Friday 30 March 2018

Skirmish in the desert : Crescent and Cross

It has been a short while since I posted anything, work (an unfortunate necessity to fund my hobby) real life and resting after the Dumfries game mean I haven’t hosted a battle in the Dungeon for a couple of weeks. I have however been painting, more of that later today if I pull my finger out and take a photo.

Anyway a few weeks ago we played another game of Crescent and Cross using the new SAGA rules. Looking for something quirky we played with two quite complicated factions the Spanish and the Arab Religious fanatics. We also managed to pick out a very complicated scenario which involved capturing quarters and gaining victory points at the end of each turn. Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it  but we probabaly won’t be playing this scenario again. However, I did take a couple of photos and it was nice to get the slowly growing Crusader collection on the table.

The scenario has both factions scattered across the battlefield
The objective is to dominate each quarter with overwhelming numbers and it soon became clear this was extremely difficult to do
But the camels got stuck in ......
Crusader crossbowmen took up a central position
Very happy still with the new desert terrain mat
Don’t rate their chances much 🙂
After a couple of hours of chess like manoeuvring and some rough and tumble combat darkness settled over the desert and we had a draw
Ok not the best scenario but a good workout for the 🧠 

I will post some paining updates later 😛

15 comments:

  1. Nice run out for the lads and great to see you toiling away in the dungeon again.

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    1. Thanks Michael and welcome back from your winter painting challenge 🙂

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  2. Work is a killer. I'll sort out my diary and let you know some datesfora fight

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  3. Work, the scourge of the war gaming classes🙁

    Don’t know about the scenario but the set looks great.

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    1. Thanks Phil 🙂 I guess somebody has to pay taxes 🤪

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  4. Real life often has obstacles for hobby life...

    The desert mat does look good. This wasn’t Saga V2?

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    1. Thanks Stew, yes we played with core v2 rules but used the CandC boards

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  5. Looks marvellous! I’m just getting into Saga (which means I’ve bought rules and minis, but nothing else) with Vikings and Saxons.

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    1. The new rules are slightly simpler but we have always enjoyed the old version 😀

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  6. Work is such a drudge , but it pays for toys . A fine looking outing . Let’s get you over for game so we can smash Martins Atlantic wall .

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    1. Thanks Dave , happy to come across some time but Martin needs a lot of Germans or a lot of Atlantic wall 😀

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