Saturday 9 February 2019

Viking Dawn.........

With preparation time slightly limited by real world complications, for our next game we played another skirmish game, with a quick change of scenery and the removal of crocodiles we had a SAGA skirmish somewhere in northern France where a small Viking band is seeking to best the local Norman Lord.

It has been ages since we played SAGA and it showed with my knowledge of the Basic rules and the strengths of the Norman battle board woefully lacking. But we took some nice photos.
The set up required both sides to come on from opposite corners bringing  the river into play and slowing down the Norman advance
The Vikings booooooo
Somehow the Viking archers deploy quickly and start to shoot across the river
The Norman’s seem reluctant to engage in battle but that might just be the commanders incompetence!
Norman cross bowmen should be powerful but are exhausted quickly by arrow fire
That’s more like it Norman Knights galloping into combat, but I should have had them in groups of six as they manage to lose the combat and get themselves wiped out !
Even the Viking archers sensing victory start to wade the river (oh for a crocodile now !)
Bad to worse, by the village more valiant Norman knights are cut down
The final Norman’s decide to charge in.......
Scoring some minor confusion as a Norseman is caught in the bushes with his trousers down.

A couple of these Norman units were recently painted so I shouldn’t have expected much more, a resounding victory to the Vikings mainly to my poor handling. We need to give them another run out to regain their honour 🤔

20 comments:

  1. Great stuff as usual Matt. New toy syndrome, I know it well.

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    1. Thanks Phil yes Phoenix has s definately on I’ll check the date I have

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  2. PS. Do you know if Phoenix is happening this year, can't make sense of any search on the web, except that it says the 30th of June, a Sunday, change of day?

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    1. Yes I believe it is Sunday the 30th this year 😀

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  3. Oh the joy of new units and rusty rules

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  4. Ah well, at least the Norman commander can take good photos.

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    1. All in the camera ....well phone anyway 🙂

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  5. Looks great, wonderful figures...

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  6. A result I can only too readily empathise with of late.

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    1. This was definately a weak performance on my part 🤔

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  7. Another fabulous game, but those archers were lucky that the livestock from the previous game had pushed off.

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    1. Thanks Michael, yes I really needed the croc again but not many found in Northern Europe in the dark ages 🙂

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  8. Great looking game, the benefits of functional terrain.
    Cheers
    Stu

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    1. Thanks Stuart a quick cha be with different buildings and good to go

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  9. Saga is definitely one of those games where if you haven’t played in awhile you kinda forget what to do... 😀

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  10. Great looking game! Bit of an unfortunate result!
    Best Iain

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    1. Should do better next time....fun to get the newly finished figures out anyway

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