Two ‘New’ Books on Sengoku Jidai Warfare

Till Weber's 2 volume series 'Die Samurai der Sengoku-zeit,' previously only available in German has gotten an English translation. This makes them easily the best 2 books for wargaming the Sengoku in English. I used to recommend the German versions to anyone who had the slightest ability to read German (I have them, and my…

6mm Bamboo

I've added a guide to making 6mm bamboo to the terrain guide section: Bamboo

Adventures in 28mm

I've added a page to the 'blog menu with some links to some games in 28mm. What started out as a small venture with a dozen figures has grown into several dozen figures and a lot of terrain. I occasionally post some stuff on my general gaming 'blog, so I'll link them here in the…

Depicting a 1:1 sonae in 6mm

When the 'small battle' project has progressed a bit more, I'm hoping to eventually be able to use them to show sonae in 1:1 scale for illustrative purposes of what a base in the 'large battle' represents. I'm currently at around 700 figures, so here they are in a small sonae. Unfortunately having to mix sashimono…

Test of Honour

  The 28mm interlude continues..... While working on making a Two Hour Wargames Sengoku game, I was feeling that the combat was a bit too simple. It's OK for quickly getting through encounters and moving on with the narrative, but I felt I wanted something a bit crunchier. Fortunately, at the same time, I finally…

A Question of Scale

6mm has always been associated with 1/300 scale. It's a nice and simple conversion, 6mm is 1.8m which is roughly the height of a modern man (6'). There are, however, two problems with this when it comes to Baccus 6mm samurai. The figures are taller than 6mm, and the average height of a Japanese man…

‘Battles in the Age of War’ revisited.

With the rules modifications for Tenkatoitsu finalised, and a decent number of bases painted, I started looking at some historical battles to refight. One thing I noticed was that, among the classic battles involving tens of thousands of men, there are a lot of quite small engagements, with only a few thousand men a side.…

The Kodera clan

Another base finished, and another one of the Harima clans. This time it's the Kodera. The Kodera were, alongside the Besshō, deputy governors of Harima province under the Akamatsu. They initially sided with the Oda but changed sides to the Mōri at the same time as the Besshō. The clan mon comes from the excellent kamon…

Another base

Not much progress on the figure front recently. But 'the project' is still live and hopefully I'll get some games in over the next few months to fine tune the rules. Another base of Oda finished. I think I might do another Mōri base and then do some Akamatsu (a Harima clan) and possibly some…

One Year On

It's been a year since the first 6mm figures from Baccus turned up and overall it's been a very productive year. With a major rebasing along the way the armies have reached the point where meaningful games are possible. The next thing will be to try and get to 20 units a side, so hopefully…