SAGA - Age of Hannibal

[Ninefingers]

- Six New Battle Boards

• Carthaginians
• Gauls
• Graeculi
• Numidians
• Republic of Rome
• Iberians

- New special rules and equipment
- Mercenaries
- A brand-new mechanism: Ruses!
- Rules for fighting large-scale battles with Saga

Due September 2020

Well I'm excited, I spent lockdown building two Punic Wars armies...

[aktr]

I currently have 40 odd Iberians, 60 odd Carthaginians and 30 Celts as part of a big Carthaginian army so they will get used for this

so looks like I've made a good start, very tempted to get all 6 armies for this

[SteveBurt]

Well this is good news, I already have all those armies for big battle games

[Fremitus Borealis]

Looks cool... I wonder if they'll ever make a "Hellenistic" edition of SAGA? Or if the game mechanics would even work for it...

[AFC Forever]

That always seemed a logical next step to me - especially as I suspect there are a lot of Age of Magic Greek armies kicking about

[pixelgeek]

No interest in the armies but I might pick it up for the new rules if they will also,work in Age of Magic

[Melnibonean]

No interest in the armies but I might pick it up for the new rules if they will also,work in Age of Magic

Now that's something worth thinking about.

[Ninefingers]

Looks cool... I wonder if they'll ever make a "Hellenistic" edition of SAGA? Or if the game mechanics would even work for it...

I suppose they would have to find six different factions. Sparta, Athens, Persians...?

[SteveBurt]

Easy to find 6 Hellenistic factions - Achaemenid, Greek City States, Macedon + Successors, Indian, Thracian, Skythian. Plus Romans if you want

[Ninefingers]

Easy to find 6 Hellenistic factions - Achaemenid, Greek City States, Macedon + Successors, Indian, Thracian, Skythian. Plus Romans if you want

I was thinking back to the first Rome Total War game 
I think they will definately move on to Imperial Rome as a priority.

[Corso]

Looks interesting   

[Maniac]

Looks cool... I wonder if they'll ever make a "Hellenistic" edition of SAGA? Or if the game mechanics would even work for it...

I've always wanted a Saga with focus around the Trojan War, but hoplite era skirmishes would be nice too.

Age of Magic will have to work in a pinch I suppose.

[Frostie]

I have very large 15mm armies for this period, how would they work? Never played SAGA

[Ogrob]

I have very large 15mm armies for this period, how would they work? Never played SAGA

Probably a pretty easy mod. Saga only uses four measurements: Very Short (2"), Short (4"), Medium (6") and Long (12"). Terrain rules and line of sight are two dimensional, not true line of sight. You could probably play with 15mm models and use the same distances as above on a regular size table (Standard for saga is 4x3' for some reason) or halve the distances on a smaller board just fine.

[monkeylite]

Probably a pretty easy mod. Saga only uses four measurements: Very Short (2"), Short (4"), Medium (6") and Long (12"). Terrain rules and line of sight are two dimensional, not true line of sight. You could probably play with 15mm models and use the same distances as above on a regular size table (Standard for saga is 4x3' for some reason) or halve the distances on a smaller board just fine.

Yeah, I think it would go pretty smoothly except the biggest issue with Saga, istm, is the basing. It works best with individually based figures or sabot bases. If you have 10 figures to a base, or similar then you'd need some sort of record keeping, which can sometimes get fiddly. Also spreading out to cover lots of ground, and/or fitting into small gaps, can sometimes be useful in Saga, so that might be an issue, too.