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Miniatures Adventure => Adventures in the Far East => Topic started by: Belisarius on July 02, 2017, 08:29:24 AM

Title: Test of Honour
Post by: Belisarius on July 02, 2017, 08:29:24 AM
Two of the members put on a ToH game at the club last Saturday.
Title: Re: Test of Honour
Post by: FierceKitty on July 02, 2017, 09:09:22 AM
Ummm....(typed standing on head).
Title: Re: Test of Honour
Post by: Belisarius on July 02, 2017, 04:32:07 PM
If at first you d,ont succeed , suck , suck , suck again .....
Title: Re: Test of Honour
Post by: FierceKitty on July 05, 2017, 01:30:39 AM
If at first you don't succeed , suck , suck , suck again .....

...as the bishop said to the actress.
Title: Re: Test of Honour
Post by: nic-e on July 25, 2017, 10:56:25 PM
looks great. I read the rules the other night (had them downloaded for months...) and realise that the game actually sounds like fun to play which is rare for me and have picked up the starter box!
Title: Re: Test of Honour
Post by: sundayhero on July 25, 2017, 11:38:52 PM
Really cool rules, and overall great value.  I bought the starter for my brithday (yes, I have to make my own birthday presents, I don't know if I should laugh or cry  ;D), and I was so positively suprised that I bought the entire range actually available.

Now, a few inches added for the mountain of unpainted minis  lol
Title: Re: Test of Honour
Post by: nic-e on July 26, 2017, 12:41:49 AM
Really cool rules, and overall great value.  I bought the starter for my brithday (yes, I have to make my own birthday presents, I don't know if I should laugh or cry  ;D), and I was so positively suprised that I bought the entire range actually available.

Now, a few inches added for the mountain of unpainted minis  lol

Mine was a present to myself for graduating (if i keep saying it about all the things i buy then it doesn't seem so bad!)
it's the first game starter box that i have bought because the rules sold me on the game and not the minis, so kudos to warlord!

Can i ask what you feel is the smallest size this game can be played at? he rules say between 5 and 20 minis, but does 5 elite samurai actually give a good game without the soldiers?
Title: Re: Test of Honour
Post by: wkeyser on July 26, 2017, 08:26:17 AM
Hi
could you guys tell me if there is any way of getting the cards and all the other stuff for the rules withoujt buying the stater pack. I have a ton of  Samurai and really dont need any more.

William
Title: Re: Test of Honour
Post by: nic-e on July 26, 2017, 12:50:58 PM
Hi
could you guys tell me if there is any way of getting the cards and all the other stuff for the rules withoujt buying the stater pack. I have a ton of  Samurai and really dont need any more.

William

I asked the and thing and unless you know someone that's getting rid of them then the answer is no sadly.
Title: Re: Test of Honour
Post by: wkeyser on July 27, 2017, 08:40:39 AM
Well that is very disapointing, I guess I will stay with ronin.  I hate the idea of this type of game, you have to buy into it all if you want the rules or figures etc. Forcing the gamer to buy the figures to get the rules is just not the way to get me to support your figure company.

William
Title: Re: Test of Honour
Post by: Belisarius on July 27, 2017, 09:36:57 AM
Gentlemen, on the Warlord site , the rules can be downloaded free and the cards are £10 . The tokens are available for £15 , I think , although you could consider making your own. Not a huge outlay , surely.
Title: Re: Test of Honour
Post by: craigjwoodfield on July 27, 2017, 11:12:09 AM
Gentlemen, on the Warlord site , the rules can be downloaded free and the cards are £10 . The tokens are available for £15 , I think , although you could consider making your own. Not a huge outlay , surely.

That's incorrect. You have to purchase the various box sets to get the faction cards, as well as the main box set to get the campaign rules and basic cards.

I am with wkeyser, not interested in a game that forces you to buy all the expansions, particularly as you end up with a pile of the very mediocre Wargames Factory figures.
Title: Re: Test of Honour
Post by: sundayhero on July 27, 2017, 11:25:44 AM
Personaly (and that's just that, my personaly feeling) I think it's very rude to speak of "very mediocre"  miniatures. I've been very pleased with the figures, personaly. I don't think there is so much better japanese sengoku figures out there. And as I'm used to good quality plastic sets (warlord, GW, Valiant, Perry), I don't think they are so badly ranked too.


edit : by the way, I think ToH has to be seen as a great medium to bring new/fantasy people to (fun/hollywood) historical gaming, the fact the game material belongs to the sets can be annoying for gaming veterans, but for someone who never played medieval japan, it's not a problem at all (it's probably the opposite). And it's a good way to collect nice minis to play any other ruleset available too (like ronin, for instance).

