What are people buying?

[Jeremy]

Yes, I found the AP orange was shite. Despite being told by a fellow club member that it was good.

[grizzlymc]

Chap tried to charge my colours before they were shaken this afternoon. Sent him off in fine old style. The rest of his division lined up, shot me, shaked me and sent my colours running to my rear.

[tim.w]

Do you know, I'm quite tempted by the new Saga. Pricey for it all with dice etc though.

And yes I have Lion Rampant.

[Buff Orpington]

I had a look at the review in WI. At £10 the rules looked a bargain but if all the era packs are going to be £30 a pop I'd either have to restrict what armies I'd like to use or spend a lot of cash. Dice can be modified to standard D6 without too much trouble. For 1st edition I think I painted different numbers in certain colours and then put a coloured dot on the battleboards.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Here are a written and a spoken review of the new version. All-in-all, the author seems positive:-

http://anatolisgameroom.blogspot.co.uk/ ... eview.html

My regular gaming partner has v.1, which has given us some good games, but is frustrating because of the odd locations of many rules (either never found, or once found, never to be seen again), and the new version suggests we were doing the old one wrong in quite a few cases. Quite a bit has changed, according to the review, in terms of new rules, battleboard layout, etc etc.

I'm thinking of buying v.2 when I go to Salute next month, but am aware that v.1 battleboards won't work with it, so it looks like the new "faction book" is a must also (we already have dice etc, as appropriate). I think if there's a group of you chipping in, it's probably worth it.

[Zenbadger]

Been looking through the new saga this weekend. It looks pretty good, the rulebook is well laid out, much clearer than the first edition. Not played yet but it doesn't seem too far removed from the original. The Viking age book is quite good, twelve distinct armies with accompanying boards. I still can't help feeling that the battleboards would be just as effective as a deck of cards though.

[tim.w]

Apparently, you're not meant to mix "worlds" as it won't work as well. So only use armies from the one book in a game.

[grizzlymc]

Apparently, you're not meant to mix "worlds" as it won't work as well. So only use armies from the one book in a game.

Of course. It wouldn't be realistic otherwise.

[Zenbadger]

There is a section at the back of the Vikings book which lists armies from other world books which you could use. They don't advocate Irish vs Mongols but you can do Normans vs Muslims etc.

[grizzlymc]

I can see that the Irish might find Mongols a bit challenging.