The grizzled veteran of countless battles looked down, he sensed what was coming. Every nerve and sinew was ready. Olaf Kristoffenrage glared at the newcomer to the table.” Whaaaaaaat!? You expect me to pay to play here?” ‘Please leave, ‘the wiry shop assistant barked…. So ended the inaugaural Friday meeting of the Cardiff Toy Spartans Saga demonstration team.
Dan was new to Saga and brought his newly painted Welsh force. Javelins take some getting use to but they can proove deadly. We were defending a small farm and were intent on making Chris’ Normans pay as they charged. Chris wasn’t going to charge, the table was six inches too wide and so as Dan had not played before, Chris decided to advance his troops forward so the newbie would be pounced upon as soon as possible. Three inches is not to be sniffed at when playing at this level of course. We put our archers in the manor and the rough ground. Chris explained deployment to us and then remembered that he had not meant to deploy where he had deployed and then redeployed. Unfortunately , Chris had not measured the distance between the two forces and so sportingly he moved the whole wood forward as his Norman crossbowmen advanced over what would have been open ground.
Dan began our advance with our javelinmen in the centre. Chris promptly suggested a way in which we could use more dice to be less effective at shooting and become ” fatigued”. At this point the store manager arrived to eject our host for the ” crime” of not paying for the table. Broken Britain I hear you say! I was hooked, I went straight home and used the rest of Friday evening to paint my first warlord for SAGA. Please come and join us on a Friday evening. Oh God please join us…..I’m begging you….
Fired up and back into painting, I remembered some rather lovely Steelfist Miniatures I had bought a few months ago. The old saying is of course that there is nothing so dangerous as an officer with a map…Old copies of Vae Victis provided the debris on the floor. I thought these two might be very indecisive commanders or they may just have looted Rome? Hopefully L’art de la Guerre Renaissance will be out very soon and we shall find out. Hope you like them.
See you at Firestorm Games, Trade Street Cardiff😳
Despertaferres 
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