SAGA Predicts the Coming of Northern Fury
March 16, 2012 by brennon
SAGA is one of those games that I have been really wanting to pick up, and making it more enticing is some more news on their Northern Fury expansion published by Gripping Beast...
The Northern Fury expansion allows you to play as Anglo-Saxon, Breton, Jomsvikings & Scots on top of the original four factions for the game. The 3rd of April is the release date for this, including new battleboards, multiplayer scenarios and other neat stuff. Also if you pre-order you could get your hands on this guy...
If you pre-order then you get your hands on the Scots Warlord (free I might add!) And that's a pretty awesome model.
Will you get involved in the Northern Fury?
I will definitely be picking this expansion up when it is released. SAGA is an excellent gaming system which will hopefully gain a greater following as time continues to roll on.
I’ve been tempting to buy this as it seem to be a really interesting game, but have been put off by custom dice required for play. I know you can make them with paper clue ins, but I appreciate the real thing. Maybe it would have been simpler if you would need only one set of custom dice, not a custom set for every faction of the game.
You don’t need custom dice to play the game. You can use simple d6 and just assign the numbers to a particular icon. The custom dice are – for all intents and purposes – more of a vanity item and just a ‘good’ gaming aid.
Also with this expansion, the Anglo-Saxons use the same dice as the Anglo-Danes. The JomsViking are the same as the Viking ones, Breton the same as Norman and the Scot the same as the Welsh.
So at least they have made it so you don’t need more and more dice.
BoW Ben
The Scots have new dice. I don’t get why people always moan about the dice, there are plenty of ways to play without them. If anybody wants boards for D6 let me know and I can email them to you.
Ah yes you are right, Scots are the only faction with new dice. I went looking for the original rulebook yesterday and sadly they had sold out of it in my local store. I am really stoked to try this game out when I finish off my Warhammer Dwarf army lol.
Looks a lot of fun and from the batreps I have read on the Tomahawk Studios forum it plays incredibly well with lots of narrative and heroic moments.
BoW Ben