Myself and Graham got together last week and had a game of SAGA at my place. Graham had not played much SAGA and was keen to get back into the game as our Wargaming Club now has a monthly SAGA night which has been very well attended. One of our club members has set up a SAGA Tournament for the end of November so we are all keen to get in some practice.
I recently have been playing the Anglo-Saxons with which I have had some success but I felt it time to rotate out another warband. My Moorish warriors have not seen any action for some time and I saw that the Seljuks were on the AoV/AoI list as allowed in the tournament so I thought I would pull them out and see if I could assemble a warband. I had initially planned to play them as the Umayyads but when I had a look at their BB (Moors) and the figures I decided to play the Seljuks (Saracen BB). I found the BB more attractive and my figure collection better suited Them.
As an aside Graham had thought that the Anglo-Saxons had javelins rather than spears, so when I pointed this out he was quite surprised. We had a quick look through his figure collection and the rulebook and his figures could easily be played as the Welsh but he had prepared himself with the Anglo-Saxon BB. He decided to stick with them for this game.
We used the Chaos method to set up our game, unfortunately I did not record the details so that is lost to time. The warbands are as follows.
Seljuks
Warlord
3 units of Foot Warriors
1 unit of Composite Bow Armed Horse Warriors
1 unit of Spear Armed Horse Warriors
1 unit of Bow Armed Levy
Anglo-Saxons
Warlord
3 units of Foot Hearthguard
2 units of Foot Warriors
1 unit of Bow Armed Levy
I have forgotten most of the details of the game but I did take a number of photos in which I will try to describe the action.
The Seljuk Horsemen. |
Grahams beautifully painted Dark Age warriors. |
Final position of the troops at game end, the Seljuks scored a fairly decisive victory by points but the Anglo-Saxons had put up a challenging game. |
It was a fun game and although not close, I thought Graham played quite well. I suspect though for the next SAGA night these will come on as Welsh. I think I will stick with the Seljuks for a bit! Their BB is interesting but I have a lot to learn in how to utilise it.
Great looking game…ages since we have played saga , they require so much concentration
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