Gripping Beast have put together one of their first Starter Warbands for you to pick up for SAGA II and their Age Of Crusades supplement. Here we have The Ordenstaat, the Teutonic Knights.

Gripping Beast are going to bringing a new plastic kit to Salute this year. Here we have the Late Roman Heavy Cavalry, perfect for riding down the flank of your army and crushing the enemies of the Empire!

Available over on the Gripping Beast webstore, you can get your hands on the new rules for Swordpoint which bring in Chariot Army Period forces into play.

Riding into battle to support your Dark Age and Arthurian-era armies we have the Dark Age Cavalry from Gripping Beast.

Lloyd gushes over news of SAGA 2nd Edition and Ben loses his mind over some stunning minis.

A new edition of the popular game SAGA is on the way in 2018 from the folks at Studio Tomahawk.

Gripping Beast has added another Pagan Priest to their collection for you to consider dropping into your games of SAGA. Here is the Blind Seer & His Boy.

We've got some mega-prizes for you this weekend as we talk Guild Ball and Mantic's Warpath...

Gripping Beasts has some exciting releases coming just in time for Salute.

To be released at Salute 2017 the Gripping Beast warband have put together a new Swordpoint book covering Classical Armies and fighting with them on the tabletop.

Some new plastic Dark Age Archers are coming to Salute from Gripping Beast. You can see a sample of them here, bows at the ready to take out their foes from range.

We've got some great hobby chat for you today and a look at some amazing community projects too.

Footsore Miniatures has put together three new SAGA warbands for you to snap up as you head out to do battle in Aetius & Arthur.

We're getting stuck into some chatter about where we stand on the Historical front when it comes to tabletop gaming and some of the projects that might feature for use here at BoW.

Tis the season for many things and Gripping Beast makes an announcement about the cost of doing business.

Gripping Beasts along with Studio Tomahawk have up for pre-order the new SAGA supplement, SAGA Aetius & Arthur!

Gripping Beast has now added the Dark Age Armies supplement for Swordpoint to their webstore for you to pre-order.

With the new Arthurian SAGA rules on the way from Gripping Beast and Studio Tomahawk, we're going to be seeing new warbands taking to the field of battle thanks to Footsore Miniatures.

Giving us some more information about the world of Aetius & Arthur Studio Tomahawk put together some new previews of the upcoming book.

If you're looking for an alternative ruleset for playing out your Ancient and Medieval battles then how about the new Swordpoint Rulebook which is up for pre-order by Gripping Beast?

Join us for an awesome Weekender where we have plenty of competitions AND some great interviews for you too.

Studio Tomahawk has put together a preview for their upcoming supplement to SAGA called Aetius & Arthur where they'll be heading back into the Arthurian period for some bloody battles.

Studio Tomahawk has released some information for a new campaign booklet for SAGA.

Gripping Beast has recently added a new character to their roster for use in SAGA. Charlemagne, Emperor of the West looks set to lead armies to war.

Gripping Beast have added two new models to their roster for Salute 2016. If you're looking to carry the banner into battle for SAGA: The Crescent & The Cross then these two warriors will be a good fit in your army.

Gripping Beast have shared two more of their character models coming to Salute this year for SAGA. We have both holy men and warriors who might share some of the aspects of each other hitting the tabletop.

Gripping Beast are going to be running a Swordpoint demo at Salute 2016 (next week people!). This is a rules set which allows you to play out big battles from the Ancient, Dark Age and Medieval periods of history...

Gripping Beast have revealed more of a look inside the pages of SAGA: Age Of The Wolf which is going to be there way of playing out campaigns within the world of the Dark Ages.

Sit back and relax, it's The Weekender XLBS. We have some really interesting topics this week including Games Workshop's move to board games and a rather fantastic collection of Star Wars miniatures.

Coming to Salute 2016 we have a whole bunch of additional SAGA miniatures from Gripping Beast. Leading the way into the battle and standing by their Warlords we have these War Banner Bearers for the factions featured in the second book...

Gripping Beast have shown off the 3-Ups for their Late Roman Legions which will be the next big plastic release from them. See what you think of them, painted up by Darren Linington...

Three New Priests have been shown off by Gripping Beast for the world of SAGA. Each of these will be available from the middle of February. As you can see we have a Pagan Priest, a Christian Priest and a Muslim Priest for the basic SAGA and The Crescent & The Cross...

Gripping Beast have shown off two more characters from the Crusading era that you will be able to pick up next year for SAGA: The Crescent & The Cross. See what you think of both El Cid and Peter The Hermit that were previewed over on social media...

Gripping Beast have bought together four more Gladiators for you to send out onto the sands of the arena in Jugula. The new Familia Three are armed and dangerous but you will have to train them to kill with their mix of weapons...

Gripping Beast is bringing us a new warband for SAGA The Crescent & The Cross. Here comes the Knights!

Gripping Beast are making the new Plastic 4pt Warbands for SAGA available on November 16th but they will be on sale at the Reading Warfare show over the 14th and 15th if you'd like to get a head start on the building of a new warband to raid the Dark Ages with...

Phew it's been quite a weekend. With that in mind sit back and relax with us as we chill for The Weekender XLBS...

Gripping Beast have now released their warband featuring a young Harald Hardrada and his Varangian Guard. They come with an assortment of weapon options including regular Sword & Shield and Dane Axes too...

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