Bushido - New Oriental Fantasy Skirmish Game

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**Kroothawk**

Thanks to Brother Loki on Warseer for bringing this to my attention. Here his post:

Hi all

Last weekend at UK Games Expo I came across the launch of a new oriental fantasy skirmish game called Bushido, which was being launched at the event. It's from a new British company called GCT Studios. I was really impressed with some of the models, so I picked up a couple of starters - there are currently 4 faction starters containing the rules, stat cards, dice and 5-6 minis each. They're quite similar to the starters for Infinity or Warmachine.

The factions are:

The Temple of Ro-Kan - Shaolin-style kung-fu monks, led by an ancient master riding a turtle.
The Savage Wave - Creatures from Asian myth, like Bakemono (goblins) and Oni (ogre/demons)
The Prefecture of Ryu - Fairly standard samurai and Ashigaru
The Cult of Yurei - Necromancers, undead Geisha and zombies animated by porcelain masks.

I haven't played it yet, but the quickstart rules seem fairly straightforward and the models are gorgeous and very evocative, although a couple of them were tricky to assemble due to quite small points of contact with arms to shoulders etc. There's some quite neat and innovative mechanics to do with dice pools in attack and defence for combat, and each model has a stat card with its own abilities - much like Warmachine.

I picked up the Temple of Ro-Kan and Cult of Yurei starters, based purely on them having the most unusual models. Once I've got them painted I'll play a game or two and report back. In the meantime you can see pics of the models and download the quickstart rules at:

http://www.bushido-thegame.com/

Pete

Here some pics of the starters:

The Temple of Ro-Kan
http://www.bushido-thegame.com/rokanbox

The Savage Wave
http://www.bushido-thegame.com/savagewbox

The Prefecture of Ryu
http://www.bushido-thegame.com/ryubox

The Cult of Yurei
http://www.bushido-thegame.com/yureibox

Future releases:

WIP for temple:

Concept Nezumi for cult:

**Chaplain Pallantide**

Looks interesting, when I have more time I will have to check out the quick start rules. I wonder how much each starter will cost?

I am drawn more toward skirmish games now more than ever and this one looks pretty cool.

**Wolf**

Is that an old guy, riding a tortoise ?

That's pretty sweet !

**augustus5**

Cool, here is another place my would-have-been GW dollars can now go to.

**Grot 6**

Those look like some really high quality miniatures there.

LOVE that old master on the turtle thing, and the game looks cool!

Great find!

**kenshin620**

I've seen their site, they got some really nice things

Although it makes me wish there was a bit more popularity with eastern style wargames. Especially in the plastic department

**cpt_fishcakes**

Brilliant looking minis they got there, looks like a possible future purchase to me.

The skirmish market is certainly booming at the moment.

One down side is this guy

http://www.bushido-thegame.com/kairai

He gives me childhood flashbacks to Noseybonk, the single most sinister creation ever unleashed onto a TV screen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_1QyOQDx6w

**Platuan4th**

cpt_fishcakes wrote:

He gives me childhood flashbacks to Noseybonk, the single most sinister creation ever unleashed onto a TV screen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_1QyOQDx6w

Jesus, dude. That's horrendous and would definitely terrify me as a child.

And to think, at first I thought you were linking to something like Candle Cove.

**Grot 6**

cpt_fishcakes wrote:Brilliant looking minis they got there, looks like a possible future purchase to me.

The skirmish market is certainly booming at the moment.

One down side is this guy

http://www.bushido-thegame.com/kairai

He gives me childhood flashbacks to Noseybonk, the single most sinister creation ever unleashed onto a TV screen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_1QyOQDx6w

What has been seen can never be unseen.

That guys going to give me nightmares, NOW.

**porkuslime**

I wonder if this has any tie-in to the old RolePlayingGame Bushido? Me and my brother spent hours playing that game..

Fantasy Games Unlimited ftw!

Edit: Heck, I remember when White Dwarf had Bushido RPG articles.. lol

**Aerethan**

At $45 per starter set it would cost $90 to get a 2 person game going. Seems steep, but if the full rules are included in that price then I'll end up playing it with my wife.

As someone already stated, this is money that GW could have earned from me, but they haven't and now I'm looking into branching out to other companies and will likely discontinue my GW purchases and simply play warhammer with what I already own.

**AvatarForm**

If they scale correctly, these would be awesome for Malifaux "counts as" proxies in a Kirai crew...

Otherwise, dont play the game with them and simply paint them for enjoyment and display purposes.

**Ventusgermany**

They really got problems with the faces, I don´t like them.
What looked good at the concept art is a mess in the minis!

