can you share the source?

[@TableTopDateNight]

Thanks! That's from a modular system called "Modi Boxi". I have all if our paints in a big setup like that, too. It's great, all FDM printable

[@ed11911]

Nice Video! Would love your take on Age of Fantasy: Quest when it comes out.

[@TableTopDateNight]

I'm very interested in quest, especially when they come out with the grimdark future version. I have the stl models and everything, maybe I'll give it a shot when I figure out the rules a bit more. That just adds to the point we made in the video about flexibility, the base OPR system is awesome like that. When we try it out we will definitely make a video!

[@PROTOHARRISON]

Very cool video. The Battletech you saw sounds like Battletech Classic but Alpha Strike is a streamlined and very simple version of classic. Hopefully you both give it a try 😄

[@TableTopDateNight]

I'd love to! Can't resist big robots

[@AD_Gray]

Having a one hour window for hobby time after the kids are in bed is so relatable! I would love to try this with my wife. We used to play skirmish games together before the kids but we haven't played in years!

[@TableTopDateNight]

You should totally try this game! it's very quick. Especially when you get used to the ruleset, then it just flies. only a few models on a table, real fast back and fourth. Even with our banter the recording sessions are about an hour, and recording makes everything take longer. You could probably crank out a game in 30 minutes if you play fast and don't agonize over decisions for too long.

[@AD_Gray]

@@TableTopDateNight Thanks for your reply! I will see if I can convince her to try it 🙂

[@Mopperty]

That was a great video. When you are ready to try something new, i would recommend a game called The Doomed. Its a very similar rule set to one page rules, however you can play it co op and hunt monsters together.

[@TableTopDateNight]

Sounds like fun! We love coop games

[@BryanLeeDavidson]

I love this channel.

[@TableTopDateNight]

Thank you!!

[@MeanderingMikesManCave]

Lots of cool minis!

[@TableTopDateNight]

Thank you! i have a slight addiction to 3d printing 🤣 one day i'll paint them all! maybe lol

[@JamesFisher-qk5gw]

Look at alpha strike if you want to try Battle tech. Also can you do a video about your 3D printing setup, specifically how you mitigate risk associated with resin and children in the house?

[@TableTopDateNight]

I'll check out alphastrike for sure. And definitely yes on the 3d printing video. I'm working on a whole "noobs guide to 3d printing for OPR" type video.

[@car_tag]

I'm intending on getting my girlfriend into OPR with me in the near future. Age of Fantasy Quest is looking like a fun co-op experience also. Edit: Subscribed

[@TableTopDateNight]

quest looks great, for sure. I heard they are planning on releasing the grimdark future version around october? I'm looking forward to it!

[@WillyEast]

Do you have suggestions on One Page ttRPGs? Does the shortness of the rules affect the gameplay or experience? Great video!

[@TableTopDateNight]

I haven't played any ttRPGs, but they have one fantasy RPG, it's called "Age of Fantasy Quest", and a sci-fi version is coming soon. They have mentioned doing some stuff to be used for DnD, but they don't have anything out right now. I'm waiting for the Grimdark Future Star-Quest, it's gonna be cool! I think the shortness of the rules helps the experience in the game because we spend less time trying to remember rules and more time trying to plan and strategize

[@WillyEast]

@@TableTopDateNight What are the games that you play if not ttRPGs? I would like to try them out.

[@Will_GM_for_Food]

I'm not against 3D printing necessarily. It's just that my pile of shame is large enough that the last thing I need is a magical device that summons hordes of new unpainted miniatures out of the aether.

[@TableTopDateNight]

Haha yeah we have a lot of unpainted stuff. My pile of shame isn't nearly as big as my *file* of shame. All the opr files are piling up and I've only printed maybe 10% of it haha

[@AndrewKolb101]

it's not a pile of shame it's a pile of possibility!

