Saga - My Anglo-Danes

The miniatures I purchased were not the best quality sculpt wise, but for the price I paid I am still happy, especially with the amount of play I have since gotten out of them.

I finally had enough Vikings and Saxons painted to get playing and the game proved popular amongst my gaming group. I didn’t want to start playing until i had painted models because I was trying to ‘sell’ the game to new players and didn’t want grey plastic armies to put people off with their first experience of the game.

I came to realise that the more heavily armoured troops should be considered Hearthguard elite troops, that the less well armoured troops should be considered Warriors and those with little or no armour and the worst weapons should be levies. I also found that the units should be broken into their weapon types, with all spears and shields miniatures being separate from those with swords and axes and shields.

Because Levies should be fielded in groups of 12 and because i wanted to get the game played ASAP i decided that i wouldn’t have any levies in my first play-throughs. Also, especially in first edition, Levies seemed like a particularly bad choice as they were awful in melee (rolling 1 attack dice per 3 models?), their only advantage being that they were often the only ones allowed to have ranged weapons (bows / slings etc.)

I got some very kind comments from Calador, Suetoniuspaulinus (Andy) and others on the WAYPN “What Are You Painting Now” videos broadcast on YouTube and on BoW.