"Multi Player Saga games, do they work?" Topic

I'm really looking forward to the Saga Crusades rulebook.
Just wondering how multi Player Saga games go. 4-6players?
Do they work okay or do they bog down? Any house rules?

I think they work fine. We often do 4 player games with each player controlling a 4-6 point band with their own dice and battle board. We will sometimes alternate by sides and sometimes by warband, rolling a die or drawing a card to determine activation order. Doing the latter adds some uncertainty, but does require a bit of flexibility with regard to the orders phase abilities. I've also done multiplayer scenario games with multiple independent missions/objectives and had that work fine.

One thing I like about Saga for multiple players is that it seems to handle uneven numbers nicely. You can easily play two smaller bands against a single larger one (using the large band rules in the book). The smaller bands benefit from more command dice and more access to the limited use saga abilities. The larger bands have less dice, but are much more resilient with larger units and more redundancy in the number of units to generate Saga dice.

One of the guys in our club ran a multiplayer SAGA game at our gaming convention and it works great . if you can take 6 or 8 people who've never played the game before and throw them in and they have fun and figure out the game by the end of a three hour session , then you know you have a good game .