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Those of you who know me will know I am a pretty big fan of Samurai when it comes to war gaming. They are awesome to paint and Samurai movies and battles make great war gaming fodder. Daisho is another game I plan to add to my collection to give me an excuse to get more of my Samurai models painted. .

Played this game at salute and had a blast even though the misses won initiative every round and kicked the gak outta me., its based on similar rules to In Her majesty's name giving you a. Number of models wise its similar to Ronin so you could happily use any existing Ronin Buntais for Daisho. The game has a more mystical flavor with more emphasis on mythical creatures and magical powers but they are not essential. A great way to use any Samurai models you have or want along with some Oni or other mystical creatures you may have.

The writer Craig recommends roughly three different levels of play depending on the type of experience (or movie) you would like to recreate.

Daisho lets you play at three levels;
1. Historical (i.e. Kagemusha), you just ignore all the mystical and extraordinary skills and creatures.
2. Heroic (i.e. 13 Assassins), add in the rules for heroes channelling their Ki to perform extraordinary feats.
3. Legendary (i.e. 47 Ronin), use the full set of magical powers and mythical creatures.

With an open points system you will be able to develop and field pretty much anything you want, you are not stuck with the buntai and creatures published in the book. If this goes the way of IHMN then we and the players shall be devising heaps of extra, free, material over the coming months and years.

http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=7585

Anyone hopping on this? I shall be.

I shall certainly pick up a copy when it makes it over here.

I took a look at the QRS and it looks functionally identical to IHMN. Unless the reviews point out something amazing I'm not seeing I'll probably just stick with Ronin for sengoku skirmish and use some of the Japanese lists from Sleeping Dragon Rising Sun for more mystical samurai action.

I'm planning on picking it up at a future date.

Apparently its the same basic system as IHMN to the point where if you want more modern Samurai and to set it in the Boshin war you can you take items from IHMN and use them.

They are shipping these now. My copy arrived today. On a quick flick through it looks nice but I haven't got an indepth look at it yet.

 wana10 wrote:
I took a look at the QRS and it looks functionally identical to IHMN. Unless the reviews point out something amazing I'm not seeing I'll probably just stick with Ronin for sengoku skirmish and use some of the Japanese lists from Sleeping Dragon Rising Sun for more mystical samurai action.

Although Daisho does indeed share a common set of core rules it takes them in quite a different direction.

For example without Daisho your heroes will not be able to tap into their ki to perform extraordinary feats of arms. You will not get the full Japanese armoury, the extensive bestiary of legendary creatures, the genre specific skills and powers, the nine ordinary and three legendary buntai, the option to hire Heroes, the unique scenarios or the campaign system.

Ronin is an excellent game but it does not reflect the full majesty of the myths and legends of old Nippon.

Cheers,
Craig.

Is this not available in the americas? Its like $30 shipped from their site

ArtIsGreat wrote:
Is this not available in the americas? Its like $30 shipped from their site

It certainly is, from Brigade Games: http://brigadegames.3dcartstores.com/Daisho-Skirmish-Wargaming-Rules-in-Mystical-Japan_p_4428.html

Cheers,
Craig Cartmell

Picked the rules up after playing a game at the York show. The game played very well and it's nice to own a ruleset that lets me use all the historical and fantasy Japanese models I have from different games.

I have a bunch of old 'Clan War' models and have been eyeing the Perry samurai range so this might be just the thing I've been looking for.

I've heard of a few people digging out old clan wars stuff for daisho

Trying to salvage the minis from Ninja All Stars boardgame, looks like most of them can fit right into Daisho