First Game, First Impressions!
So last night I had my first game of Bushido at Dundee
Wargames against John Sinclair who ran me through the basics of how to play! I was genuinely surprised just how much I
enjoyed the game once I got to grips with the basics and realised how
tactically involved the game play was.
We opted to keep things very simple for the purposes of
learning the basics of movement and combat so we only used the starter sets
from Tengu and the Ryu. The game was a
straight up kill your opponent and take the glory.
The Board during deployment.
Further Deployment
Ryu moving up, Minuro takes a shot and does 5 damage to Kotenbo!
Combat Begins!
Due to some very nice rolling on my part (for once), the
Tengu were wiped out and I lost a Nameless Yari.
Great introduction game from John who helped me out A LOT and was learning the ropes with his stunning new warband.
Best bits?
The Game as a whole is great. Considering we had 5 characters each on a
2x2, it felt huge and was a lot of fun.
It’s very tactically orientated in the sense of who to activate and
when, watching you don’t get out numbered or worse exhausted too quickly. Ki management is also crucial as I discovered
with my Samurai who cleaved some poor sod in two.
But the best bit is melee attacking for me. When you attack, you roll however many dice
your character has minus or plus modifiers.
But before rolling, you allocate that amount of dice to Attack or
Defence as your opponent is also attacking/defending against you. So if you go all out and roll 3 attack and he
rolls 2 defence and 1 attack, they can still defend your attack and then score
an undefended attack against you! Really
nice mechanic there.
Bushido is very daunting to begin with. Lots to learn throughout, especially synergy between models, but once you get in to it... it's brilliant and really good fun.
So overall I had a great nights gaming and I'm looking to get cracking on the painting soon!
Steve
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