{"id":308,"date":"2013-04-11T10:59:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T09:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/partridges.org.uk\/?p=308"},"modified":"2013-04-11T10:59:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T09:59:24","slug":"saga-and-saga-dice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/11\/saga-and-saga-dice\/","title":{"rendered":"Saga and Saga dice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tried two more games of Saga while on holiday up in Wales (my second and third) and really enjoying it as a skirmish game that really fits with its period. Bit worried about the forthcoming Byzantine list and also the heroes of the Viking age &#8211; would Athelstan have really trolled around with a 40 strong army? And certainly you shouldn&#8217;t be trying to model an Imperial Byzantine army with it. But it looks and feels right as a European Dark Age skirmish game for a period where many of the battles were just skirmishes. Hopefully they extend it bsck to the Volksvanderung era and Arthur, because it would fit that perfectly.<br \/>\nAnyway, I decided that trying to use normal dice as Saga dice wss adding another level of confusion to my overloaded brain, so I made some myself with the symbols from the Saga forum and some blank dice from blankdice.co.uk. 32 Saga dice for about a tenner in total. And they don&#8217;t look too bad? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wpid-20130410_072411.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"20130410_072411.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wpid-20130410_072411.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tried two more games of Saga while on holiday up in Wales (my second and third) and really enjoying it as a skirmish game that really fits with its period. Bit worried about the forthcoming Byzantine list and also the heroes of the Viking age &#8211; would Athelstan have really trolled around with a 40 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/11\/saga-and-saga-dice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saga and Saga dice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wargaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}