Words by James Winspear
Power, honour, betrayal, death and destruction: these are what are associated with the Sengoku Jidai, the Age of the Warring States. For a century medieval Japan was plunged into conflict as warlords vied continuously with one another in a series of bloody struggles. At stake was nothing less than the title of Shogun, supreme military ruler of Japan, and with it the fate of the nation itself. A time of suffering where the only law was that of might makes right, today its memory lives on in the popular imagination as the era of the samurai, the ninja and the warrior monk. This month sees those legends return to the tabletop with the second edition of Test of Honour, steeping players in a world of blades, bows and bushido.