The Daishō Thread - update 05/07/2014

[Craig]

Its certainly worth using whats available miniatures wise to base your buntai off too. Especially if there are no plans for an accompanying miniatures range. No point doing a buntai of a certain Yokai if there is not a single decent miniature to represent said Yokai.

You say that but we have found that the players of IHMN have risen to the challenge and converted and adapted lots of different figures to match ones we have written up but for which there were no commercial equivalents

[Craig]

On the blog the latest design notes looks at the Heroes of Nippon. These are very special individuals that Buntai can hire on a single mission basis. Each Buntai will have access to 2-3 suitable individual heroes. You can read more here:
http://daishogame.wordpress.com/2014/07/05/daisho-design-notes-05-07-2014-heroes-of-nippon/

[Craig]

Our apologies for the long spell between postings but I don't like to write posts just to fill white space.
This weekend we shall be travelling across the UK to my co-author Charles' grand residence.
On Sunday several of our good friends shall also be visiting to run the first full playtests of Daisho.
Although the core of the rules is based on the successful In Her Majesty's Name skirmish system there have been numerous changes, tweaks and new material added to ensure that it is thoroughly Samurai from its toes up.
We shall have some painted and part-painted forces we do not have any Japanese terrain yet. We have been just to busy writing to get anything done. I shall, of course, produce a report and some photographs.
After that there will be a review, possibly a short rewrite, and then we'll be sending playtest rules packs out to our volunteer play-testers (fine chaps all). So expect more reports in late September and through into October.
Serious talks with a possible publisher are underway and once we have a deal we shall reveal them to you.

[Dr DeAth]

We shall have some painted and part-painted forces we do not have any Japanese terrain yet. We have been just to busy writing to get anything done.

If you're looking for Japanese terrain I'd recommend http://www.oshiromodelterrain.co.uk by the LAF's own Jimbibbly, it really is superb:

[carlos13th]

Gotta agree with that. Can't think of any better terrain on the market. If you don't want to paint the 4ground stuff is pretty decent but oshiro would be my go to for future terrain after sampling some of their buildings.

[Craig]

That is seriously nice terrain gentlemen. I'm off to the site now to ogle it

[Craig]

Gentlemen,

Having toured the site I cannot find out if these are Solid Resin or MDF kits (though I suspect the former).

As Daisho is a skirmish game we'd be looking at being able to fight inside buildings as well as around them.

[carlos13th]

They are solid resin.

Check out 4 ground if you want buildings you can enter.

[SotF]

Our apologies for the long spell between postings but I don't like to write posts just to fill white space.
This weekend we shall be travelling across the UK to my co-author Charles' grand residence.
On Sunday several of our good friends shall also be visiting to run the first full playtests of Daisho.
Although the core of the rules is based on the successful In Her Majesty's Name skirmish system there have been numerous changes, tweaks and new material added to ensure that it is thoroughly Samurai from its toes up.
We shall have some painted and part-painted forces we do not have any Japanese terrain yet. We have been just to busy writing to get anything done. I shall, of course, produce a report and some photographs.
After that there will be a review, possibly a short rewrite, and then we'll be sending playtest rules packs out to our volunteer play-testers (fine chaps all). So expect more reports in late September and through into October.
Serious talks with a possible publisher are underway and once we have a deal we shall reveal them to you.

For terrain options, there's a pretty good list on the Ronin forums that's pretty good.

[Craig]

Thanks. I didn't know that there was a dedicated Ronin forum. I'll have to check it out.

[Craig]

The report on the first playtest of the Daishō rules is now on the Daishō blog :
http://daishogame.wordpress.com/2014/09/02/the-first-playtest-of-the-rules/

[Craig]

The work on the Playtest beta Rules continues unabated. For this and other news:
http://daishogame.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/daisho-progress/

[commissarmoody]

Thank you for keeping the info comeing.

[Craig]

Once we get some playtest reports in there'll be a lot more to share

[Craig]

The latest design notes discusses the creation of the Tengu buntai:
http://daishogame.wordpress.com/2014/09/20/designing-the-buntai-the-tengu/

How would you interpret the Tengu for a skirmish game?