Design Considerations for Ikko-Ikki Units
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:
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. If the Ikki unit happens to be ordered, it may conduct its normal, active close combat as usual in the same turn and the two types of combats do not conflict or replace each other. The enemy unit battles back only after all Ikki bonus combats are resolved, and may only battle back against the original attacking unit. Leader inspiration cannot be applied to Ikki bonus attacks.
Light Foot Unit (follow armor and stature rules)
6 blocks
Movement: 0-2 and battle
Retreat: 1
Close combat: 3 dice, hit on sword. 2 dice after the third block loss.
Range combat : X
Special: Before the third block loss, may ignore 1 flag.
Light Foot Unit (follow armor and stature rules)
4 blocks
Movement: 0-2 and battle
Retreat: 1-3 (player choice, but only loses 1 token).
Close combat: 2 dice, hit on sword.
Range combat : 2 dice hold, 1 die move
Range: 2
Special: May convert 1 sword rolled against it into a flag per combat. Retreating causes a maximum of 1 token loss per combat regardless of the number of flags or the number of hexes this unit retreats.
These types of units may co-exist to make the combat more dynamic for the Ikki factions. Though I will probably need new illustrations in order to create the unit blocks to distinguish between them.
Let me know what you think of these units the comments below! Also please share with me any illustrations that are appropriate to use for these unit blocks. Thanks!!
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