The Bushido world is full of little spirits, or kami, that occasionally get involved in the various battles. The Temple of Ro-Kan is probably the most known for bringing them along when a fight is brewing, but The Silvermoon Trade Syndicate has spirits of their own. Since the syndicate runs a lot of houses of chance, the embodiments of luck, the Rikku, have taken a special interest in them.
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GCT Studios will be headed to the UK Games Expo next week and they’re bringing their Bushido Grand Masters Tournament with them. Is your kung-fu the best to be able to come out on top? If it is, you could just have access to the GCT design team and help create your own mini for the game. Pretty sweet prize.
Along with that, they’re showing off a new Wave 23 preview mini in the form of the Nightwing Swarm.
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GCT Studios keeps rolling along with their new Bushido previews. This time around, we get a look at a new type of Shisa for the Temple of Ro-Kan. The original Shisa have been around since pretty much the beginning of the game and offered a fairly unique piece as part of the Temple’s armory. Well, a new dog has entered the fight.
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GCT Studios has started showing off preview art for their next wave of Bushido models. This time, the cult of Yurei gets into the Kami business with the Kamis of Choking Fog and Blighted Earth. Watch out, Temple, you’re not the only ones that can have the various natural spirits on your side.
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GCT Studios has posted up a preview shot of what the plastic models for their Rise of the Kage board game will look like. The team has really been working closely with the manufacturer in order to make sure the minis are as detailed as any of the metal ones for Bushido would normally be. And remember, with the stat card deck, you can use all your Kage models in Bushido as well.
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GCT Studios is now taking orders for their 22nd wave of Bushido minis. With these last two previews, they’ve shown off everything and you can now put your name on the list to get these figures when they’re available. Be the first gamer on your block with them! The orders are happening now and shipping will begin on the 6th of April.
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GCT Studios is showing off a new mini for Bushido. This time it’s Yuui for the Ito Clan. If you want to add to your ranks of half-snake minis, they certainly have your number with this one.
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GCT Studios has two new previews up for the next wave of Bushido releases. The first is Kyuubi for Temple of Ro-Kan. And then, to offset the cuteness of a fox-man, they have Yama Uba for Cult of Yurei.
They’re part of Wave 22 that should be hitting stores soon.
As part of the update, there’s also a painting tutorial for Souta and Sloth.
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GCT Studios posted up a pair of new Bushido preview art pieces, including the first for the Tengu Descension (there’s also a Silvermoon Trade Syndicate piece). Along with those, they’ve posted the most recent Errata update for the game. Be sure you’re playing correctly!
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GCT Studios not only has a new concept art preview for a new Temple model, but they’ve got silhouettes of the first minis of a whole new faction to show off! The new faction’s the Tengu Descension. GCT’s having a poll for which silhouette gets their full art previewed first.
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GCT Studios has started taking orders for the next wave of Bushido releases. Grab yourself one of the new Wave 21 models and be the first gamer on your block with these figures when they’re released. Along with that, they’re showing off some artwork for the next wave of releases with a preview of Yama Uba.
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We’ve got another set of shorter news stories for you this afternoon.
These stories include: Sally 4th launches range of Fantasy Football Terrain & Accessories, The Siege of Monstral from Irrational Number Line Games released, New 10mm Sci-Fi Buildings from Brigade Models, new Drop Sled and Cargo terrain from Finger & Toe, Mayhem in Paper releases Foot Knights of Camelot sets, Archiminima Structura Castle Terrain on Kickstarter, Some new Terrain releases from Escenografia Epsilon, Corvus Corax Miniatures previews new green, the launch of the Fightin’ Fungi Kickstarter, and an announcement about the Bushido Grand Masters.
GCT Studios has a bit going on in this update. They’ve got a new Special Card Competition like they’ve been running. There’s an update about Rise of the Kage’s production. And they’ve got a look at the new Rashka for Bushido’s Savage Wave faction. Take a look.
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Hey everyone. Here’s another batch of news snippets for you.
Remember, snippets aren’t “leftovers” or “scraps” or anything like that. They’re news like everything else. They’re just… smaller. There’s good stuff in here and we want you to know about it. It’s just that the story’s shorter, but no less important!
So what do we have in this round? Well, there’s a new punk green from Slow Death Games, an announcement from ThunderChild Miniatures about a new Kickstarter, a new release from Hitech Miniatures, a new adventure for Fantasy8s, new Pulp Alley templates from Sally 4th, a notice about the final days of the Rise of the Kage pre-order, some new goblin nurses from Kromlech, a Squadron Strike: Traveller Preview, an announcement about the Death Saves Anthology release, and some new accessories for Robotech from Burn In Designs.
GCT Studios shows off another Wave 21 preview for Bushido as well as gives some info about pre-orders for Rise of the Kage.
