SAGA: Ages of Ages
6pts of Thebans completed and some thoughts on playing them
I’ve had four games with the Thebans now, three games against Successors and one versus Carthaginians. They, like most Saga armies, take a bit of getting used to as far as getting the most from the Battle Board goes. So far I’ve learned to keep the javelin levy in front of the two main phalanx blocks which screens them from missle fire and early speculative attacks before you get into position to charge. The phalanx needn’t form Line of Battle too early – just keep them together and use their regular move of M to get into position. Once Line of Battle is formed your Battle Board comes alive and they are pretty impressive in attack. The Sacred Band have a max-ed out starting dice pool of 16 until they take 5 casualties and with Resilience (1) this can take a while. The Oblique Phalanx isn’t a shrinking violet either and opponents struggle to manage to fight them, even closing ranks doesn’t help much and Battle Board defence is needed to hold out against them. If an opponent can hold out they are a bit vulnerable once the battle board abilities are used so opponents need to sacrifce a cheap unit or two and then pile in with their best units or keep running away and shooting. I’m not winning often but I am causing problems for opponents who really don’t like having to face such a scary line of battle.
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