SAGA megabattle

Today we played the Battle of Brunaburgh with SAGA rules. Each of the 4 players commanded 18 points worth of troops. It was Norse-Gael with Scots against Saxons.

Interview from the makers of SAGA

Teemu from our gaming club interviewed the makers of SAGA. The article has cool stuff in it, including few
glimpses to the future of the game. Well worth a read:
Interview

Saga Battlereport: Pagan Rus vs. Steppe Nomads

 We played a game of saga at Teemu's home. This time Teemu used WI :s Steppe Nomads, who have a capability to move fast and pulverize units with shooting.
I played Pagan Rus. It became apparent, that it is the anti shooting/movement faction with its battleboard..

Heres some music to go with the report :)

SAGA battlereport, The Battle For The Sheep!

Here is the latest battle for jomsvikings. My opponent now played against the wrath mechanic effectively not giving me nearly any wrath.
This means that I need to take a different approach to playing the battleboard, mainly relying more that he will rather give me activations etc. Also in battle there are pretty ok abilities even without wrath, I just need to start planning to use them.

In the escort scenario the other player tries to escort 3 assets over the field, and the other to prevent that.
Escorter wins if he gets 2 sheeps off the table, defender if he kills all 3 sheep. Any other result is a tie.

Saga battlereport, homeland

 

We played another game of SAGA, this time a scenario called "homeland"

 

 

First shieldmaiden ready

I got my 1st Foundry shieldmaiden painted. I'm using them as Jarl's personal retinue. The sculpts are awesome, they range from classical heroic poses to half naked fat midget (yes..). Overall, seems that Foundry has sculpted their vikngs with more tongue-in-cheek style than GP or Black tree.

Saga battle report, sacred ground

I fought my second saga game, and first with my new jomsvikings. The scenario was sacred ground, where the objective is to keep and hold 3 terrain features with as many troops as long as you can.

Jarl's runestone base

Well, here it is. The stone got grey basecoat, nuln oil wash, red wash for runes, and couple quick drybrushes of grey.

The magnet is somewhat off, I gotta move it to the center of the hole.

Saga, and how to avoid painting an army.

I bought Saga rules, northern fury armybook and jomsviking / viking dice set. The rules are fun and fast to learn, and filled with testosterone. Jomsvikings are the biggest reason I got the set though. Viking mercenaries . There is two words that somehow just rhyme :)

Well, as it happens, jomsvikings do not get levies and archers, so my recently bought 30ish viking archers are useless.. So instead of doing anything useful for my warband I thought I'd pimp up my warlord. He'll be standing on a larger base, but be detachable, so I can change him if I get more intimidating model. The base will have a runestone that I sculpted from baked sculpey. Sculpey is perfect, it bends, but with sufficient force, will break like stone (more or less). After baking it is easily carveable and cuts easily.



I looked few pictures to get some idea how they looked in real life. I went with a dragon with random runes .

I drew the image with a pencil and carved it with hobby knife, brushed it clean, glued it to the base, and washed it with nuln oil to see how it turned out.

Nuln oil brings out the pattern nicely, ready for painting.

Warlord in his place

Next up is basing and painting. I'll go with grey stone and red image, it seems to be the prevalent combination. I really hope I can keep up the intrest for few days to finnish it..