Battle for Wadi Nashif : Saga Crescent and Cross

Not a historical battle but I thought it would be fun to roll out a Crescent and Cross Saga game for a change and mainly so I could get the Saracen archers completed a few weeks ago on the table. I mustered up two 7 point warbands using the Crusader and Saracen boards. We had a simple random deployment which ended up with a corner to corner battle, the saracens slightly obstructed by the wadi itself. We played 6 turns with the victory going to the side who had killed the most of the enemy.

The Saracen force coming on from the corner where the wadi is located, light cavalry and archers

Some light spearmen and heavy camel riders supporting the warlord

The crusaders of course have knights, crossbowmen and armoured spearmen

The Arab light horse seeks to gain advantage on the left flank

The saracens use some of their tricky board activations to draw the Crusader knights across the board splitting up their advance and then crashing in their charge

The light archers hiding in the wadi move forward to try and target the enemy horse

The camels getting the charge wipe out one unit of knights and the Crusader warlord is lucky to escape with his life

The Saracen archers keeping in the cover of the wadi

But within a couple of turns both the camels and the crusader knights have been destroyed and the Crusader Warlord has been caught out in the open on his own and put to death

The saracen light horse now moves up

The battle is in a delicate position with almost equal VP’s the Saracen warlord is incredibly lucky to survive one assault 

The battle could go either way

The Crusader foot knights charge in one last time to attack the Saracen warlord, but he survives again through some lucky dice rolls

He can then charge forward with the remaining light cavalry to finish the battle and claim victory

A tightly fought battle with the saracens getting lucky rolls just when they needed them. I wouldn’t want to play SAGA every week but it is always fun every now and then. It was a balanced battle going down to the last 2 combats.

We also visited  Vapnartak wargame show at the weekend, slightly smaller than previous years, but nice to catch up with a few people and talk about wargaming all day with like minded folk. Sadly no bring and buy due to the COVID restrictions but I wasn’t going to go home empty handed.

A mix of Foundry Figures for the ‘Great Game’ a couple of gripping beast warlords and rockets and craters for another sideline project 🤢

All the best and thinks for looking 👍