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would you use the mid 16th Cen PDF for Samurai?
I do hope you offer English versions of the Samurai offerings!
It is one of the next things to be done… I hope to finish it soon…. That, and details of the generic rule for cavalry, and another document to complete the Dark Ages PDFs… The privateers & pirates extension will wait a bit…
http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/en.html
https://www.anargader.net/Oh and I didn’t mention that the very basic core of the rules can be easily adapted for simple games with children…
Give a handful of warriors on foot armed with swords and/or spears or bows to each player, forget other weapons.
Shooting table as usual for bows: 5-6 to hit at 0-20 cm, 6 to hit at 20-40 cm, do not use 40-60 cm range;
–1 to die roll for archer moving, –1 if target somewhat protected by terrain, –1 at chain mail or breastplate;
allow foot archers to shoot in movement;
archers cannot shoot and strike in melee in the same game turn.
Melee as usual: hit if die roll exceeds class and also exceeds armour, recoil if die roll equals class (or higher than class but not than armour), missed if smaller than class.
Movement can be limited to 10 cm for everyone for a small or medium-sized gaming table.
Roll one D6 for each shot or each strike in melee,
Average soldier = “class 3”
Elite soldier = “class 4”
Player character = “class 5” and can survive one wound.
Chain mail or breastplate = “armour 4”.
Ignore everything else, and it will not be very RPG nor will it allow big strategy… but it works.
Add more ingredients later if wished.
And “the game organiser is always right” whatever the rules say …because it is written in the rules.http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/en.html
https://www.anargader.net/The Sengoku Japan reference sheet now is online, on the same page: http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/en.html
I have joined some explanations, suggestions and ideas we had in our games. And, as usual with these rules, the GMs or game organisers can adapt them as they wish for their own games.
Rules improvements about this period and context (which I personally didn’t know much…) would not have been possible without the wonderful scenarios and scratch-building works of Nicolas “Euthanasor” http://euthanasor-wargamesetmodelisme.blogspot.com/search/label/Samurai
BTW I also corrected a few typos (nothing important) in the generic rules.
http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/en.html
https://www.anargader.net/Ask questions if needed.
Oh and did you notice these two short videos made by another player in our games (and I was not the GM),
Sengoku Japan three years ago:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MzjAqkUyhsqfD2h1IrDZYO0vWvdyjT9Q/view
and Old West last year:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/105arZyRfygW2QJHm9WnTSA5-jTmKmyEg/view
Nothing extraordinary but he was able to show the overall feeling of the games in these short videos.
And, funny enough, during these games nobody noticed this player was filming, we thought he was just taking a few pictures. 😉
http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/en.html
https://www.anargader.net/Thanks guys.
In fact most of the work is trying to put together lots of ideas and bits of texts accumulated since the first edition of the rules in 1996 (…and not so long ago I was still researching for very old .cwk AppleWorks files in the depths of one of my old computers…)
and all the new ideas, additions, and resolution of unexpected problems, written (or, most often, not completely written) since a dozen years when the rules began to take a new dimension. And all those which appear now and again. 
Writing rules is a curse. Completing them is worse.
http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/en.html
https://www.anargader.net/I was especially enamoured by the use of animals as dummy markers for hidden troop movement.
Thanks Phil,
Not sure if the idea is very original, we have been using it since a few years but I can’t remember who invented it or where it comes from.
And sometimes it brings unexpected and funny results… In a game some years ago the only animal figures we had brought were …sheep. So in the first moves of the game, what could be seen was …sheep (instead of Viking invaders) advancing forward individually in a broad line, something real sheep never do!
There was no watch post on the opposite side (in the scenario the defenders were not expecting an attack) but only a small group of children fishing at a river ford. When the children saw one of the sheep (and it was confirmed that this dummy represented enemy warriors) the children began to run towards the village. But the dummy was not yet replaced, as the village chief (player) could not know exactly what was there before the children reached the village to tell him. So the children were running across the wood and fields, apparently pursued by a sheep. Later, when we shared the pictures, a player remarked that these children would probably not become great warriors in the future if they were running away from a sheep…
http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/en.html
https://www.anargader.net/Hi,
The Sengoku Japan reference sheet and extension for Argad (a mix of RPG and skirmish rules) has been updated (a translation from the most recent update in French).
It now includes an optional table for arquebuses firing in salvoes, and more explanations, suggestions, and ideas (10 pages).
http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/pdfs/sheet-en-japan-sengoku.pdf
http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/en.html
https://www.anargader.net/Thanks Mike.
With the pandemic there were less game festivals and less games …so more time to exhume and to update many drafts of the rules which had not been finished since years…
http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/en.html
https://www.anargader.net/Hi,
Two new complements for Argad ruleset have been translated into English:
– “Archery Tables” (4 pages) a compilation of charts and rules for different sorts of bows and crossbows. These charts are otherwise scattered in different documents, having them together will help game organisers and GMs to have a better overview of the rules system.
http://argad-bzh.fr/argad/pdfs/archery-tables-en.pdf
– “Ogres & Ogresses” (4 pages) suggestions and reference sheets for these creatures. Since the first edition of Argad in 1996 all humanoids used only D6s in the fantasy games (as humans in the historical games) with too many modifiers, it was not very practical. Improvements using D4, D8, D10 etc. instead are being rewritten and tested, this is the first document about it. The rules are not linked to any peculiar fantasy world, these suggestions are for inspiration more than compulsory.
http://argad-bzh.fr/argad/pdfs/ogres-en.pdf
http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/en.html
https://www.anargader.net/
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