• Saga Suitable Miniature Display As part of the Saga Demonstration and Participation table at Little Wars Melbourne we will be displaying Saga suitable miniatures from: 1st Corps Aventine Miniatures  Bad Squiddo Games Conquest Games Crusader Miniatures Drabant Eureka Miniatures Fireforge Games Footsore Miniatures Gorgon Studios Gripping Beast Magister Militum Newline Designs Old Glory UK Shieldwall Miniatures…

  • First experiences with Sage Age of Magic. Last weekend I was lucky enough to get in a few games of Saga Age of Magic. The first was an 8 point game at my local club, Nunawading Wargaming Association. Brought along my old WHFB Beastmen and Dwarves ready to play as The Horde and Masters of…

  • I am organising the Saga demo and participation games at Little Wars Melbourne 2019. Together with other Saga players from the East, West and South of Melbourne, we will be offering a taste of Saga to any who are interested to give it a go. Saga is an historically flavoured skirmish game published by Tomahawk…

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    Click https://www.facebook.com/NWAGames/ for the NWA public page, where you can find out about upcoming events involving NWA and where the public can ask questions and find out about the club. Click https://www.facebook.com/groups/nwa.members/ for the members Facebook group which is very active. This is for members to organise games and post photos of club meetings and what they are playing,…

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    Download the free Army List generator in Excel for Sword & Spear, a game for Ancient and Medieval combat by Polkovnik Productions and published by Great Excape Games. Updated to version 2.01 and enhanced by NWA member John Shaw. You can also download the PDF army lists in case you want to print and do…

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    The Vikings that established themselves in Eastern Europe were known as the Rus. They established a expanding kingdom that eventually became Russia. The Rus have some interesting abilities on the “Battle Board” with great names such as “Biting Like Wolves” and “Endless Wastes”.

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    Saga is a game for playing Dark Age battles. The initially released armies and army lists centred around the British Isles and nearby countries. The main rules included Vikings, Anglo-Danish, Normans and Welsh. Due to the popularity of the game, Anglo-Saxons, Bretons, Jomsvikings and Scots were added in a supplement called “Northern Fury”.

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    More than once at recent club meetings, I have received compliments on my painting abilities and the presentation of my armies; thank you once again for all those kind words. It’s only once I talk to the person paying the compliment that the problems start, I mention that they can paint as well as me…

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    1949 Secrets of the Third Reich, SOTR for short, is the 28mm Weird World War Two miniature game from West Wind Productions. Players field armies of a Platoon of troops backed up by a variety of support units and led by daring heroes. As well as traditional infantry and vehicles, armies can include super-science, walking…

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    Convoy to Arkangelsk, Summer, 1942. It was just after half way through the year of ’42 when the convoy set forth from Scotland, bound to bring aid to our Russian allies. Only a small convoy was able to be formed from the available merchant ships as many were not ready in time. The dockyards were working…

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    Last Saturday, we here at NWA in Melbourne had a visit from Mal Wright of Adelaide, who brought with him a demo of his forthcoming module in his WW2 convoy series which deals with Japanese convoys in the Pacific. This is an add-on to a system he has already had published. Mal is a prolific rules…

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    With two opposing fleets assembling amongst the Pacific islands, both sides were probing for weaknesses. Neither fleet was yet ready to take on the other, but they were keen to gain moral advantage before the oncoming battle. Two cruiser forces were on intersecting courses. A British cruiser force was heading east, patrolling a line past which…