Pre-Orders Begin For SAGA: Age Of Hannibal Armies & Expansion Book
September 4, 2020 by brennon
Gripping Beast has begun to take pre-orders for the new expansion to Studio Tomahawk's SAGA with Age Of Hannibal rocking onto their webstore alongside some new warbands for both the Carthaginians and Republic Romans.
SAGA Age Of Hannibal // Studio Tomahawk
In this book, you'll find coverage of the three Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage that took place between 264 and 146 BC. This then covers six different factions (and their Battle Boards) alongside their history, legendary units and specific special rules which make them feel unique on the tabletop.
As well as this you'll also find some new rules for Ruses which help you gift special advantages to your warband and backstabbing options to lay low your enemies. You also have the option to dive into Epic SAGA where you can take your warbands to twelve or eighteen points on each side. This allows you to play out those massive battles from antiquity. Obviously, you can also use these rules to perhaps bring bigger battles to the rest of SAGA too.
SAGA Age Of Hannibal Armies
As well as the new book you've also got two warband sets which you can pre-order. Kicking things off we have Hannibals own with the Carthaginian Warband.
Carthaginian Warband // Gripping Beast
This set helps you dive in with the core of a SAGA force. You get your Warlord, Hearthguard and Warrior options which allow you to build up a great set of 28mm warriors to use in your initial games. All of these metal figures are also available separately which means you can expand your warband immediately from Gripping Beast.
You can also decide to take on the role of the Republic Romans as they try and stop the Carthaginians from destroying their empire.
Republican Roman Warband // Gripping Beast
Again, this offers up your Warlord, Hearthguard and Warrior options as well as a set of Levy to ape the different Auxillary options that the Romans could draw on from across the empire. Much like with the Carthaginians, you can also buy all of these metal options separately.
Roll Your SAGA Dice
Building on the expansion book and the miniatures you'll also need some themed dice for each of the factions. All of these are now available on their webstore and here are the various designs below...
Carthaginian Dice // Gripping Beast
Republican Roman Dice // Gripping Beast
Barbarian Dice // Gripping Beast
Greek Dice // Gripping Beast
I do like the designs on these dice and they really do keep you "in-world" which I do enjoy. I am very interested to see what else we get in the book for the Greeks and the Barbarian hordes who are also slashing at the edges of the Roman Empire.
Are you tempted to dive in and explore the Age Of Hannibal in SAGA?
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Hannibals European tour guaranteed to bring the house down.
The dice are nice.
Nice looking miniatures and nice looking dice.
You’d be far better looking at Aventine (for metals) or Agema (for plastics) for your Romans as those don’t look particularly great.
where do you stand with Agema v Victrix?
Agema’s Romans have something that actually depicts chain-mail, whereas Victrix are cheap and lazy and their mail looks like honeycomb or a string vest. Though Victrix’s non mailed minis are nice.
Ah, thanks.
If I do end up joining in I will take a look at Agema… unless I play with 10mm again… 🙂
Play SAGA in 10mm
I intend to! I have my numerous fantasy armies still as wip. I have some 10mm dark age stuff awaiting my pleasure I even have some 10mm Samurai for 10mm Test of Honour / Saga Samurai whenever that gets released… What I lack is time, space and a baby that sleeps! (hopefully 2 of these will be sorted whenever my house move completes, but the last one is gunna be a pain for at least 18 years! My local club are all up for Hannibal in big scale though, (as they refuse to see the light), so to guarantee games… Read more »
Just in case anyone new to SAGA jumps in on the Hannibal book,some of the dice sets are used by 2 factions,like other releases before them.I’m very much thinking Warlord for my Republican Romans,but i’ll be checking Agema out as i’ve not heard of them before.
also the dice sets will be used for Age of Caesar and Age of Alexander, the three books are complementary to each other and you can fight between books as they were written as a triptych
Nice.I’d only heard rumours about the Age of Alexander,i had no idea that a trilogy was on the cards.
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Please no, I don’t have the cash for saga
I saw the thumbnail and I thought: the Age of Hamilton, but no, they’d have different uniforms and compete in rap battles. Then I thought: The Age of Hannibal, where they’d have liver for dinner with beans and a nice red wine. And, of course the general would look like Sir Anthony Hopkins.