(from GMT website:) Samurai is the fifth entry in the award-winning Great Battles of History series and is easily the most exotic and visually stunning. Samurai covers all the major battles of the Sengoku Jidai (the Age of Warring Daimyos). Japan was truly a country at war. Because of the nature of 16th century Japanese warfare, it is also the easiest game...
Heroic Samurai: One Brain Cell Rules for Clan Feuding in Classical Japan. From the rulebook: "These are rules for playing a wargame with toy soldiers. It is intended for several players - say 4 or more. Players control significant leaders - the key samurai of a clan, who in turn have contingents of fighters under them." "These rules are intended to...
Issue game of Wargame Japanese History #13. Seinan Senso is a campaign level wargame of the Satsuma Rebellion (1877). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satsuma_Rebellion Designer's note writes that the game was designed with reference to basic engine of Paths of Glory and deck building concept from Dominion. Players control either imperial Japanese Army or...
From the publisher's website: Set in an age of feuding samurai, wandering swordsmen and fearless warrior monks, Ronin is a skirmish wargame that captures the flavor and excitement of such Akira Kurosawa films as Seven Samurai and Yojimbo. Whether they prefer the loyal samurai retainers of a feudal lord or a horde of desperate bandits, players choose from...
En Garde! is a small-scale skirmish game based on the successful Ronin rules, in which small groups of warriors fight each other for honour or riches. Rather than just rolling a few dice, the rules allow players to make tactical decisions about how the models that they control will fight - offensively, defensively, or by applying special skills and...
In Mojo Samurai, your clan will have to use the ressources that destiny gives it to lead its samurais to victory. Each player will fight enemy clans in a war without mercy for the control of the territory. This games plays in 3 rounds, and each rounds ends with a moment of truth that is brutal and short lasted. Mojo Samurai is inspired of the classic...
The Emperor is weak, challenged by the might of the Shogun. The Clan lords align themselves with one side or the other, taking advantage of the turmoil to settle old grudges and seize new territory. Their loyal samurai, consummate warriors trained in the art of the blade, must do their bidding without question. Test of Honour is a skirmish wargame played...
Oda Nobunaga was a key figure in the Japnese civil wars. This card adapts the character o Nobunaga to the tabletop for use in Test of Honour games. The card allows Oda Nobunaga to be fielded as a Special Character, complete with some enhanced combat skills and special rules that make him a unique addition to one's forces. The miniature pictured on the card...
Unleash spectacular combos and devastating finishing moves in this jaw-dropping, butt-kicking fighting game of martial arts mash-ups! For 2-4 players. In Samurai Punk, players assume the role of deadly warriors in an original world that blends steampunk with martial arts - samurais, ninjas, kung-fu monks, gangsters, gunslingers, knights templar, and more!...
Redeveloped - but unreleased - version of the Japanese game Feudal Lord, originally published in 1983. In Samurai Lords, players scheme, plot, plan, fight, and deal with unforeseen events in the quest to become the supreme Samurai on the land. With 26 scenarios to represent periods ranging from the 12th to the 16th century and with some 500 major samurai...
BACKGROUND: Samurai Conquest is a semi-historical simulation of Japan’s Wars of Unification. The Player assumes the role of the head of the Tokugawa Clan during the later decades of Japan’s Wars of Unification (1540-1600). As the Leader of the Tokugawa Clan, you have the powerful ambition of conquering your Clan Rivals and unifying all of Japan’s Provinces...
侍鳥 (Samurai Dori) is a Japanese dexterity game. The publisher gives an alternate name — "Samurai-Dori ~Wings of Bushido~" — to reflect the activity. The first edition was published in 2016 in Japanese but a new edition is being prepared for SPIEL '17, with English, German and French rules. The game includes printed cubes which the players arrange in more...