As indicated in the last blog we wanted to try a Viking “Saga” style game. The Viking army list that we used is attached: VIKINGS

Feel free to comment and suggestions. I will add more fantasy aspects like Frost giants and trolls and various Norse Gods and mythology down the track.

We wanted to keep things simple and small scale while we were still learning the subtleties of the rules so we opted for armies that consisted of 1 Rare, 2 Uncommon and 5 Common models.

David K had a hero, 2 Berserkers, 2 Bondi archers and 3 Bondi warriors. David S had a hero, 1 Dvergar weaponsmith, 1 Hearthguard 2 Bondi archers and 3 Bondi warriors, so the armies were very similar.

The choice of stances was interesting, with us initially choosing between “attack” and “balanced” with the occasional “defensive” (so we could shoot) whilst we moved closer.

These changed to us genrally alternating between “all out attack” and “densive” when we moved into close combat range.

First blood to David S as a Bondi warrior goes down from long range shooting. We found that long range shooting was ineffective.

Hero, Weaponsmith, Hearthguard and Bondi warrior of David S move forward with the protection of the nearby trees. The weaponsmith has forged  a magic +1 sword for the Hearthguard.

Two more of David K’s warriors fall to close range shooting as the battle starts to heat up.

The tide is about to turn as an archer of David S “bites the dust”.

Close combat everywhere.

Despite the odds being in favour of David S the Gods had turned against him.

With only his hero left David S fails his army morale roll and the battle is lost.

The “stunned” hero falls back.

The victorius hero.

The turn mechanisms went very well and once we became familiar went very quickly. Shooting at long range was ineffective but was much more deadly at short range which was as it should have been. We hope to try more troop types and weapons over the next few weeks to see how it goes. At the moment we are loving it.

A very neat and compact game system that plays quickly and provides the odd quirk to make things interesting – such as a Bondi Warrior easily standing up to my hero!!!