From PhilH: When the Last Tetsubo is Hefted at Fantasy (49 Points)

 With apologies to Sidney for the title.

Flitting like a butterfly from the new project at World Cinema, back to an old project at the Fantasy studio. 

One of many skirmish games I’ve dabbled in, Bushido by GCT Studios is a fantasy samurai game that’s been around for a while, I was painting these about 2018-19 time. Alas it’s one of those games full of nuance that you need to play week by week really, and I haven’t had chance for that so haven’t painted any for ages. 

But aha, I gather one of our hobby luminaries and fellow challengers is developing a quite intriguing samurai skirmish game, ‘When the last sword is drawn’, which tempted me to dig out these ashigaru sentries. 

They join the rest of my Minimoto clan: ashigaru, an armoured samurai and a shugenja witch with a summoned kami elemental. Their schtick is they like in mountain strongholds and mostly wield massive tetsubo, and heavy armour.

But that’s not all! A local gamer was offloading some early Bushido minis to anyone that would collect them, so took a handful of the ‘Savage wave’ faction of oni and bakemono. I couldn’t resist painting one up straight away, and had a blast doing so. 

Of course I was delighted when Sidney’s post last month incorporated fantasy elements into his ruleset. 

 

A giant demon wielding a vast mallet isn’t something one would like to stumble into after a few saki.

Scoring, the ashigaru are 35mm scale, so 5 points a piece? 7? I leave it to the minion to decide on the oni, but he’s pretty big. 10? 15? Then 20 for the studio. 

Here I am entering the blue security zone, en route to the Director’s chair. 

These are beautifully painted and I love the demon chap. Well done