SAGA: Age of Alexander

[Koyote]

Studio Tomahawk has released it’s first teaser shots of an Age of Alexander play test game. Macedonians vs …? Indians?

[Ish]

I’m really hoping we see Judeans in either Age of Alexander or Age of Caesar.

I’d love to spend Hanukkah nights with my daughters recreating the Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Empire. 

[Koyote]

The book cover (in French) has been released on Facebook along with a few pages (all in French).

New warbands: Greek Cities, Persians, Thracians, Macedonians, Indians, and Successors.

 

[Koyote]

I watched the Saga Thorsday Patreon sneak peak of Age of Alexander.

The Greeks are divided into 4 sub-factions, each with their own troop selection table and special rules. The Greek sub-factions are Athenians, Spartans, Thebans, and Thessalians.

There are two sub factions of Persians. As expected they can take Elephants. They get new chariot types and Greek mercenary hoplites. They also get a special combined arms units (armed with bows but suffer no armor penalty AND can close ranks).

Macedonians have one flavor, but lots of choices and a strong combined-arms board.

Successors come in 3 varieties which determine troop types -Greek, Asian, and Egyptians. You also pick you warlord’s ambition/motivation (3 choices) which gives your battleboard different buffs. Also, armored elephants (armor 5).

Thracians have access to heavy weapons (rhomphaias) and a mechanic similar to the Gauls’ fervor.

Indians have tons of options and unusual basic Saga abilities. You can put your warlord in a heavy chariot (12 attack dice in charge) or on an armored elephant (with armor 5/4 and Resilience 3). Battleboard has elephant buffs.