From JezT - Early Samurai - 28mm From TAG (70 points)

 Hi All, 

Excited to post up these 3 Samurai packs from The Assault Group which is part of my plan to be able to field a Basic Impetus rules Early Samurai army. I can already field the Later  Samurai "Age of War" period and have matched armies based on Warlord Uesugi Kenshin and the Ikko Ikki peasant league. 

I have always had an idea to use some of these army figures and expand earlier and be able to field a Samurai army from the time of the Mongol invasions in 1274. Here the Samurai have very different early style armour, with no "sashimono" and still have traditional bow armed mounted troops. Of course with no arquebus.  

There are 8 infantry and 3 mounted in the three TAG packs - 

The Mounted Samurai are the stars - 

Next the Foot Samurai 

Sabot based so can use in skirmish games if I want

In Basic Impetus the Early Samurai fight as Light  Infantry

Finally some "Followers" - I painted these simply with plain black armour and white cloth and they can then mix with other figures I have from the later Ikko Ikki army, such as farmers, peasants and so on. In the Basic Impetus Early Samurai army you have 8 bases in total, 4 of which are these "Follower" Light Infantry. 

  

Pleased to get these 3 packs done, although felt with the Samurai armour and clothing I was reaching the limits of my painting skills. They don't have any immediate Mongol opponents, but that is another long term painting project for my brother ......

So in total 70 points recorded. 

Have a great week painting all! Cheers Jez 

Very cool samurai Jez! This is one of the periods I've often thought about (I loved the Dixon Samurai range with the football heads that used to be advertised in Wargames Illustrated eons ago) but the delicate painting put me off... you've done a fine job with these and I'm happy to chalk up 70 points for you!

Dallas