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Battle Blocks: Sengoku

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Battle Blocks: Sengoku is a fast playing tabletop game that enables players to fight dramatic ‘battle-map’ style clashes between armies of Samurai and other warriors of the Sengoku Period of Japanese history. Leading armies of colourfully painted wooden blocks (or miniatures, its your choice!) Players will fight for honour and glory on the battlefield.

All of this comes from having a super-fast playing system that prioritises ease of play. The game uses fast and simple mechanics that provide results within an hour, and on a playing surface no larger than 2’x2’.

This ruleset is intended to provide a way for people to try out a new hobby or genre of wargaming. Feel free to try out different methods of creating Units, making your own labels, using miniatures, or even converting the rules to fit a different historical period.

The game will be updated with errata and rules clarifications over time. 

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Johan B November 29, 2022 1:52 pm UTC
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Absolutly love the rules. Any thoughts of expanding into ancient and medieval era? Ofcourse the simplicity of mixed formations would not work then but yeah. fantastic rules!
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Robert L November 29, 2022 9:32 pm UTC
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Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate it! <br />
As a matter of fact I'm currently working on a Wars of the Roses version and even have a Napoleonics version in the pipeline, the mechanics are quite different in order to portray the period more accurately but simplicity is still the goal.
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Johan B December 01, 2022 2:50 pm UTC
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Amazing! That will be an insta buy! :)
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July 10, 2022 6:57 pm UTC
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Really enjoying this one but can I ask a quick question about retreating troops?

In the rules it states a retreating unit moves 1" from the unit that caused the retreat, displacing friends (or destroyed by impassable teerain or enemies) but what happens next?

The Refresh option simply says the disorder token is removed, does it also stop the retreat and the unit turned to face the enemy? If the player opts not to refresh (suicidal though it is by giving your enemy a potential rear attack on a disordered unit) does the retreating unit continiue to retreat , if so how far, or does it simply stop. We house ruled if a retreating unit was not refereshed (disorder removed and turned around but cannot move or shoot that turn and only melees in defence) it continues to retreat an additional three inches in the same direction.
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Robert L July 11, 2022 10:41 am UTC
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I'm glad you are enjoying the rules!

Retreating units are only 'retreating' in the instance when they turn and move away from the enemy - it is not a state that they remain in.

So, when a unit takes two hits in combat and retreats, they turn, move away, and then stop. They are no longer considered to be retreating.

The options you have as a player are to either give the unit a movement order to place it in a safer position, and possibly refresh next turn, or take the risk and immediately refresh it. Remember the rule about the minimum distance a unit can be from enemy units in order to refresh though.

I hope that clarifies things for you.
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July 11, 2022 6:36 pm UTC
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Thanks Robert, that makes a lot more sense now and I can see it making combat more decisive in our games, especially facing elite unit
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July 02, 2022 8:12 pm UTC
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Clever simple wargame that can be played in less than an hour, using simple components. All you need is to get some wooden blocks - or repurpose that old jenga set, print the tokens and labels, do a little craft work and you are ready to go. It works as a great introductory wargame
I printed out enough for two setsso I could mess around with more variable army types.4Note the PDF seems to have the rules booklet as printed A% which was scrapped on my first attempt (the duplex print was hopelessly misaligned. Therefore suggest that if you are going to print it out, use the booklet option hich produces a really nice product.
Given the price you cannot go wrong and i am looking forwardto this being expanded upon
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Robert L July 04, 2022 3:40 pm UTC
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I am glad you are enjoying the game and having fun trying out different army compositions!
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Eric S June 24, 2022 3:09 pm UTC
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Where is the download?
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Tamas C June 24, 2022 7:54 pm UTC
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Can't find it either.
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Robert L June 25, 2022 9:17 pm UTC
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I'm very sorry about that, it seems I made a mistake when I last updated the file!

It's uploaded now and you should have access to it.
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Eric S June 27, 2022 12:16 am UTC
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Thanks. I have just read through the rules. Nice system! The labels you made are nice but I also like the earlier ones.
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Pete M June 22, 2022 9:53 am UTC
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Please can you clarify how units can turn when they move? (I was thinking that perhaps they rotate about their centre and can turn up to 180 degrees once during their move.)
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Robert L June 22, 2022 7:22 pm UTC
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Hi Pete, yes Units can turn to face any direction at the start or end of their movement, the only restriction is that they must face the direction they are travelling in during the move.

I shall clarify this in the next update, thanks for bringing it to my attention.
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