RAN simulates the highly personal form of warfare developed by the Japanese samurai, wherein formal battles played out almost as backdrops to individual feats of courage, bravery and devotion much of it outstanding, some of it rather foolhardy, all of it very Homeric. Although political and tactical victory was the bottom line, collecting the severed heads of enemy samurai reigned a very close second in importance. In terms of tactics, this was, as in Europe, the Dawn of Modern Warfare, with the introduction of guns - arquebuses - by the Portuguese. Even with the revelatory effect of musketry, Japanese battles were still pretty much a swirling, non-linear affair.

This site © 2003-2007 RIW Hobbies, Inc. This site contains Intellectual property, artwork, and photography of whose copyright is held by their respective manufacturer(s) and/or their licensees. No rights are given or implied, and no claims are made to the copyright or ownership of said property.