The Samurai Battle's tabletop conversion continues. 16th Century Japan has always held a fascination for me. Back in the late nineties, I amassed a sizable collection of Samurai figures and tried several different rule sets. (Killer Katana's was one of my favorites) I haven't played with them in ages, and they have languished on the shelves for years. My infatuation with Command and Colors resulted in my Purchase of Zvesda's Samurai Battles game. I quite enjoy the game, so I am making my Samurai army the first to convert to new basing.
I've mentioned before a desire to move to single unit basing, and the new hex mat gave me an idea... While perusing the flooring section at Home Depot for idea on the new house, I stumbled on to their samples for the Allure laminate flooring system.
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The samples come in 4" squares and are half the thickness of the normal flooring. (2mm instead of 4mm) They are heavy gauge, cut easily with a tile knife. I grabbed several samples to try out.
The next step is to turn this:
into this:
I really like the heft and look of the large unit bases. I am going with 18-21 figures in three ranks for each infantry base, and 14-16 missile troops in two ranks. As a later project I am going to make some Pavice stands to add to the missile troops when they are in the defense.
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| The Samurai I am going a little more "open order" than the Ashigaru |
The cavalry are just 8 figs to a stand, and I am going to keep my commanders on 2"x 1.5" bases. Here is my first completed formation. The "yellow army"
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