Bushidan: Miniatures Rules for Small-Unit Warfare in Japan, 1543 to 1615 AD

The later Sengoku period is the era of warfare depicted in classical Japanese movies such as The Seven Samurai, Ran, and Kagemusha – a colorful period that has a very distinct difference in the arms, equipment, tactics and culture from that seen in Europe at the time. It is a period that sees the dominance of firearms in warfare, and the evolution of increasingly complex small—unit tactical systems. But there still remained a heroic ethos, where leaders and the bearers of age—old honored na...