The model looks keeps the great look from the concept art. In addition I love the idea of a tiny man (he's literally half the height of Tautolu) ordering around a bunch of buto.
Now statwise he's dangerously weak. 1 MS, movement of 3, only 4 wounds and no mellee. Now the strenght of this model is in his traits. He's fearless (who wouldn't be if you hang around giants), order (2/Buto/6) (amazing!), small (no surprise) and toughness (1) (a little surprising).
With these traits the important ones are order and Small. The small makes him easier to hide behind the buto's and order means more actions for your buto's. Tacticly speaking the order is very important since you will almost always be outnumbered unless fighting a full oni list.
Now his Ki feats are amazing, well okay one is. First up is "Rally" for 3 Ki remove frightened from all friendly models within 8 inch, this is a Ki feat you'll hardly use as the buto cause fear and Manu is fearless. It's nice to have but dn't expect to use it often.
Second is "Jumo Sensei" now this is why you'll be playing a buto list. for 2 Ki you can target a model within 6 inch and give him a instruction token. now the options from these tokens are very varied, you can get a lot of special attacks or defenses or immovable. But these aren't the most important, what is important is that the token can be used to decrease the cost of a special attack or defense by (1). Just imagine Manu throwing people around for free or Fituama doing combo attack for free.
Tautolu:
I'm not a fan of the model it looks deviates from the general buto look as shown in the concept art.
He's got great traits armour, brutal and toughness (1). Fear (3), large, steadfast and steady. This combined with his powerful attack and his regular +2 on damage means the potential to kill models in one go is very high.
His single Ki feat gives him bodyguard/friendly not amazing but could be used to save a model low on wounds. Not much else to say about him but big and strong a good model for the 10 rice.
Oda & Tautolu:
The combined model keeps the best stats from both models e.g the MS, movement and wounds from Tautolu and the Ki statistic from Tautolu and keeps all the traits from both models except for the small from Oda.It's interesting to see the size isn't increased to huge meaning you're still able to hide him behind terrain 2 inch or larger, despite the model being 3 inch high.
It's nice to be able to combine the models into one big monster, it's up to your own opinion but i'd rather keep them seperate for a total 15 rice for the extra activations.
With the options Silvermoon gets from these models expect to see a lot of buto warbands in the future Oda and all the buto's is only 33 points giving you 4 models, 3 of which have 10 wounds and with Oda you can let two of your buto activate an extra time in a turn. Problem with this list is that modifiers stack up really fast outnumbered and exhausted being the most prevalent ones, when you lose one buto things will go downhill fast.
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