Still slightly behind on blogs.........over the years I have collected quite a lot of Fantasy armies which have mainly been played using WHFB, I still love the system but even with a good knowledge of the rules they are complex and we still find ourselves looking stuff up all the time. KoW has been a refreshing change and we are planning to try a larger battle and some more of this soon. we've played lion rampant with fantasy figures and with the impending release of Dragon Rampant it seems likely we'll have ago at that as well.
But Paul over on the Hobby Horse found some Saga fantasy rules
www.a-fantastic-saga.com/ we've played quite a lot of Saga so have the basics pretty sorted. We set up a 10 point battle which is fairly large to start with but it ran pretty smoothly. Chaos vs Dwarves....combat thugs vs shooty lads with short legs !
As a straight up fight it was obvious the chaos forces needed to get into combat as quickly as possible their board and special abilities all being around getting stuck in, the battle turn into a battle of two halves with the shooty bit of the dwarves being able to wipe out he chaos troops fairly easily before they got across the table in any strength. But at the other side of the battlefield where they went toe to toe, Chaos had the advantage.
The boards are quite complex and not for Saga novices but i quite liked them (does make we want to get my C&C troops sorted out) they stats etc for creatures, monsters seemed on this first try to work pretty well, but you do need to remember monsters are not as strong as in some other systems. We enjoyed it and will being playing again.
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| Battle lines set shooty dwarves already thinning out chaos on the right |
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| Heavy weight charge on the other flank |
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The giant took a particular dislike to the dwarf lord, his retainers can
only watch as he becomes increasingly exhausted |
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| Eventually with his retainers all slain the Dwarf lord had nowhere to hide |
Dwarfs do not hide from combat, they fight to a glorious end!
ReplyDeleteGlorious indeed but have you noticed dwarves are even shorter when they have their head lopped off !
DeleteI'm rather enviuos of the amount of games you get to play! Another fab batrep!
ReplyDeleteLucky indeed, despite our fairly isolated location up in the North we have a small group who are pretty keen, the challenge is everybody likes different stuff.
DeleteExcept you Matt, you like everything!
DeleteThanks for this little review. I'm building a dwarven army for AFS at the moment and though I've never played SAGA before, I can't wait to give it a try. :)
ReplyDeleteSaga is one of the best game systems I have played for skirmishing but try if you can to start with simple boards like the Vikings :)
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