RAN by GMT Games (Samurai battles in feudal Japan)

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RAN by GMT Games (Samurai battles in feudal Japan)- SAMURAI WARFARE IN THE SENGOKU JIDAI - 16-17th Century Japan. RAN is the 12th volume in the Great Battles of History Series, and the second game on the battles of the Samurai (following GMTs Samurai (Vol. V)). RAN covers several of the less famous battles of the Sengoku Jidai, in which powerful Daimyo - Japanese feudal lords - strove to both maintain and extend their power bases while seeking to attain the office of Shogun, the power behind the throne of the Emperor. RAN simulates the highly personal form of warfare developed by the Japanese samurai, wherein formal battles played out almost as backdrops to individual feats of courage, bravery, and devotion--much of it outstanding, some of it rather foolhardy, all of it very Homeric. Although political and tactical victory was the bottom line, collecting the severed heads of enemy samurai reigned a very close second in importance. In terms of tactics, this was, as in Europe, the Dawn of Modern Warfare, with the introduction of guns - arquebuses - by the Portuguese. Even with the revelatory effect of musketry, Japanese battles were still pretty much a swirling, non-linear affair. RAN , the name the famous Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa chose for his samurai version of King Lear, roughly means Chaos .The Battles of RAN : MIMASETOGE read more

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