[@raysandrarexxia941]

Next year I will be moving in with my partner, and we both wanna play games together

[@TableTopDateNight]

do it! its great fun. you can play for all the chores, loser has to do the dishes 🤣

[@raysandrarexxia941]

@@TableTopDateNight Good thing I like doing the dishes >:3

[@Procione07]

Now im unemployed but in 2 mounth i will start to work again and tge first think im gonna buy is a 3d printer. I just have to figure out where to put it couse i live in a very small apartment with wife and kid, so can be problematic.

[@Gamerswithcoffee]

Opr we just got .me wife been gaming for many years . Nice to seeanother couple doing this. We subbed

[@TableTopDateNight]

Thank you! It's a great game for sure. We first played a lot with jackals and robots. Have since expanded to other armies

[@WARdROBEPlaysWWII]

@miniwarmutt said to come over here and subscribe…so I did!

[@TableTopDateNight]

Thank you! I appreciate it! He's a cool guy for sure. Looks like you play WW2 games? that's awesome. I used to play a bit of Hearts of Iron 4 and DCS on PC, I'd love to try a ww2 tabletop game. got any suggestions?

[@daethwing188]

Do you all have some link to that carrying case solution? I have a buddy who wants to do some clear acrylic basing, so he can't magnetize them, but wants an alternative to foam storage. I remembered your case from the video immediately with those base channels to hold the models. If you could share, I'd appreciate it. Cheers.

[@TableTopDateNight]

I don't have a link handy but it's called Modi Boxi, pretty sure it's all on myminifactory

[@Choom89]

Good stuff!

[@TableTopDateNight]

Thanks!

[@Procione07]

10:59 Clearly GW with all their games. 😂

[@LuisJimenez-pb3ge]

I’m teaching my gf OPR when she finished her Alien Hive

[@TableTopDateNight]

good luck! alien hive models look really cool

[@AdoringAdmirer]

Good video guys.

[@TableTopDateNight]

Thanks!

[@AdoringAdmirer]

@@TableTopDateNight GL on your YT journey.

[@kgeo2686]

What is the app for ios? and where do I buy the STL files?

[@TableTopDateNight]

The app is called Army Forge, and if it isn't on the ios store it might be on their website at onepagerules.com. the stls are available on myminifactory.com

[@kgeo2686]

@@TableTopDateNight Thanks! This was perfect timing. I'm getting into the hobby now :)

[@yagsipcc287]

@@kgeo2686 I hope you enjoy they have free rules to try out the most basic version, the advanced rules are only 5 bucks but are great or can get stuff on Pateron alongside a ton of STLs every month with the books for everything.

[@AndrewKolb101]

I really enjoy battle tech but I have played it for decades, I'm even going to pay Alpha Strike with my brother I also play opr with him too. However if everyone liked the same thing it would be so boring.

[@TableTopDateNight]

I agree, variety helps. We only have videos playing grimdark future firefight but we play all sorts of stuff.

[@Firedrake-f4g]

This is not to tell you not to do your own thing, but there are a bunch of misleading comments in this. I have a whole bunch of minis games with their own rules and there is not one that does not have a beginners set. For example, my son and I bought Bolt Action figures and rules. The figures were built and within a day of that we played our first game which was a straight out infantry skirmish. All of the games I bought included the need for rules, but ironically not minis. Secondly, maybe it's different here in Australia, but my one look into One Page had the rules for futuristic space combat at $30 Australian. I don't need that when I have X-Wing and GW 40K, which again have rule sets that go from simple to full on. As for 3D printers, again things must be different there. Printers here cost money. As does the curing station. The wash could be jury rigged if you want it. Then there is the cost of electricity, storage space and time. As for the resin, it is so cheap? are you counting the cost of the figures alone or are you including the fact that 50% of the resin "used" is discarded as waste because its usage was the support for the mini build? In addition, is every last drop of resin used or can you hold or mix resin that was poured into the tray with fresh resin a day later. Is there even a method for ensuring that only the resin you need is poured into the tray? So it has always been a bug bear of mine that people praise a system by denigrating alternate systems. Why can't it be good on its own merits.