Sarissa Precision Take Refuge In A Mountain Village
April 15, 2019 by brennon
Sarissa Precision have built some wonderful new terrain pieces which seem like they would be perfect for those fighting through scenic mountain passes in Feudal Japan.
The first of these sets was so incredibly awesome that I was drawn in immediately. Here we have the Mountain Village Hovel & Animal Shelter set which comes with two little houses for your villagers to live in as well as the animal shelters which keep their ducks, chickens and the like.
You don't get the scenic basing for any of these kits, just as a heads up, and the thatching material has also been added, but other than that these buildings give you the start of a small hamlet in the relative calm of the mountains.
Sensei Macdonald
Following on from this, we have the Mountain Village Farmhouse, a larger structure which might serve as a good place to hold out when bandits come raiding.
As mentioned above, these pieces would be great for those looking to set the scene in games like Kensei, Torii and of course Test of Honour, which is coming back to the tabletop with its reworked edition soon.
You've got a good range of buildings here, all at different sizes, perfect for those creating tight and dangerous skirmish tabletops.
Industrial Elders
As well as the larger Farmhouse, you can also get yourself the Mountain Village Workshop...
...and the Elder's House too. Both of these would work as good focal points for a scrap on the tabletop. Maybe your enemy is trying to raid and destroy your workshop or make their way to the Elder's House in order to make him submit to a new lord who has taken up residence in the area.
However you want to approach the storytelling with these pieces of terrain, they provide you with an alternative backdrop to your Feudal Japanese games. Instead of being surrounded by bright and colourful buildings near a city, you've instead got a flavour of the rural world where things are still beautiful but more practical!
This setting seems the perfect place for a lone ronin to wander through only to find himself embroiled in a larger conflict as he pledges to protect the elder and those within the village.
"...these would work as good focal points for a scrap on the tabletop"
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Very nice, i have so much samurai to paint, test of honor to make, 4ground buildings waiting…..just not fair that there is not enough time.
More great stuff from an ever expanding range. This could easily fit into a fantasy setting as well.
The table Sarissa brought to show this off at Salute was amazing. You can find pictures on either March Attack’s or Sarissa’s social media. I wish I could have seen it up close and personal. I believe Sarissa are also going to release the tiles these buildings are built on as well as a modular system. Sarissa easily do the best unpainted MDF/HDF buildings in the business.
really cute terrain sets. Saw them advertised for Salute, really cool.
This stuff looks great. How well does it transfer to a Chinese mountain village?
I am doing a 28mm Taiping Rebellion project for Black Powder (Brack Powdah?).
I cannot find examples of Chinese Peasant buildings.
I am curious to see how well these translate to 19th Century China (probably very poorly).
All the love and interest goes to the uptight Japanese. The Chinese almost always wore shoes AND gave the Japanese all their silk (Sirk?).
Don’t forget GCT’s Bushido!
This is fantastic! I’d love to have a complete village of these buildings.
I can imagine the fighting moving through the whole village and then out come the elders to finish off the bandits!