{"id":4003,"date":"2018-02-05T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2018-02-19T17:38:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T00:38:14","slug":"a-new-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=4003","title":{"rendered":"A New Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally bit the bullet and picked up Test of Honour from Warlord Games.\u00a0 Well, not all of Test of Honour, just this interesting side set based on ninjas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/warlord-dojo-assault.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4001\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/warlord-dojo-assault-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/warlord-dojo-assault.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/warlord-dojo-assault-198x198.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/warlord-dojo-assault-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/warlord-dojo-assault-88x88.jpg 88w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is the &#8220;Dojo Assault&#8221; set that is a bit weird in that it seemed like it was a small starter kit for the game but it really is just a combination package of several of their separate kits.\u00a0 It includes the Dojo MDF scenery kit and the Ninjas of Iga set, both of which can be purchased individually, and finally, a single Samurai figure that isn&#8217;t available elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>I was confused by the product because the description made it sound like getting this kit was all I needed but after confirming with the publisher, it is really just a large expansion.\u00a0 You will still need the cards and dice and whatever from the core set.\u00a0 Since my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=3314\">has that material<\/a>, luckily we&#8217;ll be ok.\u00a0 The last thing was that the contact from the publisher confirmed that there was a scenario that featured all the elements in the kit and did not need anything else.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Test-of-Honour-Dojo-Assault.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4000\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Test-of-Honour-Dojo-Assault-600x619.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Test-of-Honour-Dojo-Assault-600x619.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Test-of-Honour-Dojo-Assault-198x204.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Test-of-Honour-Dojo-Assault-388x400.jpg 388w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Test-of-Honour-Dojo-Assault-768x792.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Test-of-Honour-Dojo-Assault-900x929.jpg 900w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Test-of-Honour-Dojo-Assault.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, that is not the case. It really only includes the Ninja box, the extra Samurai, and the Dojo.\u00a0 A real missed opportunity here to create a little mini-scenario to go with the kit but I guess that task will fall to me.\u00a0 Shouldn&#8217;t be too hard as I really don&#8217;t want to create a big collection of these figures and try to have yet another large scale minis game on my hands.\u00a0 I really only want to make a fun one-off set up to pull out now and again. Of course mine will eventually look a little different.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/warlord-dojo-assault-BW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4002\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/warlord-dojo-assault-BW-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/warlord-dojo-assault-BW-600x600.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/warlord-dojo-assault-BW-198x198.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/warlord-dojo-assault-BW-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/warlord-dojo-assault-BW-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/warlord-dojo-assault-BW-88x88.jpg 88w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/warlord-dojo-assault-BW.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After some thought (really none at all), I&#8217;ve decided to continue exploring the depths of monochromatic painting with this game as well.\u00a0 I think this mainly comes from my love of Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s fantastic Samurai films.\u00a0 This game seems to capture quickly and easily the old film stories I&#8217;ve watched countless times.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3999\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kurosawa-seven-samurai-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3999\" class=\"wp-image-3999 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kurosawa-seven-samurai-01-600x454.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kurosawa-seven-samurai-01-600x454.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kurosawa-seven-samurai-01-198x150.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kurosawa-seven-samurai-01-400x303.jpg 400w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kurosawa-seven-samurai-01-768x581.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kurosawa-seven-samurai-01-900x681.jpg 900w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kurosawa-seven-samurai-01.jpg 952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">master swordsman samurai Kyuzo in Seven Samurai<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I know that his later films like <em>Ran<\/em> went into full and glorious color but its his classic films like <em>Seven Samurai<\/em>, <em>Sanjuro<\/em>, <em>Yojimbo<\/em>, and <em>Hidden Fortress<\/em> that really exemplify his masterful film technique. I can&#8217;t wait to get started as it means I&#8217;ll likely paint with these films on in the background. Funny enough, I likely won&#8217;t even need the subtitles (even though I can&#8217;t understand Japanese).<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I randomly found some oversized foam dice at Walmart for cheap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/big-ass-d6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3998\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/big-ass-d6-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/big-ass-d6-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/big-ass-d6-198x149.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/big-ass-d6-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/big-ass-d6-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/big-ass-d6-900x675.jpg 900w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/big-ass-d6.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Dropzone friends all have these nice, large acrylic d6 to use as the round counters.\u00a0 It&#8217;ll be nice to troll them with my overcompensating addition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally bit the bullet and picked up Test of Honour from Warlord Games.\u00a0 Well, not all of Test of Honour, just this interesting side set based on ninjas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[569,535,570],"class_list":["post-4003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-of-honour","tag-big-dice","tag-test-of-honour","tag-warlord-games-kurosawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4003"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4172,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions\/4172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}