Reply To: Saga… why?

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Why does Beasts of War OnTableTop love the game and yet not have a Let’s Play?

I have asked this question before and it isn’t really that contentious. It seems to be that with a busy schedule it’s difficult to find time to add a Let’s Play for a game that is already well established. The version 2 rules coming out was a potential time to make a Let’s Play relevant and schedule worthy, but sadly this too was missed.

The best way to get a Let’s Play scheduled is as part of a week devoted to your game and have a nice focused blast of faction talks and a Let’s Play introduced like Frostgrave recently, like Blood and Plunder, like several Infinity weeks and Guildball to name but a few.

This takes creator input and Studio Tomahawk are just not that interested or good at this side of their marketing. It’s not just a language barrier thing (as they are a French company), but it feels like a focus thing too. i.e. There have been drops in availability of their dice, which for a newbie with a little cash to spare is a huge easy money spinner, but they allowed this money to slip through their fingers and got a poor name for themselves distribution wise.

The studio works with Gripping Beast to promote and sell their products in the UK, but don’t appear that interested in the kind of big push forward that a week on the top show covering the hobby would give to them.

I tried to get involved because Richard Keenan (Saga tournament organiser working with, rather than for, Gripping Beast) spoke with me at one of my first trips to Salute. Richard was very keen on organising a weekend tournament in Coleraine and was likely to be able to get his travel and board paid for as part of his remit of spreading the tournament scene and promoting the game. I shared his details with Beasts of War and they did get in touch with one another. To make it a full bootcamp though there would have needed to have been approval / support from the creators of the game and things fell down somewhere.

This isn’t meant to be a huge dig at the studio. They have created a fun game and I love the OnTableTop style of Let’s Play and I just want to see the two united in one great video.

Never say never, but it will take some extra effort from parties outside of OnTableTop HQ to get Saga played as a Let’s Play… and it doesn’t feel like that’s about to be forthcoming overnight.