Bushido wave 18 review: part 3 Emperor's watchmen

for this review i'll focus on a single model, the Golden Sentinel. since this is a multi faction model i'll look at his stats in general and what he gets per faction and the uses per faction.

first the looks, i love the armour reminiscent of a chinese Qing imperial guard. it has good detail in the armour and clothing and looking at the shoes he's someone that needs to travel often.

he's a reasonable fighter with MS 3 and martial prowess, he's also durable with an armour (3) and bravery ensuring he'll stand his ground. he's a 8 rice for all factions.

so far nothing special except for his trait bodyguard (2/teishin) and he'll also gain aware and first strike within 3 inch of a teishin. to get the full use out of his 8 points you would need to field Yukio as he's the only Teushin around now.

 then we have his ki feat battle hardened. this feat costs 3 ki and gives the Sentinel last stand and rise (4) till the end of the turn, this feat can only be used once per game.


now the faction specific things and tactica, first up prefecture. with prefecture you get a free pass token each turn. while not that impressive an bonus prefecture players could use this model to field an inexpensive samurai to bring up numbers.

for Ito the Sentinel gains poison (1/1). in my opinion the best one of the three as poison can help a lot in the long run in a game. especially with a Ito warband filled with Blood of Orochi models you can quickly rack up those poison markers and again a cheap samurai model.

for Silvermoon his additional ability is the coin flip for extra ki. i find this a bit dissapointing as the other faction get something that always helps, Silvermoon get a 50/50 chance for extra ki. considering this guy can only have 6 ki stacked, i imagine you would only use this ability when your in a bind and need to use his ki feat to get rise (4). for Silvermoon he's not that impressive a model as most models in Silvermoon already have 3 MS the only bonus he brings is armour.

overall a decent model but to maximize him i would advise fielding him beside Yukio to get the addition traits.