A little info about my samurai game

I think you are saying they'd have to leave after the battle, which brings up questions like where do they go? Can you end up with units in different places than they started?

You said the thing you like about the combat was the simple elegance of it. I think it would be more elegant not to be moving units all the time, so it'd probably be most clear/elegant to just pick the "Contested" space or tile and then all the units touching it are automatically on offense and all the opposing units touching it are automatically on defense.

I thought of Shogun, only I don't have it and don't know where to look for similar minis like that.

I would like to see the game in action without cards first, to see what the cards would really add. Perhaps a good thing to reward with a card draw would be to capture a village, or else to have other features (besides Villages and rice Fields) on tiles... I like that you have to decide weather to occupy a Ridce Field OR a village- you need villages to win (or even to get reinforcements the way I'd do it), but you need Rice fields to support the troops. A delicate balance.

This is why I think no tiles should have both a Village AND a Rice field (or no space anyway).

So maybe there's a feature that is a Dojo, and at the Dojo you draw a card (a reinforcement card, maybe a 'ninja attack' card which you use in combat, maybe you forego your Archery round and instead assasinate a unit- note this would be useful if the Defender chooses casualties- might have to specify that you can't assassinate a Daimyo that way).

Another thought I had the other day was that you actually get 1 action per unit, and the action the unit can take might depend on the tile features, like in a Village they can recruit... in a Dojo I guess they could draw a card... in any case they could Move... in a rice field then get no additional benefit because they are busy harvesting rice.

Is there a particular reason you want tiles to have both a Rice field AND a Village... let alone ALL tiles?

If the tiles are all the same then I think it takes away a large part of the tile laying aspect. Why bother, you know?

If it's just some of the tiles that have the features and some are blank then there's still the issue that you want to control allt he tiles with features indescriminantly. There's no tension in having to choose between this tile and that tile because both would be equivalent.

I think about 80% of your game rests on the choice- do I control the Rice Field to support another army, or do I control a Village to try and win (or do whatever else a Village might do- like allow you to recruit a unit for example)?

- Seth

Something I might have misunderstood before... when you place a unit on a tile, do you control that whole tile (rice and village)? Or just one of the two (per unit)?

Looks fine. Perhaps in the future you might provide links to pictures rather than including them in the forum post? They are very slow to load (on my dial up connection, at least) and now every time someone wants to look at this thread, they have to wait for all the images to download even if they've seen them 10 times before. I don't know if we have a formal policy on this or not.

-Jeff