Showing posts with label Buntai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Buntai. Show all posts

Friday, February 7, 2014

Dragon Clan Bushi Buntai

Two weeks from this evening we'll be kicking off the  10th Annual Wargaming Birthday Bash/Winter Wargaming Weekend! This is the seventh buntai for Ronin – Skirmish Wargames in the Age of the Samurai that we will be using in the campaign/tournament. it is the second Bushi Buntai I have finished and the remaining three I had planned (thought I may only finish one or two more) are also Bushi Buntai.

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The Entire Buntai


Heavy Armour, Katana, Wakazishi,
Command, Kenjutsu, Nitten, plus one other Abilitiy
43 points
This miniature is from AEG’s Legends of the Five Rings: Clan War line.



1x Hatamoto
Heavy Armour, Katana, Wakazishi,
Command, Kenjutsu, Nitten,
35 points each
This miniature is also from AEG’s Legends of the Five Rings: Clan War line.


3x Samurai
Heavy Armour, Katana, Wakazishi, Naginata
Command, Naginatajutsu
@30 points each
Again, all three miniatures are from AEG’s Legends of the Five Rings: Clan War line.



5x Ashigaru
Medium Armour, Armour, Katana, Yari
@18 points each
All five of these guys are from Old Glory



6x Ashigaru
Medium Armour, Armour, Katana, Yumi (or Teppo)
@18 points each
The two on the left are from Perry Miniatures, the rest are from Old Glory

1x Ashigaru Gashira Bannerman.
Medium Armour, Armour, Katana, Banner
18points
This figure is actually a Perry Miniatures Spearman that I made my own banner and pole for.


Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

I think I'm going to switch gears and get some terrain done... then maybe one or two more buntai to give the players some options. 

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Sohei Buntai #2


This is the second Sohei Buntai for Ronin – Skirmish Wargames in the Age of the Samurai that we will be using in the 10th Annual Wargaming Birthday Bash/Winter Wargaming Weekend. All of the miniatures are from The Assault Group - one of which I converted with a teppo I picked up years ago from Dixon Miniatures (I think?)

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The whole Buntai


Grand Master
Medium Armour, Katana, Naginata
Fearless, Naginatajutsu, plus two other Abilities
45 Points


2x Senior Sohei
Medium Armour, Katana, Naginata
Fearless, Naginatajutsu, plus one other Abilitiy
@37 Points each


4x Sohei
Medium Armour, Katana, Naginata
Fearless, Naginatajutsu
@29


4x Sohei
Medium Armour, Katana, Yumi
Fearless,
Two with Kyjutsu @ 29
One with no additional abilities @ 26


2x Initiates
No Armour, Katana, Naginata or Teppo
Fearless
@15 points

1x Initiate
Medium Armour, Katana, Naginata
Fearless
@19 points


Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

The Dragon Clan Bushi Buntai! 

Monday, January 27, 2014

Ikko-Ikki


Yet another buntai for Ronin – Skirmish Wargames in the Age of the Samurai that we will be using in the 10th Annual Wargaming Birthday Bash/Winter Wargaming Weekend.

All of the miniatures in this buntai are from Perry Miniatures.


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The Whole Buntai


Hanshou
Heavy Armour, Katana, Wakizashi, Naginata
Commander, Naginatajutsu, Powerful
38 points


2x Samurai
Heavy Armour, Katana, Wakizashi, Yari
Commander, Sojutsu,
@30 points


Monto-Gashira
Medium Armour, Katana, Yari
21 points


2x Monto-Gashira
Medium Armour, Katana, one with Yari, one with Banner
(The full 400 point force will actually have TWO Monto-Gashira with Banner – but they will only ever be fielded one at a time, so I only have the one miniature).
@18 points


4x Monto
Light Armour, Teppo
@16 points


3x Monto
Light Armour, Yumi
@16 points


2x Monto
Light Armour, Yari
@16 points


3x Monto
NO Armour, Naginata
@14 points


Monto
Light Armour, Katana
13 points


2x Peasants
Yari
@8 points


7x Peasants
Improvised Weapon
@4 points

Quite the mix of stuff to keep track of… and by far the largest of the buntai (with the exception of the Peasants! Which are almost done as well!)

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

Peasant Buntai



Yet another buntai for Ronin – Skirmish Wargames in the Age of the Samurai that we will be using in the 10th 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. 

