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The Commands & Colors: Samurai Battles wargame rules allow players to portray important engagements of Japanese history. The battles, included in the scenario booklet, focus on the historical deployment of forces and important terrain features in scale with the game system. The scale of the game is flexible and varies from battle to battle. For some scenarios, an infantry unit may represent an entire clan of soldiers, while in other scenarios a unit may represent just a few brave warriors.
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Year Published
2021
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- discovering new battles and history
- novel card mechanisms that spice up play
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Thematic elements
- samurai warfare across historical battles
- feudal Japan
- historicized battles with a deck variant and unique dragon-like cards
Comparison games
- Samurai Battles
- Ancients
- Napoleonics
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- dragon cards / special action cards — A deck of cards that can disrupt or boost plans, adding intrigue to each move.
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- There' s just be some random carnage before the game played out.
- dragon cards... there were like a whole another deck of cards that can throw monkey wrenches into what you know your opponent's trying to do.
- it's such a great system and we ended up playing seven or eight games that night.
- I absolutely love the Napoleonic era, Napoleonic warfare.
- my number one Commands and Colors game of all time. That is Memoir 44 with the Overlord expansion.
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