Oriental Miniature board games

[darkartminiatures]

Anyone know of any Oriental miniature table-top, boardgames and i don\'t mean really small ones. I Know of Clan war but are there anymore out there. I think there was one called Bushido (not sure) if so is that a cool game? Anyway thanks in advance.

 

[minimaker]

Bushido was a role playing game. I don\'t know if there was a tabeltop version of it. At this moment I can think of other major specific Oriental table top systems.
There are a few plans around for systems based on the Chinese romance of the three kingdoms novel/era. But last news I had was that the projects are on hold. Same for the board and role play game. Only the cardgames are done. There are also two mods written for Rome total war for this period. First one will appear at the end of the month.
Some more generic systems like warhammer ancient and another large historical system have extensions for different armies, including Asian ones.
I assume, this is Oriental as the whole of Eastern Asia, and not just Japan?

 

[darkartminiatures]

Thanks minimaker. I was mainly thinking of Chinese and Japanese genres. Rome sounds interesting have you any links?

 

[Sand Rat]

DM - Milton Bradley put out one called Samurai for a while - bout the same time that they and GW got together with that thing that they both put out.

 

[minimaker]

Originally posted by darkartminiaturesRome sounds interesting have you any links?

Just to avoid misunderstanding: I mean the computer game here.
Zhanguo TW: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=72 and
ROTK TW: http://generalscollective.com/forums/index.php?board=45

You may be interested in this thread over here too then:
http://www.frothersunite.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6235&sid=259e933d5a08f2b1129ab118dbe3570d
We\'re discussing things on Chinese uniforms and so.

 

[darkartminiatures]

Thanks folks.

 

[supervike]

Originally posted by steelcult
DM - Milton Bradley put out one called Samurai for a while - bout the same time that they and GW got together with that thing that they both put out.

I thought that was called Shogun....but maybe it went through a name change.

I remember the game, as it was in the same vein as the AXIS AND ALLIES game, tons of little minis, decent sized board, complex rules.

I think they had one on the Roman empire for a while as well....

 

[Holy Smigs]

Reaper did the L5R samurai for a while... dunno how big a game it was designed for, but the minis are nice...

and Urban Mammoth (the new Ikore people) have Urban War which has some sci-fi style samurai in it...

 

[darkartminiatures]

The Legend of the five rings was named Clan wars...i think. Yeah I-kore have some cool minis. Reapers L5R minis are cool aswell...apart form the bent rubber weapon syndrome alot of the minis have...but i better not go down that road.

So can i not buy these games mentioned anymore? Is it that most folk don\'t like samuria games or something?

 

[Sanitarium]

Well some of my friends play Shogun-preatty much like and upgraded variant of Risk with some more options and ninjas (resembles a bit the omonimous PC game from the Total war serie).

 

[vincegamer]

Originally posted by supervike

Originally posted by steelcult
DM - Milton Bradley put out one called Samurai for a while - bout the same time that they and GW got together with that thing that they both put out.

I thought that was called Shogun....but maybe it went through a name change.

I remember the game, as it was in the same vein as the AXIS AND ALLIES game, tons of little minis, decent sized board, complex rules.

I think they had one on the Roman empire for a while as well....

The game was originally released as SHOGUN, but due to some legal difficulties they rereleased it with the name SAMURAI SWORDS. I sold my copy on eBay. I think I got around $65 for it.
It is a great game. Well worth the play. I had this idea that I would paint the armies that came in it, but I\'ve just got too much other stuff to paint.
The minis were decent quality, and around 20mm I\'d guess.
It\'s not so much based on the minis though - minis represent different unit types, but not individuals, and you can\'t vary them.

The series was called \"Battlemasters\" by MB and included AXIS & ALLIES (wwII), CONQUEST OF THE EMPIRE (Rome) and FORTRESS AMERICA (Sci-Fi) - the paperwork in the games said there was one called BROADSIDE which had a model boat and minis of pirates, but I\'ve never actually seen one and don\'t know if it was ever produced.

I had all but FA, and sold all on eBay. It was hard to do, but I never played them and felt their value would be better realized as cash I could turn into minis.

 

[supervike]

I was just baiting the Hook!!

Originally posted by vincegamer

Originally posted by supervike

Originally posted by steelcult
DM - Milton Bradley put out one called Samurai for a while - bout the same time that they and GW got together with that thing that they both put out.

I thought that was called Shogun....but maybe it went through a name change.

I remember the game, as it was in the same vein as the AXIS AND ALLIES game, tons of little minis, decent sized board, complex rules.

I think they had one on the Roman empire for a while as well....

The game was originally released as SHOGUN, but due to some legal difficulties they rereleased it with the name SAMURAI SWORDS. I sold my copy on eBay. I think I got around $65 for it.
It is a great game. Well worth the play. I had this idea that I would paint the armies that came in it, but I\'ve just got too much other stuff to paint.
The minis were decent quality, and around 20mm I\'d guess.
It\'s not so much based on the minis though - minis represent different unit types, but not individuals, and you can\'t vary them.

The series was called \"Battlemasters\" by MB and included AXIS & ALLIES (wwII), CONQUEST OF THE EMPIRE (Rome) and FORTRESS AMERICA (Sci-Fi) - the paperwork in the games said there was one called BROADSIDE which had a model boat and minis of pirates, but I\'ve never actually seen one and don\'t know if it was ever produced.

I had all but FA, and sold all on eBay. It was hard to do, but I never played them and felt their value would be better realized as cash I could turn into minis.

I knew you\'d know the answer to that! I remember when you were selling those games on Ebay...I should have bid on Samurai Swords/Shogun...

I still have Axis and Allies, and used to have Fortress America. I sold FA on Ebay for 85 bucks or so!! The cool thing about the cover art on that game was that mine had a portrait of Saddam Hussien, and this was long before he was America\'s Most Hated. (well, 2nd most hated)

I remember the little flyer for the Broadside game as well....that one looked so cool, but like you said, I never saw it anywhere but on the flyer.

 

[Naukhel]

I have a copy of Shogun/Samurai Swords if you want to make an offer on it.
It\'s missing one of the \'turn swords\' though (for turn 5), because I used it for a conversion on Verocithrax.
Honkin\' big dragon wielding a honkin\' big sword.