Collecting a Saracen Army for Saga

[Chris Abbey]

Hi James,

Good to hear from you. Thank you very much. Crusades are my new period for 2014, I like to have a new project each year and spend about half the gaming time playing in the new period, and half the time playing in the periods that I have collected over the decades. It does not always work as their are always minor projects that deviate me off that path. My new approach to periods is to start at skirmish level and build up to unit based games over the year, so for Crusades we have started with Saga and when I have enough figures will be able to use them for Piquet, Deus Vult and Hail Caesar depending who I'm playing (Lewis likes Piquet, Nick thinks it unfair if the Impetus Clock goes against him!). I'm basing all figures individually on magnetic bases and then making steel vinyl lined movement trays to suit different rule systems.

Saw your post about your Crusades game. That looks awesome, look forward to seeing it at Fiasco, which will be first show Sally 4th has a trade stand at.

Cheers,

Chris

[Argonor]

Sounds like a sound approach. Starting out by planning a full battle-scale army often spells doom for a project (at least for me), whereas painting smaller warbands one at a time - making it possible to switch between projects and still getting something on the table - makes painting much more manageable.

[olicana]

Excellent. I'll see you at Fiasco then. We can talk about Piquet using dominoes. We've found it works very well indeed.

James

[Chris Abbey]

Hi James,

I'm intrigued. Look forward to seeing you and hearing about it at Fiasco. I had been thinking of making either a set of cards or chits numbered 1 - 20 to draw from which I thought might reduce swings in impetus.

Chris