Test of Honour - Battle of the Mill Temple

 Well, it's been all a minute! 

Neil suggested a game of Test of Honour, which neither of us have played since Neil absolutely trounced me in my first attempt at playing...

My list was almost the same, The boss was an Onna Bugeisha as my armoured samurai hero, a devoted samurai follower and a battleworn samurai as retainers, bows, arquibusiers, spears. This time I dropped the second spears and took a veteran Ashugari sergeant and a single spearman to get to exactly 24 points. 

My mob assembled.

Neil putting his boys through their paces. 

I mean, it's great looking terrain Neil owns. Really looks atmospheric. 

Oh yeah, he split his forces in two, either side of the stream, so I matched him as much as possible.

His bows and spears cone down Neil's left, his hero clashes with mine. My retainer follows up as Neil's crosses the bridge.

My ashugaru with Tepu unleash a volley at the Samurai crossing the bridge.

And their shots strike true! 

Neil's first gero is down. My luck was incredible here 

The other side of the bridge, however, my boss lady fails to get anywhere against Neil's boss, not does my devoted retainer , in fact she damages herself more than Neil does initially and falls over. 

Neil's other retainer rounds the building and heads towards my battle worn retainer while his archer snipe at my lone ashugaru spearman. Not a single wound though 

My battle worn retainer manages to fluff her attacks. 

Even my solo spearman joined in, but these Samurai are really hard. Could not scratch him 

Meanwhile, on the other side of the bridge, a massive brawl breaks out. Both of us have heroes and spearmen in the fights, buoyed on by my sergeant who adds an extra attack for the spears. However, his spears skewer my devoted retainer. Neither archer unit does anything worthwhile. 

The other side of the stream, despite their best efforts, my battleworn Samurai and the lone spearman, they fail to damage Neil's retainer. 

My ashugaru with Tepu reload and blast a second volley, killing another hero!

They really paid for themselves that night 

Neil cut down my boss lady, and then set about trying to off my Ashugaru, taking down a spearman 

Which causes my boys to scatter, he also offs my veteran sergeant Ashugari.

Back over the water, my Battleworn Samurai slams into and kills one of Neil's spears. The blood.drop on the archers is a self-inflicted wound.

Neil's hero wand spears waded into my archers, killing one, while my Battle hardened retainer kills one of Neil's spears. At this point, we both called it a draw and a night.

I really enjoyed this game, it was on a knife edge all the way through. Definitly one to refight soon.

It is familiar enough to the Mortal Gods system to get straight in, and that's a system that really works well for a good evening's skirmish, but had subtle changes that work really well in period, such as Samurai being hard hitters, but at times sucumb to wounds and either die heroically, or stupidly!