SAG in 2019

We had a pretty good year, though I didn't manage to post as many blog entries for the club as I had planned. Hopefully I'll manage better next year.

We played a great deal of L'Art de la Guerre, Saga, Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game, Frostgrave, Napoleon at War, Test of Honor, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, and Bataille Empire.  We also tried Cruel Seas and Black Seas.  We even managed to play a little Flames of War and some Team Yankee, as well as true 'old school' games like TSR's Battlesystem and Space: 1889 Soldier's Companion. Our associated club, YHP Bolt Action, played a great deal of Bolt Action and Konflict '47.

Our roleplaying group completed the Saltmarsh saga for AD&D 2nd edition, culminating with  a huge Battlesystem battle over the town of Saltmarsh.  Right after we finished that campaign, Wizards of the Coast published Ghosts of Saltmarsh, which kinda figures.

We finished up the year prepping for a new escalation campaign, for Kings of War 3rd edition, which we are starting in January. We started a L'Art de la Guerre campaign, Ad Imperii, which you will see more of on the blog as each turn results will be shared here.

Hopefully, we'll do better on putting up blog entries this year. I especially want to do some highlight specific club members armies, many of our club members are outstanding painters and this is the perfect place to showcase their work.

Below are some pictures from our 2019 games!

Heroes battle the Tree of the Dead and its undead minions in the Cemetery of Sleepy Hollow during our
Headless Horseman Frostgrave mini campaign.

The Headless Horseman is surrounded and trapped in the Western Woods at the climax
of the Headless Horseman Frostgrave campaign.

Necromunda!

The Necromunda guys preparing to take their vicious gangs onto the board...

ADLG, Germans versus Hussites!

The SAG roleplaying group prepares to defend Saltmarsh from
Ken, running the sea monsters and pirates!

Pirates and sea monsters battle the townsfolk throughout Saltmarsh!

Pirates come ashore from their galley.

Chris and Matt play Kill Team: Arena.

Egyptians and Israelis battle it out in a Flames of War fight.

Erik prepares for his game as Jake and Chuck ponder their ADLG moves. 

At Your Hobby Place-Fredericksburg, the YHP-Bolt Action club refights the Battle of Arnhem in Bolt Action.

Saga Normans advance over the hills and through the fields...

In an Age of Sigmar battle using old school Warhammer figures, Lizardmen and Elves battle to control the holy ruins. 

Ren, Eric, and Wayne consider the battle on Arnhem Bridge.

Victorious Germans pour across the bridge.

Chris and Ken fight the Assault of Melas Thirytis on Mars,
using Space:1889 Soldier's Companion rules.

A fight at the gates between warbands in
Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game: Battle Companies

Wargs, orcs, an Men of Gondor fight over an isolated farmstead.

Puzzling over the Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game: Battle Companies rules.

Age of Sigmar & Team Yankee

This past Friday was another well attended SAG game night, with a Team Yankee game, our ongoing Age of Sigmar Escalation Campaign, and a Konig’s Krieg French & Indian War battle.

It was a rare NATO win in Team Yankee, as Ren’s American armor company and John’s French cavalry company took on Jake and Wayne’s Russian T-72 company.

For once, Ren’s M1 Abram’s lived up to the hype and slaughtered the opposing Russian armor. 

In the Age of Sigmar we ran 1500 point games.  Jason’s undead Legions of Nagash clashed with Chris’s orcs on a grassy plain dotted with ruins.

Jason managed to grab the victory.

Meanwhile, my Seraphon lizardmen were faced off against Buck’s Eldar Daughters of Khaine on a gloomy plain dotted with ruins.  The gloom was so thick that visibility was limited to 6”, which severely limited the options of my skinks. Still, my Chameleon Skinks managed to sneak up on his cavalry, and get off a couple devastating volleys, allowing me to grab an early lead in points, which despite the ferocious hand to hand abilities of his Sisters, Buck was never quite able overcome.  I was very happy with the performance of my home-built, kit-bashed Bastiladon.

Ken played the British against Eric’s French, both with Indian allies in a gorgeous looking 28mm Koenig’s Krieg game. I wish I could have watched more of that one, I love the period and want to give the game system a try. Ken's Brits took the win.