Unheroic Samurai Rules One Brain Cell Rules for Fighting Undead Horrors in Classical Japan.Unheroic Samurai are rules for playing a wargame with toy soldiers. Its intended for several players – say 4 or more. Players control significant leaders – the key samurai of a clan, who in turn have contingents of fighters under them.
These brave samurai find themselves opposed by hordes of undead horrors – the Oyoma. Why ‘One Brain Cell’? Well, many sets of wargame rules these days can horrendously complicated, with thick rule books to read. Dozens of additional books to get (at unreasonable expense) and exceptionally complicated rule mechanisms that take ages to work out.
My brain is too simple for this. So I tend to write rules that only require a single brain cell to use and understand. This tends to make games easy to learn and play. And just as much fun as the dense and complicated game rules for which you have to pay a fortune. Odd, isn’t it?
Simulate the epic battles of the samurai
These rules allow you to fight battles between samurai and hordes of the undead.
Theres many sets of rules that simulate the epic battles of the samurai. And a number of games about individual skirmishing. These rules are intended for situation in between these two scales. With the added dimension of an enemy that does not fight honourably. And refuses to die easily (or sometimes refuses to die at all).
In this game, players are significant individual, leaders with great martial skills. And they have a following composed of their friends, family, vassals and servants that must swear to do their duty to their clan.
This means that the composition of the force controlled by a player can be highly varied.
The situation will be based on a scenario and it is entirely possible that whilst the overall aim is to destroy the Undead Horrors. Players might have individual objectives that do not preclude in-fighting or settling old scores between players.
The rules written with 25mm, 28mm scale figures in mind. But there is no reason why they can’t used for other figure scales – or even played with cardboard figures or counters depending on the sort of resources you have at your disposal.
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