Peasant Buntai

Yet another buntai for Ronin – Skirmish Wargames in the Age of the Samurai that we will be using in the 10^th Annual Wargaming Birthday Bash/Winter Wargaming Weekend. This buntai represents villagers and some ronin they've hired - sort of like in the Seven Samurai - except there's eight samurai here... and a warrior monk... and they couldn't all be fielded at the same time...

I'm not sure how they will work out. After Last Week's Game between the Bandit and Bushi buntais I'm thinking this may not be too bad. The peasants are completely ineffective on their own - but their sheer numbers (bolstered by a few Ronin) could be pretty effective...? We'll have to give them a try out sometime this week. 

(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version)

The whole bunch of them. The majority of these are all from Black Hat Miniatures (with a few from from The Assault Group and one from RAFM) 

36x Peasants

Improvised Weapons

@4 points each

The majority of the Peasants (the ones with the sharpened bamboo poles) are all from Black Hat Miniatures, the remainder (below) are from The Assault Group. At least 30% of a peasant buntais points must be spent on peasants – the rest are spent on Swords for Hire. I don’t actually HAVE 36 peasants I just have the 18 shown here – as we will only be fielding 150 point buntais for scenarios I highly doubt there would even need to be more than 12-15 on the table.

These peasants, from The Assault Group, I figures I could throw in for a bit of variety or as Peasants that need to be kept track of - i.e. ones that didn't die in their first two games or so, gained expreience, and have actually advanced in ability

Swords for Hire

All of the Ronin below are from Black Hat Miniatures, the Monk is from RAFM.

Senior Ronin

Heavy Armour, Katana, No-Dachi

Commander, Kenjutsu, Fast, Powerful

40 points

Ronin

Katana, No-Dachi

Commander, Kenjutsu

26 points

2x Ronin

Medium Armour, Yumi, Katana

Kyujutsu, and one other ability

@30 points

Ronin

NO Armour, Yumi, Katana

Kyujutsu, and one other ability

27 points

Ronin

Medium Armour, Katana

Kenjutsu, Nitten

27  points

2x Ronin

Katana

Kenjutsu, and one other ability

@23 points

Warrior Monk

Bo

Fearless, Bojutsu

28 points

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

The Ikko-Ikki