Solo Saga

 I tried a solo play of Saga, Age of Hannibal.  Romans vs Gauls.  Set the game up, and did one move, and then packed it up.  Realised that I dont enjoy solo that much.

Great War #7

 Simon, with the British, had to take the German trenches.  He won easily, but after the game I checked how we were playing Temporary Objectives and we had it all wrong.

After Great War we went on to play Saga.  Simon got 11 points to my 10 - a draw (you need 4 points more than the opponent to win)

Saga and Undaunted

Leon came over and we played Saga -- which ended in a bloody draw where both commanders killed each other.

We then went on to play Undaunted -- which has rave reviews.  I liked it -- it is a fun, light WWII deck builder.  Shut up and Sit down absolutely rave over this game.

Cameron's Saga ...

Cameron came over and we played Saga.  Cameron was masterful, and slowly demolished my army.

Saga campaign -- season 1

The bonfires went up - the alarm had been sounded!  The Vikings were approaching the coast of Scotland!  Soon a messenger arrived -- it appeared that the most noble of Vikings, Niklaus Angrimson, was leading a raid!!!

But what were they after?  Iain McWadsley had no doubt.  This was an attempt to steal the precious and saintly relic -- the Madonna with the large Boobies.  There was only one thing to do -- hide the relic in the mountain caves.

But the cunning Niklaus predicted this is what the Scots would do!  He set up his men in a village on the way to the mountains, and waited for the treasure to come to him ....


The first battle of our Saga campaign.  Nick (with Vikings), leading a raid on John (with Scots).  It was "The Escort" scenario, with John having to get two out of three wagons of loot off the other edge of the table.

The mounted Scottish nobles on each flank charged forward

The Noble McWadsley had to consult the good book to determine the effect of his nobles throwing javelins.

Unfortunately, the nobles got too close on one flank.  The Viking bondi charged in, and were repulsed.  But the beserkers then finished off the nobles.  Meanwhile, Niklaus and some other warriors charged forward to attack the Scottish archers.

A unit of Scottish nobles got around the village, and prepared to attach some Viking archers

The vile McWadsley got too close to some Vikings, and the only action he could take was to charge them.  Things may have worked out well -- McWadsley wasn't called 'Troll Hide' for nothing.  But even his thick skin couldn't save him!!!

Meanwhile the precious treasure was making its way to safety.  Could McWadsley's noble sacrifice allow the treasure to escape?  Um, no.  McWadsley went down, as did his warriors and nobles.  Then the baggage was easy pickings.

All that survived of McWadsley's force were 7 archers that fled to spread the tale of the fearsome Vikings.

But what is this limping in -- if it isn't the troll hide McWadsley himself!  Muttering 'it's just a flesh wound', he lives to fight another day, though he has another scar to add to his troll hide!  And his noble example has inspired the local nobles.  Troops have flocked to McWadsley, eager to avenge the loss of the 'Madonna with the large Boobies'.  He now has better troops than before!!!!!  (75% of John's casualties came back post game.  Then he got some recruits to bring one unit of warriors back to 8 men.  And then, after a game of crap dice, John rolled double 6 on the post battle results table, letting him choose his bonus.  He upgraded the 8 warrior unit to hearthguard!).

But Niklaus didn't do too badly either.  He now has extra treasure.  And the experience slaughtering Scots has toughened his forces up -- he also got to upgrade a unit of warriors to hearthguard!

Sunday School

There was a crowd at Barrie's place.  I played Saga and was raped by Anglo-Danes with Dane-Axes!

SAGA!!!!!!!

Went to Barrie's and had a quick game of Saga with Mr Wadsley.  John was learning the system, and Jake was teaching him.  But we John had consistently bad dice, and I had good dice.  John was Vikings.  I was Anglo Danes.  I used by intimidation option to keep his Beserkers constantly behind his army -- when they did get into combat they were fatigued and the combat didn't go well!!!!

Another of Barrie's beautiful tables!

John looking intimidated!!!!!!

The final situation -- Johns warlord is dead, and his archers are looking nervous!!!!!

Saga, Bloody Saga!

Two games with Lowell.  Both were bloody and close!!!!

Game 1: Defend the Village.  I won, because at the end of the last turn I had one figure left alive, and he was still in the village!  Lowell had taken very few casualties.

Game 2: Sacred ground.  Lowell won.  I decimated him -- he was down to a few figures.  But he managed to kill my warlord!

SAGA (in 15mm)

I introduced Lowell to Saga.  Played in 15mm figures, halving the ranges for everything.

First game was 'Defend the Village'.  The nasty vikings charged in, but the brave saxons sallied out and tried to beat up on the viking archers.  This didnt go well.  It didnt go badly, but there wasnt a resounding victory.  And the sallying troops were pulled away from the village.  The village was in dire straights -- the defenders were being cut down.  Eventually the sally got back.  I claimed a victory on the last turn by having one figure (all I had left) still in the village -- with a horde of vikings raping and pillaging!

Second game was 'The Duel'.  Again Vikings -- but this time Jomsvikings (beserker type fellows) vs Anglo Saxons.  The Jomsvikings kept doing dirty tricks, like scaring my troops into not moving.  But Anglo-saxon numbers won out -- by the end of the game the Jomsvikings only had two figures left.  But they won (convincingly), because they had done the most damage to the Anglo-Saxon warlord.

Both games were fun bloody dark ages hacks.