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Has anyone given the free starter rules a try yet? I've tried reading through them a couple of times, but I keep getting interrupted.

Old kung fu grand master on a tortoise FTW!!

If nothing else, I will at least get that one mini. Maybe give it a tied-died hippy paint job.

Also, I hope this doesn't start a big debate but...

...It's a tortoise not a turtle.

Turtles live mostly in water and have webbed feet or fins. Tortoises have "normal" feet without webbing and often have claws for digging.

Turtles have flat shells for better hydrodynamics. Tortoises have domed shells for added protection from things falling on them and supporting the weight of kung fu grand masters.

You had me at 'riding a turtle'

Riding a *tortoise*

filbert wrote:Riding a *tortoise*

Don't waste your fingers. We had this argument(well, the monkey vs ape version) with the Jokaero and people STILL call them monkeys.

Kroothawk wrote:

AesSedai wrote:I'm seeing a lot of Rackham Confrontation influence...I'm mean ashigaru goblins?! Don't get me wrong, I think it's great considering nobody has touched that IP. Even the game mechanics seem similar, like the comabt system:

Ashigaru goblins are also part of Legend of the 5 Rings



and Eberron (D&D, 2004). At least the first should predate Rackham's Ashigaru Goblins.

Gnoblars!!!

Clan Wars miniatures are available again: http://www.veltd.net/28mmclanwar.htm

On topic, here another preview, this time of a Kitsune (werefox):

don't you mean were-fox?

http://yaiolani.tripod.com/werefoxes.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsune
http://www.werewolves.com/the-werewolfs-cousin-the-werefox/
(do you also write were-wolf?)

Kroothawk wrote:Clan Wars miniatures are available again: http://www.veltd.net/28mmclanwar.htm

On topic, here another preview, this time of a Kitsune (werefox):

Furries rejoice...

Platuan4th wrote:
Yes, I know. Hence why I said Clan War stopped printing, not L5R. Clan War was released in 98, like I said.

When you put a full stop in front of L5R I assumed you meant the whole line, not everyone pays much attention to the CCG market, so I assumed you where one of those. No worries.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:

Platuan4th wrote:
Yes, I know. Hence why I said Clan War stopped printing, not L5R. Clan War was released in 98, like I said.

When you put a full stop in front of L5R I assumed you meant the whole line, not everyone pays much attention to the CCG market, so I assumed you where one of those. No worries.

It's cool. I only relatively recently stopped playing L5R when they dropped Nezumi as a playable clan in the current organized play(which is all anyone plays here).

I want that monkey. Also, neat Kitsune. Hope that concept art doesn't translate 100% to mini though, I hate the robe off the shoulders look.

Edit- Oh neat, after some reading it looks like both the Monkey and Kitsune are for the same faction, and the one I am interested in at that.

Also there are pics of unpainted mini's in the Factions section of their website. At least for Temple of Ro-Kan.

Platuan4th wrote:

It's cool. I only relatively recently stopped playing L5R when they dropped Nezumi as a playable clan in the current organized play(which is all anyone plays here).

Ouch, didn't realise they'd pulled the rug out from under the Ratlings. Did the same to Naga for a long time when I was a big fan of that faction.

On a side note, started a Lot5r thread for any old fans. Lot5r

Guess it best fits here:
AEG is releasing a L5R boardgame in October called Ninja:
http://www.l5r.com/ninja/

AvatarForm wrote:

Kroothawk wrote:Clan Wars miniatures are available again: http://www.veltd.net/28mmclanwar.htm

On topic, here another preview, this time of a Kitsune (werefox):

Furries rejoice...

Darn Tootin!!!!

I love the goblin dudes...they look like the ones from the movie Gremlins, just with a Japanese twist.

More previews: Nezumi WIP and rat swarm:

How did the convention where they released the game go?

Also those minis look amazing!!

Some more previews:

Ooooo, great ninja sculpt!

Edit: Just notice the ogre thing has 3 eyes! cool

I am excited about both this and the LFR board game.

Yes, very nice! I showed this thread to the wife when it first posted and even She-Who-Does-Not-Wargame gave it consideration, if for nothing other than the models.

The price tag is a little high for our budget, especially given the shipping to get it from the UK, but if a US distributor picks it up I'll be on it like white on rice. (rimshot, please)

Any news on when they will start selling individual miniatures?

Not so thrilled by their generic samurai but I will probably buy:
- Peasants of the Ro-Kan
- Kairai
- Kato Kubiashi, the Puppet Master
- Ninja
- Kitsune
- Nezumi
- Rat swarms
- ...
- and many other "not silly looking" miniatures (I'm no fan of comic relief-miniatures and want my monsters looking evil).

BTW:
I highly recommend buying Clan War minis from
http://www.veltd.net/28mmclanwar.htm
The best source for fantasy-ish samurai on the web.

Gavin Thorne wrote:Yes, very nice! I showed this thread to the wife when it first posted and even She-Who-Does-Not-Wargame gave it consideration, if for nothing other than the models.

The price tag is a little high for our budget, especially given the shipping to get it from the UK, but if a US distributor picks it up I'll be on it like white on rice. (rimshot, please)

Warpath games is the US distributor for the bushido game and as far as i know are selling the stuff as of july 11,

You're right!

http://www.warpathgames.com/wholesale/warpath.php?m=search&s=bushido

Kitsune green


Nezumi


Oni Bobata


Still no way to buy individual minis though :(

Still no way to buy individual minis though :(

I can see the appeal, especially if you just want the one model for another system, but they come out to around $7-10 a miniature which is very comparable to, say Reaper's pricing scheme. I imagine the resell market for breaking the group packs would be pretty decent as a result, ala Heroscape.

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Furri-

I won't go there. I like the oni, possible Ogre Kingdoms alternate minis.

These are really good sculpts.