Yochimoto’s wedding – link to Argad Sengoku AAR

[Patrice]

On 22-23 October at Japan Vannes Matsuri festival in Vannes (Brittany, France) we played two miniature RPG/ skirmish games, sequels to previous adventures in a same campaign.

On Saturday there was no battle it was diplomacy and negociations in town inside a same clan, and a treason, a mysterious assassination etc.

AAR …in French, but with many pictures, here:

https://euthanasor-wargamesetmodelisme.blogspot.com/2022/10/le-mariage-de-yoshimoto-8eme-episode-de.html?m=1

…And on Sunday there was a large skirmish with an opposite clan, the AAR is not online yet.

http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/en.html
https://www.anargader.net/

[Mike]

I don’t know what the blog says, but I know it looks fancy.

[Darkest Star Games]

Another really cool AAR.  So much deceit and politics!  It is really cool that the players seemed to be really into it, play their characters to the max, and pretty crazy that one has now been eliminated from the campaign via trickery.  This all reads like realistic events!

One question: it seemed like the poisoning death of Yasuko was not a big deal.  I would have thought that with Takao dying the lands she and her unborn son would control would be big prizes to fight over.  Does her death allow Yashimotto to take control of those lands or to distribute them to other followers?  Or are they still part of Yasuko’s clan?

"I saw this in a cartoon once, but I'm pretty sure I can do it..."

[Patrice]

Thanks, sorry for not having answered sooner, I attended other events recently and also my internet connection at home in the deep Breton countryside is very bad or often totally missing. Yes they say “Fiber is coming” 😉 and yes there are works some kms away on the roadside but for the moment it mostly means less connection.

Darkest Star Games wrote:

One question: it seemed like the poisoning death of Yasuko was not a big deal. I would have thought that with Takao dying the lands she and her unborn son would control would be big prizes to fight over. Does her death allow Yashimotto to take control of those lands or to distribute them to other followers? Or are they still part of Yasuko’s clan?

It was big deal, and was also met by a feeling of insecurity in town. And some remembered that Yasuko had been seen from time to time since the very first game of this campaign (at first a very secondary NPC).
All the lands of her late clan had already been taken in battles by Yoshimoto. Her wedding with Takao could be felt by some as a danger: her unborn son could have raised her old clan supporters.
I don’t know more, I’m a player in this campaign (with different characters sometimes, for the moment I’m Hiraku). After her murder I talked with my lord Yoshimoto to try to understand this and after some thought we had the idea that perhaps the only people who had an interest in this crime was the family of his, my lord’s, very new wife.
…and when we told this to the GM …he looked surprised for a few seconds before he could hide his feelings. 😉
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Now we have the AAR of the battle played on the second day.
(in French with many pictures):

https://euthanasor-wargamesetmodelisme.blogspot.com/2022/11/takeda-takeda-voila-la-maldonne-air.html?m=1

 

http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/en.html
https://www.anargader.net/

[Darkest Star Games]

That was a really imaginative battle!  I really enjoyed how it could have been much different if the messenger had made it the right person rather than the loyal troops.  That whole flank could have been compromised for the Hojo and really turned the battle!  It is those sort of narrative occurrences that give your campaign such a rich story that I really like.

"I saw this in a cartoon once, but I'm pretty sure I can do it..."

[Patrice]

Darkest Star Games wrote:

That was a really imaginative battle! I really enjoyed how it could have been much different

Ye-es… Thanks to have mentioned it! I must say that during the battle I was only looking at my own troop, and I realise now that I did not take time to understand fully the whole AAR I gave a link to!

http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/en.html
https://www.anargader.net/

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