I got in another game of Ronin – Skirmish Wargames in the Age of the Samurai this after noon with Gary this afternoon. This was his first crack at the rules. It was good to see Gary as we haven't had a chance to get together for some time!
SCENARIO
We played a straight skirmish
scenario – as it seemed the easiest for learning the basics. We both ended up
with the “control the board” minor objective.
FORCES
Sohei Buntai - Gary
Grand Master
Medium Armour, Katana
Fearless, Kenjutsu, Intuition,
Fast
Senior Sohei
Medium Armour, Katana
Fearless, Kenjutsu, Powerful
Sohei
Medium Armour, Katana, Naginata
Fearless, Naginatajutsu
2x Initiates
Medium Armour, Katana, one with
Naginata, One with Teppo
Fearless
Ikko-Ikki Buntai – Tim
Hanshou
Heavy Armour, Katana, Wakizashi,
Naginata
Commander, Naginatajutsu,
Powerful
4x Monto
Light Armour, Teppo
1x Monto
Light Armour, Yari
2x Peasants
Yari
7x Peasants
Improvised Weapon
THE GAME
(Remember: click on the pictures
for a bigger version)
Gary’s Sohei deploy on the
table.
The end of Turn One – we both
charged towards each other.
Turn Two Gary’s Sohei kept
coming, but my Ikko-Ikki stood firm and fired their Teppo… well, two of them
fired Teppo – the third was shot by the Sohei’s teppo and ended up stunned and
unable to shoot this turn.
One of my Teppo got a very lucky
shot. And hit the Sohei’s Grand Master causing a Grievous wound!!
Despite what seemed like some
initial success, things went downhill for me very rapidly! Despite being
Grievously Wounded, The Grand Master was still a force to be reconed with! He
took down my Hanshou in one turn.
My Monto with a Yari and a
Peasant were also cut down by a Sohei and initiate, respectively. One of my
peasants got in a lucky jab, though, and grievously wounded the Initiate.
We played out one more turn –
which saw the Sohei’s initiate fall and another one of my Peasants slaughtered.
At that point I conceded. I
probably should have a turn earlier.
So, had this been in the
campaign, Gary would have chalked up a win with 6VP and I would have scored
1VP… I also lost 62 points worth of stuff and had two other peasants lightly
wounded. Gary only lost 19 points worth of stuff, but his Grand Master was
Grievously Wounds – which he could recover from, but effectively put him out of
action for a few games…
I was a bit more rash than I
might have been, but I wanted to get into combat so Gary could learn the
system. Had it been a campaign game I might have just sat on that hill and shot
at them and when they got close – ran away! Both of us had the “Control the
Table” minor objective – which, as long as I didn’t lose to many troops, I
might have pulled off – having far more numbers.
I don’t think I’d take three
Teppo in the future – one, maybe two. Both of these buntai need some archers. I
HAVE archers for both, I just need to finish painting them…
Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:
I haven’t got a whole lot of painting done this week.
Hobby-wise I’ve mostly been doing some prepping and converting:
These are Perry Miniatures Ashigaru archers I’m trying to convert into Sohei to use with the same Buntai Gary was using above.
Nice game BatRep! I know nothing of Ronin so I will be watching your pursuits.
ReplyDeleteNice looking fight, makes me want to try it!
ReplyDeleteLooking good, Tim ;)
ReplyDeleteAnother great looking game, Tim. The conversion work on the archers looks good too. Dean
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