At long last, the scenery I bought two years ago at Reading made it to the games table yesterday evening.
Coupled with a shrine on a small island connected by a bridge, the table was set for a clash between two rival buntai factions of six figures each.
Andy and Stuart's samurai arrived by a couple of newly-painted watari bune (river ferries) acquired from Oshiro Model Terrain.
David and James' samurai prepared for action.
The buntai were quickly engaged.
First blood to David and James.
I introduced a climbing rule for the figures to clamber up and down the terrain - failure was rolling 1 on a D6. Stuart's comedy character failed this a couple of times, ending up lying stunned and wounded at the bottom of a small cliff.
The Ronin rules and their use of attack and defence combat tokens went down very well. Inevitably, a lot of the critical wounds were the result of attacker and defender getting extreme rolls, but there were combats that took several rounds where figures were stunned or lightly wounded, and continued the fight. We thought though that we would modify the climbing rule to slow armoured characters and allow unarmoured figures to continue into combat.
Eventually, just two of David's and one of James' figures were the last men standing - bloodied but victorious.
Coupled with a shrine on a small island connected by a bridge, the table was set for a clash between two rival buntai factions of six figures each.
Andy and Stuart's samurai arrived by a couple of newly-painted watari bune (river ferries) acquired from Oshiro Model Terrain.
David and James' samurai prepared for action.
The buntai were quickly engaged.
First blood to David and James.
I introduced a climbing rule for the figures to clamber up and down the terrain - failure was rolling 1 on a D6. Stuart's comedy character failed this a couple of times, ending up lying stunned and wounded at the bottom of a small cliff.
The Ronin rules and their use of attack and defence combat tokens went down very well. Inevitably, a lot of the critical wounds were the result of attacker and defender getting extreme rolls, but there were combats that took several rounds where figures were stunned or lightly wounded, and continued the fight. We thought though that we would modify the climbing rule to slow armoured characters and allow unarmoured figures to continue into combat.
Eventually, just two of David's and one of James' figures were the last men standing - bloodied but victorious.
