Crescent and Cross a game of Saga

It has been ages since we saw a game of Saga in the dungeon. But with my work mate keen to try anything I thought I would try and hook him into Saga. I have had Crescent and Cross for ages but we haven’t really played it enough focussing in the past mainly on the traditional Saxon/Viking version. One issue of course is Crescent and Cross is based on the first version of the saga rules. This doesn’t matter to me as I actually prefer this version.

Anyway I  now have plenty of figures suitable for most of the factions in my Al Andalus collection. With this in mind and after a short introduction to the rules we jumped into a six point battle with Crusaders vs Saracens. I didn’t take many photos as we were spending plenty of time discussing the rules. But here are a few of the battle

The two forces line up fairly close as we wanted to get straight into the action

Some cavalry action on both wings and the crusaders get the better of the combats

Strange to be playing Saga with smaller units, but the rules some came back

Two units of a try crash into each other

After some fierce fighting in The centre the Crusader warlord finds himself isolated he only just survives by sacrificing three of his hearthguard

But then determine to be aggressive he charges in against the Saracen Warlord and finally gets the better of the combat.

A fun game with the crusaders getting the better of it. Nice to play these rules after a long period, they are very different from others but provide a fun and challenging alternative. We will be playing some more saga again soon.