Write Your Own SAGA With The Steppe Tribe Warbands
August 27, 2013 by brennon
Gripping Beast have put together the Steppe Tribe Warband for your games of SAGA. If you manage to pick up the battleboard from Wargames Illustrated 311 then you now have the models to match.
In the set you get your hands on lots of mounted Hearthguard, Warriors and one of the Warlords available from their reinforcements section of the website.
This looks like it will play a very different game to the other warbands out there and bring an interesting amount of ranged combat options with their warriors.
The Dark Age really is taking off as a historical period to game in and SAGA is a firm favourite. I just wish enough people around me played it!
Will you take to the Steppes?
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Riders are rather nice but horses are not very good. No one seems to get horses right.
if your main objection is the size, then these are correct and to scale for the time and place.
From my understanding (and I might be wrong) I think they rode horses or indeed ponies that were a lot smaller in stature than the horses we’re used to seeing. Would I be right on that?
I understand that was the case for the Scandinavians too.
BoW Ben
Yes they look correct.
AFAIK the nomadic tribes still ride a type of horse similar to Przewalski’s Horse
And since I had to google because I can never spell it more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_horse
Some pics
http://www.asia-insider-photos.com/mongolian-horses.html
They are going to be interesting to play with and against. Horse archer armies are difficult to deal with in most games/rules and they tend to be a bit on the cheesy side but Saga being played on a small table with objectives should even things up.
Pure assumption of course, I haven’t seen their battleboard yet . I’m off to town to see if it’s in.
Is it in? Is it …………………