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 😛