The Aburanokōji Incident

A Test of Honour game The Shinsengumi was a police force raised by the Tokugawa in the dying days of the Shogunate to police Kyoto for anti-Bakufu extremists. The core of the unit was a group of swordsmen from a kenjutsu school owned by the Shinsengumi's leader, Kondō Isami. The Shinsengumi sprang to prominence when…

Boshin War with Combat Patrol

The Boshin War period was one I initially got into primarily because I wanted to play the Combat Patrol rules, and I'm not the biggest fan of platoon-level WW2. So, after a few weeks, we finally got around to trying it out. The action was a pretty straightforward one, basically being the usual unimaginative 'meeting…