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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

Lion Clan Bushi Buntai Redux



I had previously posted a Lion Clan Bushi Buntai, but then it was pointed out to me that I’d failed to follow my own damned rules for Buntai make up!? Both the 400 point master list and the 150 point buntais fielded in the 10th Annual Wargaming Birthday Bash/Winter Wargaming Weekend Ronin Campaign/Tournament are to follow the general guidelines for Buntai composition. With all the others I paid attention to this, but, for some reason, when I did the Bushi buntai I was only thinking about the 150 point options and essentially made them top heavy – giving the player the option of playing all Rank 3+ buntai or with Ashigaru – for a game or two until all the ashigaru were wiped out… Anyway… they STILL have the option of fielding an all Rank 3+ buntai… but that would mean fielding MOST of their Rank 3+ guys and if it went badly… it would be Ashigaru for the rest of the campaign…

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The Entire Buntai


Bushou
Heavy Armour, Katana, Wakazishi, Naginata
Command, Naginatajutsu, plus two other Abilities
46 points
The miniature is from AEG’s Legends of the Five Rings: Clan War line. I believe the Miniature is supposed to be Matsu Tsuko, who became Daimyo of the lion Clan after the disgrace of Akodo Totori.


1x Hatamoto
Heavy Armour, Katana, Wakazishi,
Command, Kenjutsu, plus one other Ability
35 points each
This miniature is also from AEG’s Legends of the Five Rings: Clan War line.


3x Samurai
Heavy Armour, Katana, Wakazishi, Naginata
Command, Naginatajutsu
@30 points each
Again, all three miniatures are from AEG’s Legends of the Five Rings: Clan War line.



5x Ashigaru
Medium Armour, Armour, Katana, Yari
@18 points each
All five of these guys are from Old Glory



6x Ashigaru
Medium Armour, Armour, Katana, Yumi (or Teppo)
@18 points each
The archer on the right is from Old Glory, The gunner with the teppo on the left is from Perry Miniatures.


1x Ashigaru Gashira Bannerman.
Medium Armour, Armour, Katana, Banner
18points
This figure is actually a Perry Miniatures Spearman that I made my own banner and pole for.


Figures total = 387 points
+2x Fearless Kiai! @ 5 points
= 397

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

The Peasant Buntai! 

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Bandit Buntai


This is my Bandit buntai for Ronin – Skirmish Wargames in the Age of the Samurai that we will be using in the 10th Annual Wargaming Birthday Bash/Winter Wargaming Weekend. It’s a larger buntai than most of the others – probably the largest… but it’s highest ranking figure is Rank 3. And there’s just one of him… I suppose I could have padded it out with a bunch of Ronin (that could take over leadership if the actual leader died!)… but, I didn’t…

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The Whole Buntai


Bandit Leader
Heavy Armour, Katana, Tetsubo (that’s what I’m classifying that BFH as…)
Commander, Tetsubojutsu
30 points
The miniature is from AEG’s Legends of the Five Rings: Clan War line.


2x Bandit Gashira
Medium Armour, Katana
Commander
One @22 points, one @25 points who would also have Kenjutsu
These miniatures are also from AEG’s Legends of the Five Rings: Clan War line.


2x Bandit Gashira
Light Armour, Katana
Commander
@20 points each
These miniatures are also from AEG’s Legends of the Five Rings: Clan War line.



Bandit Gashira
NO Armour, Katana, Naginata
Commander
@21 points
This figure is from Black Hat Miniatures.



2x Bandit Gashira
NO Armour, Katana, Yumi
Commander, Kyujutsu
@24 points each
Both of these are from Old Glory



7x Bandits
NO Armour, Katana
@11 points each
These are a mix of Old Glory and Dixon Miniatures.




2x Bandits
Light Armour, Katana, Yari
@16points each
Both of these are from Old Glory


5x Bandits
Light Armour, Katana, Yumi
@16 points each
These are all from Old Glory


5x Peasants
Improvised Weapons
@4 points each
These are a mix of miniatures from Old Glory and The Assault Group


=398 points

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

I have half of Sohei Buntai #2 complete, but I’m waiting on a second order to totally finishe them up before I post them. I the meantime I could finish up the few extra things I need to complete the Ikko-Ikki - which is a few archers and some Samurai. After the Ikko-Ikki it will be on to the rest of the Bushi Buntai (unless the rest of Sohei Buntai #2 arrives – then I’ll probably finish that one up!)

But I have a few completely unrelated items I’ve also been working on…