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Not all those children raised in the monasteries and taught the teachings of Subarashi Baransu are able to complete their training, return to their homes and continue the cycle that has been in place since the beginning of memory. Dakufaia was a promising student, however the gnawing rage that burns inside him stoked by an unknown trauma could not be dowsed by the secrets of the temple. Despite many attempts to help and guide the boy, the masters could not risk letting him continue his training such was the ferocity of his temper. So when the teenager was cast out he had no choice but to travel to the city to try and survive and survive he did. A natural fighter who has since used his teaching in the martial arts to earn his living. In the Silvermoon he has found his family and acceptance that had eluded him for so long. The Oyabun encouraging his fiery talent, unleashing Dakufaia like a fireball on those who have slighted them.
GCT Studios lets us see some minis and artwork in this new preview for the 21st wave of Bushido releases.
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As Bushido’s December release of Wave 21 moves closer we are happy to show off some more artwork and a brand new model for that release. This week’s offering brings you a deadly viper and a the wise counsel of the Takashi clan.
GCT Studios posted up some new preview minis and artwork for their upcoming Rise of the Kage board game.
GCT Studios keeps on rolling with their Bushido Special Card competition as well as a preview of the next Temple miniature.
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We are delighted to put the last two faction’s special card finalists up for the vote. These are fan made and one lucky winner will win silver moons and the chance to see their design manufactured. We have also previewed the upcoming release for the Temple of Ro-Kan.
GCT Studios posted up their first concept piece for Wave 21 for Bushido.
In the theme of the season, it’s a mighty creepy-lookin’ bit of art.
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Check out the latest addition that is going to swell the ranks of the Cult of Yurei.
GCT Studios posted a pair of previews for Bushido. They’ve also got a competition going for their special card packs to check out.
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Wave 20 has been successfully delivered and we round out the promos with these two for the Ito and Savage Wave. We are also having a vote on our special card competition and one voter will win a copy of the card pack on its release.
GCT Studios is in their final days over on Kickstarter for their Rise of the Kage board game. They’ve come quite a ways from the initial goal, bringing the game to now include 123 models (at time of posting here).
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Over on Kickstarter we’ve been smashing through stretch goals and there really is quite a lot on offer now including 123 high quality miniatures, a cracking Bushido cross over essentially offering two games for one. If you haven’t checked it out yet come and have a look.
GCT Studios has started taking orders for their latest wave of Bushido minis over in their webshop.
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That’s right over in the store the Wave 20 models are available for Pre-Order, these have a street date of October 10th. Who are you most looking forward to getting your hands on?
GCT Studios has just under a week left for their Rise of the Kage Kickstarter campaign. They’ve made their goal and gone through several stretch goals as well. How many more can they get through? Well, that’s up to you.
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The campaign has been ticking along nicely and we have unlocked a ton of stretch goals along the way. Come and join us for the final push.
GCT Studio made it through another stretch goal in their Rise of the Kage game, adding a new game board to the mix. They’ve also added in ninja special cards as an add-on and posted up a new stretch goal. Still a little more than a week left to get in on the action.
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Wow, firstly thank you for all the support for the campaign. Yet again the gamers of the world have enabled us to bring yet another faction to the battlefields of Jwar isles. So last time I spoke about the faction in general terms but this time I’d like to talk about some of the challenges I faced and how I feel we have overcome those challenges to create an interesting and unique feel to the Shadow Wind Clan.
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GCT Studios posted up a new Wave 20 preview for Bushido. This time it’s Silvermoon Trade Syndicate.
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The oyabun of the Silvermoon do not consider age a restriction to the entrance to their service. Many fill their numbers with youngsters eager to establish themselves within the Shatei ranks and prove themselves worthy of their oyabun’s favour. All within the Silvermoon play to their own strengths, and in doing so strengthen their gumi. Sukoshi Kani and Nomi are no different in this respect. Sukoshi, armed with her bag of makibishi, ready to scatter them wide at a moment’s notice to cover a retreat or block a path. Nomi serves as the keen eyes and ears, ready to alert his brethren to approaching or unseen dangers. Their small statures another hindrance turned help, enabling them to sneak into an enemy’s flanks and wreak havoc.
GCT Studio shows off some Wave 20 models with a double-preview.
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With the release of Wave 20 scheduled for October we are happy to reveal two of the models that will form part of the Wave.
We also have a few reasons you should play from Geek and Sundry’s Teri Litorco as well as a game run through.
GCT Studios gives us a triple-shot of a preview with 3 new concept pieces for Wave 20 of Bushido.
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A look at the final three concept pieces for Bushido’s Wave 20, including Cult of Yurei, Savage Wave and Silvermoon Trade Syndicate.
