The Battle of Shōryūjijō, a campaign game.

I’ve returned to the campaign being generated by the board game ‘A Most Dangerous Time,’ which I wrote a bit about here. This time it was the Battle of Shōryūjijō. It is 1571 and Hosokawa Fujitaka is besieged in his castle of Shōryūjijō by the Miyoshi under Miyoshi Nagayasu. An Oda force under Takigawa Kazumasu…

The Battle of Inō with Ningen Gojūnen

I’ve finally got around to getting some figures on the table to have a go at my small battles rules Ningen Gojūnen and try out some changes I want to make to them. The battle is the Battle of Inō, 1556, which I’ve talked a bit about before. It’s a battle that’s described in a…

Kawanakajima Game

We played another game of ‘Tenka Fubu’ at the club last night. This was a based on one of the alternative theories for the 4th Battle of Kawanakajima. I’ve written previously about the issues that some historians have with the narrative derived from the Kōyō Gunkan, and briefly described an alternative scenario, but for this game…

Tenka Fubu game

We recently played a game of 'Tenka Fubu' at the club. My mate Al had done some bases for a Takeda army way back when I started, but we hadn't done too many games as Tenkatoitsu was a bit long for a club night. The poor old Takeda had lain forgotten in some boxes for…

Another campaign battle and some markers

I played a second campaign battle from 'A Most Dangerous Time.' Following the last battle, Oda Nobunaga has marched south and is besieging the Hongan-Ji ikkō-ikki in Ibaraki. Kinoshita Hideyoshi is on the slopes of Mount Hiei in an uneasy stand-off with the monks there. On the other shore of Lake Biwa, Azai Nagamasa leads…

On Campaign With ‘A Most Dangerous Time’

A while back I wrote down a few ideas about campaigns. I’ve finally got around to actually trying to integrate table-top battles into the board game ‘A Most Dangerous Time.’ English language board games set in the Sengoku Jidai are usually either focussed on single battles, or are large abstract Risk-style strategy games with very…

Battle pictures

I played a couple more games using my hybrid of 'Tenkatoitsu' and 'For King and Parliament.' The rules have more or less come together now, so I'll get on and try and write them up before too long and put them here for anyone that is interested. The battlefield: The armies arrive: The Oda partly…

For Daimyō and Kashindan…

Using a hybrid of 'Tenkatoitsu' and 'For King and Parliament' for large Sengoku battles Having previously tried using a version of 'To The Strongest' for a sonae-based Sengoku game, Simon Miller was kind enough to send me a copy of 'For King and Parliament,' and I think that set provides a better basis for the…

Yamazaki 1582

On the 2nd day of the 6th month of the 10th year of the Tenshō era (21 June 1582), Oda Nobunaga was attacked by his retainer, Akechi Mitsuhide, at the Honnō-ji shrine in Kyoto. By the end of the attack, Nobunaga and his eldest son Nobutada were dead. Nobunaga had been slain on the brink…

Battles in the Age of War again

I finally got around to trying out a game of 'Battles in the Age of War' now that I have enough 6mm figures on small bases finished. The armies were essentially the same in composition which is never ideal, but it's OK just to try the rules out. It's worth noting that I'm using these…