Another great weekend. James’ turn to host. Before the pics of the Games, just a couple of photos of James new Danes. New Dane Warlord Game One Rich’s Normans Vs Lexx Playing Vikings Initial Deployment Vikings advance under arrow fire from the Normans The Viking Warlord Hearthguard and Berzerkers consolodate […]
Ok, so whats in the box. Well firstly it doesn’t come in a box, but your basic starter set-up is as follows: The Saga rulebook – Quite thin, which is reassuring fr a quickplay game. But the £25 price tag puts it at the “premium” end of the […]
Saga is the new(ish) game on the block from Gripping Beast and Tomahawk studios. It pits small warbands against one another in the dark ages period, specifically 793 – 1066. We have had an eye on this for nearly a year now, and after seeing the Demo game at Salute […]
James hosts July's games, drinking, and Indian cuisine appreciation weekend. Considering the game boards and scenery were knocked up the night before, the whole setup looked ace. We got to try out SAGA for the first time and got a good 5 or 6 games played.
Match 4 – Rematch between Rich and James Initial Deployment sees the Normans adopt a much more defensive posture, with the Ranged units (1x Warrior, 1x Levy) forming the line, with the Mounted Hearthguard being held back for counter-attacking when the line is attacked. Anglo-Danish deployment hugs the cover, hoping […]
Match 5 – Tom vs Rich The Normans Again formed up their “Bastion”, this time in the rocky ground. The Vikings came head on, determined to weather the hail of arrows to make it into close quarters Careful use of cover mitigates the Norman ranged attacks – Toms Warlord, Berzerkers […]
Match 1 – James’ Anglo-Danes vs Richards Normans. The First game played using the Saga rules system – first runs through always take a while, and this was no exception, however the rules are a lot simpler than some other systems we have played, so it all flowed quie well. Some […]
Match 2 – Toms Vikings vs Rich’s Normans The Game started quite late into the evening, so the picture quality isnt great. Rich attempts an encircling manoeuvre with cavalry out on both flanks, with ranged troops holding the centre. While this meets with some initial success the Norman Warlord is […]
A few pics of peoples Saga Warbands. Everyone who made it to the games weekend had their warband painted up and based inside the month allotted. Not a bad achievement for a casual games group. Pictured are James' Anglo-Danes, Tom's Vikings, and Rich's Normans.
Two years ago we did a project a bit like this. We saw a game we liked at salute, and the 4 of us all brought a starter box, painted our forces, painted and played a few games in under a month. If you look through this site, somewhere you […]
James got in first sending pictures of the his Anglo-Dane warband. Although he didn’t provide use with details of the exact colours he chose, it looks like Games Workshop acrylic paint, followed by Army Painter system Quickshade and a few GF9 products for basing. From the photos I can […]
I couldn’t tell you why I picked the Normans. We all picked our respective forces based on looks rather than any insight into the rules. The Normans have this very distinctive feel about them, with the stylised nose-guard helms and kite shields, they should be recognisable to anyone. The […]