**Kilkrazy**

A lot of that is the painting. For example the Kung Fu girl has been painted with really heavy eyebrows.

**MightyGodzilla**

Looks interesting. There aren't enough good samurai minis out there. Old dude on the turtle is pretty sweet.

**Rymafyr**

I like what I see so far of the range...I'm just hoping that you'll have some more variety in the figures instead of only one of each

**Wehrkind**

I rather like theses, especially the ashigaru gobbos. Very nice little guys

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Definitely want to see unpainted models though, as some of the faces look really ham fisted as is.

**AesSedai**

This game looks AWESOME!

The models look great, especially the Cult of Yurai faction. 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:

There's some quite neat and innovative mechanics to do with dice pools in attack and defence for combat, and each model has a stat card with its own abilities

Being a huge confrontation fan and collector, I'm totally excited by this news...

**Kroothawk**

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.

**AesSedai**

Yeah, I played L5R. Good game. I remember the goblins being involved. AFAIK, the first of Rackham's Asian goblins also came out in 2004. I don't know who got there first in terms of minis.

**Sarrazon**

I'm a biiig fan of the Savage Wave and the Cult. The Temple looks like it could be interesting, but I'd like to get some unpainted shots, and that part of their website is down. The Prefecture is honestly just kinda visually uninteresting, despite being decent models.

**Clang**

Sudden crazed urge to use that gorilla for a counts-as Thunderwolf for a really original Space Wolves army

**Noisy_Marine**

I like the Nezumi concept art. Hopefully they'll release more of those models so you can play a rat army.

As is I kinda like the undead army. The Oni in the Savage Wave isn't scary enough for my tastes.

**greenskin lynn**

Not gonna lie, i want to pick up a copy of the oni model to paint, the goblins remind me of the movie gremlins though

**Pael**

This game looks really cool can't wait to pick up a starter set.

The rules seem pretty solid being easy to pick up but still having a few innovative concepts

**Platuan4th**

AesSedai wrote:Yeah, I played L5R. Good game. I remember the goblins being involved. AFAIK, the first of Rackham's Asian goblins also came out in 2004. I don't know who got there first in terms of minis.

L5R. Clan War(released in 98) stopped printing years before Confrontation was released.

**JOHIRA**

Ventusgermany wrote:They really got problems with the faces, I don´t like them.

I agree with some of them, but some are okay.

More worrying to me about the Kung Fu girl is not just face. I could deal with the panty flash on its own. But it appears that she also has nipple tips moulded into her outfit. The combination just really looks a bit classless and out of place compared to the rest of her faction. In fact, I'm having trouble with her clothes in general. I'm no expert, but I don't recognize her outfit and I'm not convinced it ever existed. Which bothers me because they otherwise appear to have done their homework pretty well. I would hope the sculptor didn't just invent an anachronistic outfit just to have an excuse for fan-service. I'd rather they just put her in some

pants or if they must go the titillation route, a qípáo.

It's an unfortunate blemish on an otherwise solid line.

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

Platuan4th wrote:
AesSedai wrote:Yeah, I played L5R. Good game. I remember the goblins being involved. AFAIK, the first of Rackham's Asian goblins also came out in 2004. I don't know who got there first in terms of minis.

L5R. Clan War(released in 98) stopped printing years before Confrontation was released.

The CCG released in 1995, hasn't stopped, it had a brief pause, where for a sec it seemed it was going to fold, but bang, kept on going. So Lot5r has pretty much been solid since its release, coming up to 16yrs ago. The Miniature game Clan War not so much, but the RPG still releases something now and again. Lot5r RPG has got to 4th edition.

To be honest had a small company contacted Alderac and set up a Skirmish game using Lot5r as a basis, I'd be all over it. The number of characters and storylines the CCG has followed over the years have been amazing and I love the Clans set up and the Shadowlands as the big bad.

This looks nice, but probably not for me.

**thesilverback**

Looks interesting so may have to give it a try.

**Platuan4th**

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:
Platuan4th wrote:
AesSedai wrote:Yeah, I played L5R. Good game. I remember the goblins being involved. AFAIK, the first of Rackham's Asian goblins also came out in 2004. I don't know who got there first in terms of minis.

L5R. Clan War(released in 98) stopped printing years before Confrontation was released.

The CCG released in 1995, hasn't stopped, it had a brief pause, where for a sec it seemed it was going to fold, but bang, kept on going. So Lot5r has pretty much been solid since its release, coming up to 16yrs ago. The Miniature game Clan War not so much, but the RPG still releases something now and again. Lot5r RPG has got to 4th edition.

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