GCT Studios had another good show at GenCon. They’ve posted up a bit about their experiences there, as well as a new piece of Bushido artwork.
Expect a demo report of Rise of the Kage, their new board game coming to Kickstarter, from me later this week.
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A phenomenal event was seemingly had by all and we at GCT Studios had a blast. We had great chats on the booth and we’re blown away with the players enthusiasm for the game of Bushido. We want to start with a massive and special thanks to our Retainer Crazyfish who pretty much ran the show from helping us to set up to running the tournament, he even brought along a trolley (a big thanks to his father in law for that one). Without you it wouldn’t have been half as good to say the least. The event is huge and we got in a bit of time to explore as well, as a team we particularly enjoyed howling down the late night corridors on the hunt for a game of Werewolf, excellent fun!
The tournament was great and everyone that experienced the Bushido Dojo came away happy and loaded with Silvermoons, congrats to Anthony for picking up first place with his Bakemono heavy Savage Wave list.
See you next year for the best four days in gaming.
GCT Studios gives us a look at what Rocket Raccoon would be like in the world of the Jwar Isles… and if he was a weasel instead of a raccoon.
… a Kung-Fu Weasel!
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The first piece of concept art for Bushido’s Wave 20. As well a brand new way to redeem your Silvermoons.
GCT Studios has posted up some shots previewing parts of the game board for Rise of the Kage.
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Highly detailed and beautiful work by Jack Eaves
GCT Studios is taking orders for their 19th wave of Bushido releases over in their webshop.
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We are delighted to put Wave 19 up for pre-order, these will be shipped to arrive on the 8th of August. Oh and we have revealed another ninja for Rise of the Kage.
GCT Studios has posted a new preview for the next wave of Bushido models with a look at Tenbatsu.
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Kurouma Tenbatsu is a broken and twisted man. The Kurouma line was cut over a century ago, only a small and insignificant clan during their short existence and Tenbatsu is all that remains of the clan formerly based in Eastern Jwar. The last son of the samurai clan is hardly even human although what he is, is up for debate. Some say that the colossus of a man is a twisted soul, torn between this world and Jikoku for his sins, some that the man is dead and that the cursed swords he is forever bound to carry constantly fight for control of him, others that he has sold his soul for eternal life and is simply a man too far down his dark path to ever come back. What is known is that he is welcomed and feared equally by his allies for he is inhumanely strong and savage, this damned warrior striking fear into the hearts of all those who dare to stand against his murderous rampage.
GCT Studios posted up another mini from the next wave of releases for Bushido.
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The Vampiric Yokai is yet another nightmare made flesh by the weakening of the balance. These parasitic monsters only purpose is to move from one victim to the next, draining the host of blood whilst riding the body in search of its next prey. From a distance it is hard to work out the unnatural, jerky movements of the poor soul’s body the Penanggalan uses to get close. By the time danger is confirmed the Penanggalan has either trapped its victim in its stare, or uncoiled from its host with shocking speed and wrapped its long tendril around the hapless soul, incapacitating them and allowing it to feed and then inhabit the body, wearing the corpse like a cheap kimono so easily discarded when its use is served.
In other news, we have our ‘Ask GCT Studios’ slot open for questions, a special card competition as well as the chance to win models just by subscribing to our newsletter.
GCT Studios is showing off the first mini for Bushido’s Wave 19 with a look at legendary swordsman Akio Takashi.
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Takashi Akio is a legendary sensei of the finest sword Gakko in Ryu. The majority of the Takashi line has learning under his excellent tutelage. Now in the twilight years of his life and with the need for all able body warriors to answer Hida’s call, Akio has put down his Bokken and stepped forward to offer his life in service to his lord. Still a fearsome warrior but the real advantage he offers any fighting force is his expert knowledge of combat. His ability to instruct the samurai around him with either a point to a chink in a seemingly impenetrable suit of armour to a swift reminder of the techniques he taught them on the dust training ring of the Gakko, he is another strong commander to join the Prefecture of Ryu’s ranks.
GCT Studios posted some new Bushido art pieces up on their website. Go check ’em out.
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Kurouma Tenbatsu is a broken and twisted man. The Kurouma line was cut over a century ago, only a small and insignificant clan during their short existence and Tenbatsu is all that remains of the clan formerly based in Eastern Jwar. The last son of the samurai clan is hardly even human although what he is, is up for debate. Some say that the colossus of a man is a twisted soul, torn between this world and Jikoku for his sins, some that the man is dead and that the cursed swords he is forever bound to carry constantly fight for control of him, others that he has sold his soul for eternal life and is simply a man too far down his dark path to ever come back. What is known is that he is welcomed and feared equally by his allies for he is inhumanely strong and savage, this damned warrior strikes fear into the hearts of all those who dare to stand against his murderous rampage.