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I'm working on rebasing my Muromachi Samurai for EoD, and came to the line about Retainers behind shields. These look like useful troops, but I'll be hornswoggled if I have any idea what the standing shields ought to look like. Does anyone have any idea here? Rectangular? Round? What?

Think wooden pavises proped up on a stick.

http://www.sierratoysoldier.com/ourstor ... oduct=2228

zoltan wrote:Think wooden pavises proped up on a stick.

http://www.sierratoysoldier.com/ourstor ... oduct=2228

Good site, however the one's I've seen in historical documents are about half that size. The ones shown there are more seige sized pavises.

Dlauerman wrote:I'm working on rebasing my Muromachi Samurai for EoD, and came to the line about Retainers behind shields. These look like useful troops, but I'll be hornswoggled if I have any idea what the standing shields ought to look like. Does anyone have any idea here? Rectangular? Round? What?

Hornswoggled hey? Does that hurt? Where can I buy some?

Unsure where you are but Samurai Pavises are available here :-

http://www.dixonminiatures.co.uk/dixonc ... aintype=33

Piccie of them from website :-

Interesting. How are they represented in FoG. Portable defenses?

They are under "Detached followers fighting behind standing shields"

Mine are mounted on supplementary bases which are placed in front said units.

Couple of Japanese illustrations:

Thanks for the responses- I think those are doable.

Nik

Where did you find those? Very interesting as I was thinking about these today (for another reason).

nikgaukroger wrote:Couple of Japanese illustrations:

http://www.endoftime.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Jap1.jpg
http://www.endoftime.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Jap2.jpg

Quote the image to find the source Tim, unfortunately the source is one of Nik's pages. But he has other info @blue yonder

timmy1 wrote:Nik

Where did you find those? Very interesting as I was thinking about these today (for another reason).

Scanned them out of Karl Friday's Samurai book.