Studio Tomahawk’s SAGA Aetius & Arthur Up For Pre-order
December 21, 2016 by stvitusdancern
The much-anticipated supplement rules for SAGA is now up for pre-order, SAGA Aetius & Arthur.
This new book takes you to the next great period in the period it is described as:
The year is 410AD. Barbarians have crossed the Rhine and invaded the Western Roman Empire. The Visigoths have pillaged Rome while the Huns have arrived on the Roman Empire's borders after ravaging the east. To counter these threats, the Romans have abandoned Britain, leaving the Britons to face the Picts and Saxons alone.
Within this book, you will get 6 battle boards for the Romans, Britons, Saxons, Goths, Picts and Huns. It sure is going to get crowded on the battlefield! It will also come with four new scenarios and rules for mercenaries.
If that is not enough, how about a whole campaign built around a lone outpost surviving against wave after wave of barbarians! Exciting times for SAGA! It will be released no later than the first week of February of 2017.
Will you be ordering the game?
"Exciting times for SAGA!"
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This look really nice (as does SAGA by the way) How does SAGA play? Anyone with experience in it, please comment.
I really wanted to like the game but I found the randomness of the dice-battle board mechanic frustrating. Plus the abstraction of the powers (sorry can’t remember the name) was too much for my taste.
Having said that I can see why some people love it. It’s worth trying out if you think it might be up your street.
Absolutely love it. Great rules which offer depth without needless complexity, cheap to get into, lovely miniatures and a pretty healthy following with tournaments and the like if you’re into that sort of thing.
Im struggling to think of a historical game which offers a better gateway into historical gaming.
Thank you all for the feedback, much appreciated. Enjoy the festive Season 🙂
It’s a really interesting format involving the use of dice and a battle board. You roll the dice according to the number of groups of characters you have (usually a 6 point game) and then choose which groups to activate and what skills to use by placing the dice rolled on the battle board. It is a really interesting format. You can use your warband leader to move groups that are near them. I have a Viking army which contains berserkers and a Valkyrie warband leader. I think a Roman band would be quite interesting – there are some great… Read more »
Really looking forward to this. Currently my group uses Lion Rampant for this era but I’m really keen on Saga and will get this to hopefully persuade them.
Saga is interesting. In many ways it has some of the abstraction of a board game rather than a pure minis wargame. In my head its more of a board game without a boardif you can imagine such a thing!
Great way to get into a particular period as you don’t need too many models, and also because of its abstraction, you don’t get those awful button-counting period-lawyers playing it, like you can with some historical wargames, so it is a lot of fun!
Biggest plus of the SAGA rules in my oppinion is thier simplicity. They’re easy and fast to learn. Also easy to teach to and understood by total wargame newcomers.
While a skirmish szenario will not suite every encounter, it’s perfect for raiding a villiage or holding a bridge, for example. But you won’t play out big battles, I’believe. Though I’ve to admit l never tryed to scale it up. 😉
Had to pre-order this, plus a set of the ridiculously pricey Roman dice- happy Xmas to me!
SAGA is great fun- the basic mechanics are simple to pick up, but there’s plenty of depth and ‘Meta’ from the Battleboards and the way the abilities interact with each other if that’s your thing- it’s very satisfying to rack up a brutal combo after some careful planning…
Or you could just run at things and hit them repeatedly until they stop moving, as my Vikings are wont to do!..
SAGA is a good game, but like some others I am not really fond of the randomness of the battleboards and dice mechanic. Lion Rampant is a good alternative and either game is fit for smallish skirmishes and both are simple enough for beginners.
Gripping Beast just released SwordPoint for bigger size armies than SAGA. I just bought it today so can’t say yet if it is any good.
Thought I might have to wait for Salute for this. Looks like not.
Saga in a nutshell, really easy game to pick up mechanics wise. You just need to master the battleboards or find one that suits your play style.