I'm putting together two 15mm DBA-HX style armies for the Sengoku Samurai period, and the plan is that the generals are actually the camp element. Inspired by the tussle over Kawanakajima in the middle of the Sixteenth Century, I've created two rival clans led by indefatigable daimyo. The first is the house of Yumisushi, currently led by Yumisushi Nate:
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| Nate's mon is a stylised sushi roll with green on the outside and a salmon pink square in the middle. Witness my feeble attempt to produce what is the hardest thing in the world to paint - freehand concentric circles. |
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| From the back the circle is not evident, but the clans favoured colour is - can you work it out? |
Just over the hill from the Yumisushi are their age old nemesis, the Tomuchisake, led by Tomuchisake Dan:
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| Seated amongst his warriors, the golden horned demon surveys the battlefield. His mon is a golden sake bottle. |
I was going to put screens around the base, but I needed to make sure that I left enough room to place a garrison element if necessary.
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| Dan seen from behind. The Daimyo and standard bearers are from Irregular Miniatures. |
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| A close up of the drummers, from Freikorps 15. |
The armies themselves are from Outpost Wargames Service and were featured in an
earlier blog post. I'm looking forward to painting them - Samurai in 15mm are much easier than 28mm! Of course, there will have to be a few more random things painted before I get into them. Stay tuned.
Very very nice work Nate!
ReplyDeleteCheers Rodger.
DeleteNifty command stands! Have you tried the Commands & Colors based Samurai Battles? Great game system and loads of fun.
ReplyDeleteI was considering buying the Zvezda box at the end of last year but Caliver said that they didn't have it and it was too expensive to ship from any of the other retailers that I looked at online. So DBA it will be. I do enjoy the game though.
DeleteFor Samurai Battles, you could do what I did. Downloaded the rules, and made my own dice and cards. No need to buy the Zvezda box of goodies.
DeleteThe dice labels can be found on BoardGame Geek. For the cards, I copy/pasted the cards from the VASSAL module and printed them out onto sticky labels. The labels then were affixed to regular playing cards. Voila!
Beautiful and unusual (for me!), excellent job on the clothes...
ReplyDeleteThanks Phil. I love the colours involved with Samurai armies.
DeleteGreat stuff! I love Samurai, can't wait to see more of these :-)
ReplyDeleteWell, hopefully I'll be able to get some more done soon.
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