The Guns of August Convention is one my favorite local cons in a good location that my whole family enjoys. I was able to take the kids to Busch Gardens
in the day and play SAGA all night so
everybody was happy. The SAGA Tournament
was 4 point armies and run by the Williamsburg Legati. I cannot say enough good things about the
Williamburg Legati they are a super bunch of guys who really know how to run a
tournament. They had Architects of War
support and everything a gamer needs provided on the table.
At the tournament I was running Welsh: 1 Levy and the rest
Warriors. I had one unit of mounted
Welsh Warriors.
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| Battle with Skraelings |
My first game was against Mark Mckinley a Skraelings player
and all around great guy. I had never
played the Skraelings before and was not sure what to expect. It started out with missile exchanges
because the Skrealings are just like the Welsh and "Throw Sticks" the
only difference is all his troops are one less armor. So we were winning the exchange and Mark's
horrible dice were not helping him. I
was killing tons of Skraelings but little did I know these guys have an ability
to regenerate dead skraelings into new units so it was like fighting a zombie
horde. My thought now was the only way
to stop the zombies is to kill the warlord.
I got lucky with the initiative roll and had two turns that were back to
back and mark could not recover from that and I was able to ride the Cavalry
to the back and kill his warlord. I
killed 27 warriors 6 Levy and his Warlord so going into round two I had a lot
of points.
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