Dragon Clan Bushi Buntai

Two weeks from this evening we'll be kicking off the  10^th 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. 

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 10^th 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! 

Ikko-Ikki

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.

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 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. 

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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 10^th 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! 

Bandit Buntai

This is my Bandit 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. 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…