Wargaming Feudal Japan (with a side trip to Warring States China)

[mmcv]

For a while now I've been working on my own rules for Feudal Japan (https://mmcvhistory.home.blog/2021/06/08/rules-for-the-sengoku-jidai-revamped/). I'm getting close to being happy with them (just small tweaks at this stage to the core rules, though plenty of scenarios, formations and suchlike to do still) and have run a few test games. No armies yet (first figures just arrived the other day) so couple of recent test games were with mdf:



Read the report here:
https://mmcvhistory.home.blog/2021/06/08/battle-report-feudal-japan-ao-vs-shiro-clans/



Read the report here:
https://mmcvhistory.home.blog/2021/07/04/battle-report-feudal-japan-ao-vs-shiro-clans-rematch/

Then after doing some further streamlining, introducing some new concepts and wanting to use some actual figures, I decided to take the rules back a couple of millennia and try them out in Warring States China as that was the next closest army I had figures done for:







Read the report here:
https://mmcvhistory.home.blog/2021/07/18/warring-states-china-using-feudal-japanese-rules/

Looking forward to putting together some actual units for the period, as well as making some proper bannermen and messengers rather than those garish counters I've been using!

[WuZhuiQiu]

I would be interested in eventually trying those rules for gaming Warring States Chinese battles!

[mmcv]

I would be interested in eventually trying those rules for gaming Warring States Chinese battles!

Certainly, if/when I ever do get a Chinese adaption done I'll be sure to let you know, though I do find researching Chinese warfare in English sources to bit a bit more hit and miss than what's available on the Japanese. Some great potential there though. I'm working on some Medieval Europe/Crusades rules too in a similar vein, so I suspect the Chinese rules will sit somewhere between the two.

[Maniac]

The stones/blank bases would work great for a semi hidden deployment/movement until you contact an enemy, then reveal...

[mmcv]

Yeah, that would be an interesting idea to get around the "god's eye view" of the enemy position. Doing something for dawn attacks/dense fog was something I had at the back of my mind, some sort of hidden deployment like that could work well. Provided it doesn't become too cumbersome or require a lot of bookkeeping to keep track of whats' what and who's where. One to let the cogs turn on for a while and see if anything presents itself. Thanks for the idea!