Just my personaly thoughts, not an objective fact, as I said ;)
Title: Re: Test of Honour
Post by: craigjwoodfield on July 29, 2017, 09:25:32 PM
Good thing I didn't say they're utter crap then!
Title: Re: Test of Honour
Post by: SotF on July 29, 2017, 11:59:06 PM
For those commenting on things, despite the issues the old WGF minis have, they are one of the nicer kits to find great bits and pieces along with massive amounts of conversion fodder.
Title: Re: Test of Honour
Post by: sundayhero on July 30, 2017, 01:24:14 AM
Good thing I didn't say they're utter crap then!

You can say whatever you want  lol I'm just sharing another opinion on a same product, people will make their own ;)

cheers  :)
Title: Re: Test of Honour
Post by: Antonio J Carrasco on August 06, 2017, 06:26:49 PM
That's incorrect. You have to purchase the various box sets to get the faction cards, as well as the main box set to get the campaign rules and basic cards.

I am with wkeyser, not interested in a game that forces you to buy all the expansions, particularly as you end up with a pile of the very mediocre Wargames Factory figures.

I bought it this morning, for my daughter -she is a Sengoku Jidai period fanatic and had been pestering me since the game was released!-. As soon as we came home she started to assemble the figures, and while they could be more "assembling-friendly" or at least have better diagrams -why is so difficult to number the pieces?-, the sculptures themselves are more than decent. Truth be told, I actually like them. They are not Steel Fist, to be sure, but not mediocre either. I am not great fan of Warlord Miniatures sculpting, but in this case I am not disgusted at all by their figures. Not great, but decent.

PS: horses, on the other hand, look somewhat weird. 
Title: Re: Test of Honour
Post by: Antonio J Carrasco on August 07, 2017, 05:19:03 AM
Dunno why I duplicated my post! Apologies.
Title: Re: Test of Honour
Post by: Andrew_McGuire on August 08, 2017, 06:44:31 PM
That's incorrect. You have to purchase the various box sets to get the faction cards, as well as the main box set to get the campaign rules and basic cards.

I am with wkeyser, not interested in a game that forces you to buy all the expansions, particularly as you end up with a pile of the very mediocre Wargames Factory figures.

This may be true with regard to the additional factions, but the main cards and dice can be bought for £10. The token set (£15) is acrylic, unlike the card version that comes with the core set. As the rules can be downloaded free of charge, along with a set of optional rules, as far as I can see the game should be playable without purchasing the core set, or any expansions if not wanted. Most of the latter include a metal leader and some heads, however. Nothing is exactly cheap, is it?
Title: Re: Test of Honour
Post by: nic-e on August 09, 2017, 03:50:55 PM
This may be true with regard to the additional factions, but the main cards and dice can be bought for £10. The token set (£15) is acrylic, unlike the card version that comes with the core set. As the rules can be downloaded free of charge, along with a set of optional rules, as far as I can see the game should be playable without purchasing the core set, or any expansions if not wanted. Most of the latter include a metal leader and some heads, however. Nothing is exactly cheap, is it?

The cards available from the warlord site are optional extra cards ,not the core cards needed to play the game.

From the walord site:
"This set as it might be easy to overlook among all the exciting models, but it’s well worth a mention. Extra dice are obviously useful, but the coolest bit is the 10 unique cards included:

2 extra Dishonour cards - Public Disgrace and Private Shame - these make it possible that the result of your dishonourable actions could be much worse or not so bad!
1 new Injury card - Lingering Wound - means you start the next battle in a bad way!
4 new skills - including Red Mist – which makes you more awesome once wounded - and Vengeance - which kicks in if a friendly samurai is cut down!
3 new Quests - including Appalling Luck (written in honour of Andy’s terrible dice rolling!)"

Title: Re: Test of Honour
Post by: Andrew_McGuire on August 09, 2017, 06:00:34 PM
私は謝罪! About to sever front part of little finger with X-acto knife. Will post pic later.