10mm Samurai Army Pics

10mm Ashigaru

10mm Ashigaru Tempo

10mm Ninja

10mm Ronin

10mm Takeda Command

Ashigaru and command

10mm Samurai

10mm Samurai Cavalry

10mm Ashigaru Yami

10mm Samurai dismounted

10mm Samurai mounted

Sub commands

10mm Samurai "Ninja & Command stands"

         I am all be completed now for HMGS' Fall In, Warmaster tourney. The only missing item is the Foxes. They are still with the commission girl.

         The general and another sub commander. The general is the Castle Arts box set. The base and pole and flock are all included. The sticker/transfer sheet was a separate item. I got all (everything) when I bought out the store's stock upon closing.

         Two units of Ninja. The Ninja have the Gut Runner rule. Where they can deploy anywhere in terrain from reserve. That is why you see them in the Bamboo.

        Frank has mentioned that his Samurai may be done by summer. If so we will have to try and get a game in with Ancients rules and another with modified Killer Katanas. If I continue to paint Samurai and Frank loans out his, maybe I will run a Samurai game at HistoriCon 2020.

Warmaster Weekend "Flock Box"

         Tuffs can get expensive real fast. One, two, five on a base. You got 30 plus dudes. That is about two packs at 8-ish bucks. After years of buy tuffs, one day I did the math. I got me one of those flock box things.

         Mostly I have been making tuffs with it. They are nothing special, wax paper, white glue, and static grass. I did try out the tuff guide. The wooden ruler you drill holes in of various sizes to get tuff that stand straight up. That was as deep as I went. Until this year, I added a dollar store strainer. With the strainer hooked up you can flock areas and do tuffs faster.

Lessons Learned.

1.) The other thing you need is a lady's sock or stockin. Then grab the Vac's hose and put the sock dude over the end. You will save 80% of the grass thrown all over the place. The shit goes every where.

2.) You will notice a rubber band. Don't be me. I failed to hold on and right in the vacuum went my grass. Sucks bad, you ain't fish that out. 

3.) Also tie a knott in the end that gets sucked down the hose. A hole in the bottom, well your buying more grass.

What does all this got to do with Warmaster? I flocked my army.

 Every stand is doubled based. 90% on Shogun magnetic bases. This time they sit on the flat movement trays. The two circles with dice are awaiting the foxes from the commission girl.

 The general's base in WIP and 2 units Ashigaru. (The Ashigaru got finished.)

So more Samurai on the sticks and Ninjas getting based. I should finish the Ninja and the General tomorrow.

          Shogun minis makes any base you can dream of, custom cut movement trays, and the dude delivers with Amazon speed. <3 days!

HMGS' Fall In Warmaster tourney list

         The Warmaster Tourney is on Friday. After registration you need to contact the TO at; the.epic.gamer@gmail.com for a spot. You will also need to turn in your list. The slots are filling fast. There is a questioning shit show of a process to get more tables. So get going!

        I will be playing Samurai, using the new draft v2 list. 22 units, with the "feudal rule" my break is 10.
My list;

4 Ashigaru                    45   180       180

4 Ashigaru Tempo        65    260      440

4 Ronin                         65   260      700

4 Samurai                     80   320    1020

4 Samurai Cav            110   440    1460

*2 Ninja                         70   140    1600

1 Shogun                     150  150    1750

2 Daimyo                       80  160    1910

1 Shugenja                    90    90    2000

World Eaters UK list

        I got a game against Kal At 6 Feet under. It was the first outing for the World Eaters. I was not playing the 30K list. This was a primer for Fall In. The tourney at Fall In will not support 30K lists. There is no Net EA World Eater list. The Blood Angels list is also not approved. I respectfully requested to use the UK World Eater list. Those boys play a shit ton of games. The list is well tested and was at Epic Worlds. After review the TO approved the list for usage.

