AAR- Bushido- Silvermoon Syndicate v. The Shadow Wind Clan

[jlopatin]

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Last night I GM'd a game of Bushido for Tim and Christopher at GreenfireGames. Both players had read over the rules, but had not played a game before. We decided to play a straight match to the death to focus on learning the basic mechanics. The field of battle was the new Bushido board I recently finished. I am really happy with the way it turned out. Tim fielded 3 ninja warriors from the Shadow Wind Clan. Christopher led this ragtag band of thugs and hookers from the Silvermoon Syndicate. We also had some other factions observing the battle: The Prefecture Of Ryu The Ito Clan The ...

[timlillig]

Thanks for running the game, Josh. I'm painting some tengu for next time.

[Eilif]

I was sitting on the sidelines painting and watching the game. There's alot of interesting things going on in the mechanics. Though it's a bit more involved rules-wise that I prefer and not a genre that I'm interested in, it does seem like a game that would play reasonably smoothy and quickly once you had a few games under your belt. Certainly as easy or easier than most other popular games.

One interesting thing that was pointed out to me is that the buy-in for this game is rather low. The minis game rules and cards are free downloads so if someone bought the board-game and expansion they'd already have over 3 factions to play in the miniature wargame version. They would be plastic (possibly PVC?) minis rather than metal, but the boardgame versions I've seen have been quite good looking.