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

From TomM: Sarah's Balloon: Journey to Cook's Crevasse (35 pts)

Once more we board the balloon for our fourth use of the service already, as our journey leaves The Path of History, and takes us towards The Path of the Forgotten.

And more precisely, we will set down at Cook's Crevasse.

In order to pay the fair for the use of the balloon, I went to paint one of those excellent Bushido models I have lying around, for a 9th Age project I just don`t seem to get of the ground.  Maybe a "commitment project" for the AHPC 11 or so...

But the lady, who sports a cool pose and has a strong "Chun-Li" feel from the Streetfighter game (and hence why I went for the blue and white colour scheme as well) at least can be added to the not so growing numbers of a fantasy samurai force.

And jolts another 5 points on my tally.

Now, to go and explore those depths of the Crevasse...