My List;

1 Spaceship
1 Tactical dropping
1 Tactical dropping
1 Termie with deamon prince
2 Tacticals in rhinos, 1 with SC
2 Juggers
2 doom cannons

Kal's list
4 penitent engines
2 missile tanks, 1 with AA
2 Lighting attack crafts
2 scout sisters
1 sisters in rhinos
1 sisters in rhino with SC

         I picked corners. Won the initiative and stuck with the orbital bombs, followed with a drop and retain. My notes say when playing corners, 90% of people stack the corner lines. I should have bombed there, but I bombed off center of the blitz. The bombs broke 2 units. If I had followed my notes, the intel, I would had crushed two units not broken them.
        The problem then continues. When dropping more than 1 detachment and with a single retain a detachment is left to suffer. You can only drop one in engagement range. Overwise your proper fucked. I knew this too. Yet I continued the foully. The second drop, if you drop, should be outside of engage range yet within support of the first drop's area of operations.

        It was hard to go from a stand and shoot army to a go up and knock someone out army. By the end of turn three I had BTS. The termies and deamon princes got it for me. It was 1 - 0. We played out the 4th turn for practice. None of mine rallied, his did. I would have lost 1 -3.

         I need a detachment or two that shoots more. The deamon cannons are too fragile at 4 stands. I would drop one jugger going forward. Maybe only one drop. I need practice and to think and to follow intel better.

Warmaster Revolution "Trial Samurai List draft v2"

        With Fall In weeks away the Revolution rule/list body finally released a trial draft. Its v2, so who knows what v1 was. There was no chain of edits. The Fall In TO asked if I would use it. I will.
        There are parts I agree with and those I don't. As it stands, I see no reason to bother. Just use the Empire list. The change to the feudal rule, no magic, and the loss of monsters/deamons would provide the flavor.

                   Shogun with 10 leadership for only turn one seems like a deal was stuck. Turn one only and the Dark Elf penalty through. I like the DE penalty. Its gives a samurai lord relationship feel. I would have preferred the Shogun 10, Daimyo 9, Taisho 8 chain of command. With the shogun keeping his command 10, but for a premium.
                   The Imps, Oni, and Tengu need to go. I know people lose their minds without flyers (Tengu) to deal with artillery. Not every army needs birds. Imps being immune to terror without causing terror, I don't see the point.

                   The fuedal rule is wrong. Its is the exact opposite. Peasants lives were valued higher than Samurai. It is will documented that the Daimyo constantly ruled in favor of the peasants Vs Samurai. These lords were very sensitive to the Samurai-jo (farmer samurai) and Ashigaru losses, rights, and moral. As these individuals were the sole source of income.                      
                 The Samurai armies fought in what we would consider the off season. There by never putting future income at risk. They fought over the winter, to move the majority of mouths into ours territory and to steal the harvest. The other warfare season was directly after the planting or lean season. The mouths are once again stressing out another territory. We have to remember that rice was money, the sole currency. (Coin money came much later, well after Osaka. Only Ronin were reward in gold and rarely) It was how people were paid. If the farmers were expandable, one’s future source of income would then be expandable. No dumb fuck would ever risk next years ability to generate wealth.

         Also Samurai were rewarded with lands and grants. If one failed to expand, there was nothing free to give. Sort of, as they would give away the lands of the dead. (Daimyo’s give away there only land way back after the 3 year and 8 year war. Just like rome, this was the start were army loyal to the individual and not the state. resulting in the age in which the Samurai we are representing fought.) It is a reason why the Daimyo’s over all strategy does not appear to exist. They were more concerned with keeping warriors happy and entertained than expansion.

         Therefore the Daimyo needed samurai to die. But could not afford the loss of peasants. The rule need to be the loss of monks, samurai, and ronin don’t count. Ashigaru do only count as twice towards break.

                 Tempo with double the shots. If they are willing to include all the manga cartoon items, tempo volley firing should be no problem. The internet historians believe Nobunaga Oda developed volley fire in 1575 destroying the Takeda Cavalry at the battle of Nagashino. This should be an easy sell.        

Draft v2

          

10mm Samurai

       The latest additions to the Samurai army. As always all are OOP Castle Arts.

10mm Takeda Samurai

10mm Oda Ashigaru Tempo

10mm Oda Ashigaru Yami

10mm Hojo Ashigaru Tempo

        All the bases have been doubled up. Most are on Shogun magnets. I went and ordered movement trays also. The spears and other weapons are fragile. I don't think they will last much more than one tourney.

Shogun miniatures for all your magnetic bases and movement trays