First 3mm Samurai Skirmish

   I had a chance to lay out some troops for a little skirmish in a mountain pass.  It was a good chance to see what everything looked like altogether and test some of the special rules I want to use. 

  I'm thinking of adding some real punch to the Samurai stands.  Not only keeping them strong and with elite morale, but adding some additional penalties if engaging and losing to them in melee.

  I like the look of the huts.  I still have to work on some terrain features like fields and rice paddies. 

Village in a mountain pass with a Monastery on the hill top

Clan defends the village and pass

Invading clan approaches

Waiting for battle

 

First casualties and fall backs

3mm Samurai updates: Warrior Monks, Peasants, latest Daimyo

   I've completed about 40 stands of 3mm Samurai.  I wanted to post what I've done lately and some pics of my first play test. With this latest Daimyo and some odds and ends like peasants and warrior monks, I think I'm done for awhile, although I still have some lead left I will keep it to be able to react to future inspiration.

  First up were some Warrior Monks.  These are actually based on a couple different orders I found online.  One was very colorful and the other wore black with a sort of white cowl.  Hard to pick up in 3mm but historically based none the less.

Warrior Monks

   I also added some basic peasants to be used to augment any clan or just to be cannon fodder.


Peasants

   I finally finished my second Daimyo stand for one of my favorite clans.

   A new clan.  Based on a Takeda follower.

3mm Naps - French Imperial Guard

I finally started to add the Old Guard to my French contingent.  What better place to start with than the "Les Gros Freres", the Horse Grenadiers of the French Imperial Guard.  Painted them much as they looked at Waterloo.

Russian WWII 15mm

   Started playing 15mm WWII so I had to bust out the Russian figs and vehicles.

Russian T-34, Infantry, and SU-100

    I experimented with the Plastic Soldier Company for my Heavy Weapons.  Basically you get 4 identical sprues in a pack.  Each sprue has 3 mortars of various sizes, a Maxim machine gun, and a couple anti tank rifle teams.  The value was great and the figs are good, if a little on the skinny side.  The only thing I took issue with was gluing on so many arms and heads in odd positions.  I don't have the patience for that anymore.

Heavy Weapons from Plastic Soldier Company

Back to 3mm Naps

I've been working on some ongoing projects and starting some new ones to take a break while putting the finishing touches on my Samurai armies. I got everything together for a Prussian Corps and tested out a Brigade of infantry.


Prussian Brigade

You can see one Line Regt in front with two Landwehr Regt's in the rear.  

Prussian Line Regt

Command

Landwehr

Japanese huts for 3mm Samurai

I picked up some Pico Terrain Wooden Huts (pkgs of 6 pcs) made by Oddzial Osmy Terrain from Pico Armor to go with some of the terrain I'm prepping for my first scenario.  These are nice and I'll probably use them with some of the Viet Nam stuff too.

Latest clan off the painting table

I finished up my fourth clan and am pretty pleased with this one.  I might even add a few more stands to it.  I bought some huts from Pico Armor and am working on them to get a game going soon.  I have about 30 painted stands made up of four separate clans. 

I want to make some single mounted Samurai units and bodyguards and a few Yari in different color schemes I like to represent really small clans and use up the figures I have.  Them I plan on just gaming with that for awhile and check this period off my bucket list.

The newest clan completed

I've been looking for rules on personal combat and have lots of ideas but haven't landed on what I like.  I found some reference to them in the Chrysanthemum Throne rules set.  According to some research that had pretty much died out by the late 16th century anyway but I really want it to add some flavor to the game.  I'm trying to search for some ancients rules that might have it covered.  Maybe I'll pull out the old DBA book and see what's in there.

I'm also upgrading my phone so I can start getting some decent pictures of this 3mm stuff.

Teppo Ashigaru with mounted and foot Samurai

Yari Ashigaru

 

Daimyo