Oriental Brettonians?

[beestieboy]

So brettonains are comming out and they look way cool. I also saw the movie The Last Samurai and in the midst of pondering, I was thinking a Samurai army would rule! The feudal system keeps with the fluff of the Brettonians and GW needs to do something with the orient. I mean they talk about Nippon and Cathy all the time, but no models. I know I\'ve seen a line of cool Oriental minis out there somewhere before, but I can\'t remember for the life of me. Adding big ornate armour plates and fancy oriental helmets is the first step. This is probably biting off way more than I wanna chew, but I think I wanna try it. Any suggestions and comments would be welcome.

 

[SaintRigger]

The CLan Wars models kick much samuari butt.. I\'m not sure if there are a ton of mounted models, but there are definately really cool footmen.
They are out of print, but you can still find them pretty easily.

 

[Samurai_Girl]

For Clan War use Unicorn Clan.. they have mounted archers, light and heavy cavalry, and mounted infantry. Also there\'s \"unaligned\" infantry boxes that have 6 each with yari (spear) and katana, so they work nicely. Also Unicorn Clan has shiotome - heavy female cavalry with heavy barding.

Unfortunately Clan War stopped production over a year ago so you will probly need to scour ebay for them.

 

[zenmaster]

Samurai

Reaper will be selling alot of the old clanwar stuff. So keep an eye out for it Samurai girl.

 

[Samurai_Girl]

Yeah I\'ve seen a couple they have released.

 

[PF]

In fact you could use all the clans from Clan War as the designs were pretty close to historical samurai.Strings on armors and sashimono (back banners) are a good way to make the army look more uniformized.
However,Clan Wars were a bit taller then GW and much more thinner and mixing them with GW shouldn\'t be a very good idea IMHO.
And yes there weren\' t a lot of mounted minis that\'s what I played them as Wood elves or High elves but mostly cause I wanted to field unarmored monks and ninjas as wardancers or scouts.That was the lone battle of warhammer I ever played and my 10000pts have been wiped out pretty easily by these damn orcs!However that was fun!