boardgame: Shogun - In Progress

Last edited by Bhodili7 on Wed Dec 23, 2009 10:58 am; edited 5 times in total

Something new to try. Shogun, aka Samurai Swords. Kind of like Axis and Allies. You play as a Leader of a Japanese Clan trying to gain control of Japan, claiming to be the Shogun, or military ruler of Japan. You plan your moves each turn, build army units, castles, hire ronin or even the Ninja! Of course you can also engage in diplomacy.

I will be referee and update the board every turn.

Here is the board with the Provinces abbreviated for an easier read:

Here are the rules.

http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/samuraiswords.pdf

The game isn't too complicated and we will take things step by step. If your willing to try it out I just need know which color you want to be.

Oda Clan - Turbo

Shimazu Clan - Dutch

Asano Clan - Heinz

Mori Clan - Moe

Konishi Clan - Randoom
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:39 am Post subject:

red is a pretty color Wink

if there are more people interested than there are slots, i can drop out, but i'm in so we can have game.

note to self: i might be a board game geek
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i was in the best regiment ever. We Raped the Horses & rode off on the Women

Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 1:55 pm Post subject:

Thank you Turbo. Max is five players, which would be best.
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:06 pm Post subject:

Im can try this one.

Reading the rules as we speak.

Ill take the blue.
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:08 pm Post subject:

Roger
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 3:04 pm Post subject:

I played it once 10 years ago. I take green Very Happy

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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 3:23 pm Post subject:

does some of you know hero quest? I think there is an idea coming up....
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 6:16 pm Post subject:

Schimazu for me Smile

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"Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive le sacre mercenaire."
- Mercenary marching cadence and toast.

Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 6:27 pm Post subject:

If there's still room i'll take Mori Clan.

The rules link seems to be broken for me.
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 6:58 pm Post subject:

Well there's our five. Yeah!

Link works for me. Here I uploaded it to rapidshare:

http://rapidshare.com/files/321726037/SamuraiSwords.pdf.html

Now hold on while I shuffle the cards. Rolling Eyes

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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:01 pm Post subject:

Okay, I shuffled the deck several times, and dealt out everyone 13 province cards and placed a spearman in each province. You control a province when you have a military unit there. Also notice there are three open provinces. Hopefully everyone can make out their spearman. I have to shrink a gigantic map to fit in here.

Anyways, now we will do reinforcements. The process is lenghty, but hopefully we can speed it up by doing it simultaneously. We will place 12 more of your spearman, 2 at a time, in separate provinces and then place each of your three armies. So this will take nine turns to setup, but this is important. You'll want to setup your pieces so that you can begin taking control of a part of the board.

So for now I'll need a PM from each of you, with the three letter abbreviation for the province you want to reinforce with 2 more spearman. Once I get everyone's PM, we can move to the second round of reinforcements.
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:14 pm Post subject:

Awesome.

I found a good video tutorial for the game - http://ia340907.us.archive.org/2/items/BookShelfGamesShogun/BookShelfGamesShogun.avi
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:07 am Post subject:

just re-download it. i had some probs with the file too.

btw, seems like i'm in a pretty tough situation with you pro-veteran-leet boardgamers....
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 5:27 pm Post subject:

cmon fuckers send the pm Smile

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"Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive le sacre mercenaire."
- Mercenary marching cadence and toast.

Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 6:42 pm Post subject:

yeah, i want to get al hikkori-hakkuri on you! Mad

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