Commands & Colors: Samurai Battles Board Game
Samurai Battles, from the game company Zvezda, premiered almost seven years ago. And although the game achieved some popularity for the most part the game flew under the radar of most gamers. Perhaps the blame was with the time required to assemble the 100 plus plastic Samurai figures before one could even play the game. And once assembled these plastic models, although truly fine figures, were very fragile, almost too fragile for game pieces. Finally when it was time to pack up after a game, it was extremely difficult to store them away safely.
Yet, the Samurai Battles game still gained a small following of very loyal fans. I tend to believe, many fans who were already familiar with one or more of other games that use the Commands & Colors system; Battle Cry, Memoir ’44, Commands & Colors Ancients, or Commands & Colors Napoleonics, actually brought them to the game. But after a couple of years of dwindling sales and the untimely death of Zvezda CEO Konstantin Krivenko, who was very supportive of the project, the game was phased out.
The Commands & Colors: Samurai Battles game rules allow players to portray important engagements of Japanese history. The battles, included in the scenario booklet, focus on the historical deployment of forces and important terrain features in scale with the game system. The scale of the game is flexible and varies from battle to battle. For some scenarios, an infantry unit may represent an entire clan of soldiers, while in other scenarios a unit may represent just a few brave warriors.
Components:
- 1 C&C Samurai Rulebook
- 1 Samurai Scenario Booklet (around 40 battle scenarios)
- 1 Battlefield Game Board
- 60 Terrain Tiles double-sided
- 30 Honor & Fortune Tokens double-sided
- 18 Victory Banner Counters double-sided
- 12 Clan Markers double-sided
- 60 Command Cards
- 40 Dragon Cards
- 12 Battle Dice
- 2 Unit Summary Sheets
- 2 Terrain Summary Sheets
- 254 Small Infantry Blocks
- 72 Medium Cavalry Blocks
- 14 Rectangular Leader Blocks
- Block and Dice Label Sheets
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