Scots Faction Review with Jeremy! SAGA THORSDAY 111

[@elliotttriebenbacher6831]

Great video! One important note: page 26 of the rulebook stipulates that factions are always rounded up, meaning that if you have a 7-strong unit like you all discuss with Long Spears, you'll actually round up the amount of dice you can discard. Therefore Long Spears alone can put you at more defense dice than attack dice for Beyond the Wall.

[@RodgeRules]

Thanks for chiming in, Elliott!

[@garymilton4448]

Had my first game using the Scots tonight after watching this video. Got a 18 - 8 win vs Anglo Danes. Had two big combo opportunities, both worked brilliantly, the second killing his Warlord. No Respite is just brilliant. My go to ability when I get a stag. Thanks both again. My Scots have their mojo back!

[@RodgeRules]

This is awesome, Gary!! Glad to help out!

[@Dave_Angel]

The chicken is a Black Grouse or a Capercaille.

[@ostrowulf]

Historically speaking the Scotts come from what is now Ireland. Durring the Roman era it was the Picts in modern Scotland.

[@danielflenley195]

The consensus among most historians of late Iron Age to early Middle Ages Scotland now is that the Gaels of Dál Riata where likely actually indigenous to western Scotland, James E. Frasers “From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795” among other recent works, highlights that all archeological and lingo-historical evidence suggests that if any large migratory waves occurred, rathernot just cultural and linguistic transfer due to close proximity, trade, intermarriage etc, it was actually from Dal Riata into Ul Neiil in North Eastern Ireland.

[@GaryArkham]

I'd love to watch an Irish faction review. They're pretty weird. Loving the SAGA content!

[@RodgeRules]

Hi Gary! I'd love to do one for 2nd ed some day!

[@panwojtek5361]

No chance for almost 32 "A" dice in mentioned example I think. You can't have more than double "A" dice than in step 2, so you can't use Long Spears for 4HG and have more than 8 "A" at the end. For 12 HG you can have 24 "A" max, using Long Spears and Counter.

[@RodgeRules]

Good catch!

[@EpicTabletop]

Nice one. I do play Scots as well, I am still fresh when it comes to SAGA - but my dudes do have 'tartan' :). Not all of them of course... BTW tartan most definitively existed in the dark age. Scottish clan association with it did not. This happened after battle of Culloden 1745 (not straight away of course...), when English outlawed all "highland stuff". Cheers for this awesome review!

[@RodgeRules]

Thanks for watching Berdysz and thanks for the tidbit about the tartan! Very interesting!

[@garymilton4448]

Great video. Thank you both for doing this. I played Scots in v1 Saga, but haven’t done much of v2. At first look I thought the battle board had lost ‘something’ compared to v1, but this video is a big help in seeing past that. I’ll probably watch again and make notes! One noob question, regarding Reach ability. Can/do you need to activate with a Saga dice first from the top row of the battle board? So can I activate, say 1 hearthguard and 2 warrior units, move them all forward, and then use Reach? Or do I have to use Reach first? Oh, it’s not a chicken, but likely a quail or partridge!

[@RodgeRules]

Thanks Gary! Answering your question, you don't have to activate prior to Reach if you don't want to. Reach just offers a nice side bonus of not generating a fatigue if it is a second or third activation. If you were to use Reach first and THEN move, for example, you would get a fatigue after moving. Just something to keep in mind!

[@garymilton4448]

Thanks.

[@ostrowulf]

As Gary says, quail. But chicken makes an ammusing mocking name for it. Ooo, using your chickens I see, and I don't mean your hearthguard this time.

[@macca-of1yc]

Great review thanks for this, im just getting into SAGA as normans.

[@RodgeRules]

Thanks m1acca1551! The Normans are great! You'll have fun with them! :)

[@ostrowulf]

Good thing you are coming into in in 2ed. The Normans in 1st ed were an orriginal faction before they knew how to ballance cavalry, and unfortunately they were an extreemly weak faction (I had a decent list that requires using William the Bastard). Now things are MUCH better.

[@macca-of1yc]

@@ostrowulf is there much variation with lists or it pretty much 1 or 2 combos and thats it?

[@ostrowulf]

Rodge has a video on 2.0 Normans. It has been a while since I saw that one, but that would be where I would start for that. There are options, especially as they combined Brettons and Normans to one board. Normans have two things mainly, cavalry and archerers. So the balance of those, and any infantry you may decide to throw in to hold points are really the options. I do not have as much experience with 2.0 unfortunately, but crossbows were hit and miss as to usefulness and from what experience I have that still stands.

[@bryanubaghs406]

Noob question: Blood Rage has great miniatures. Anyone know if they'd work for Saga? Thanks!

[@RodgeRules]

Probably better for Age of Magic but the historical Saga players I have met are not really picky as long as they can tell what is what (warriors vs hearthguard basically)

[@bryanubaghs406]

@@RodgeRules Makes sense. Just getting into tabletop gaming at age 51 and Saga looks like a decent and fairly simple rule set. I'll keep watching your demos. Thanks!