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Design Considerations for Ikko-Ikki Units

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  I started creating another army so that I can design historical scenarios that involve the Ikko-Ikki. Photo shows the progress of the project. As you can see I am using the Peasant Levy Unit art for Ikko-Ikki for now as I think the illustration is appropriate enough. However I will not likely use the levy unit rules for the Ikki units as I find them extremely underwhelming even when going beyond the 3 unit cap in the base game armies. So far I have a few unit design ideas for Ikki units: Ikki version 1 (swarm type): Light Foot Unit (follow armor and stature rules) 4 blocks Movement: 0-2 and battle Retreat: 1 Close combat: 2 dice, hit on sword Range combat : X Special: Opportunist strike - after any friendly unit attacks an enemy unit (close or range), this unit may conducts bonus attack against the same unit if able. This action does not require the Ikki unit to be ordered and can be performed by the same unit for an unlimited number of times a turn against one or more targets. I...

Nagashino 05: Battle of Fort Maruyama

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(Also appended to the campaign post so all scenarios for the project are in one place) Scenario 05 Soundtrack: