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Designed By	Mark Herman Richard H. Berg
Art By	Leland Myrick Mark Simonitch Mike Lemick Rodger B. MacGowan
Published By	GMT Games
Year Published	1996
# of Players:	1 − 4
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 2 players Recommended with 1, 2 players (3 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	180 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	(no votes yet) (0 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet (1 voter) [poll]
Category	Medieval Wargame
Mechanic	Hex-and-Counter
Primary Name	Samurai
Alternate Names	Samurai: Warfare In Japan In The Sengoku Jidai, 1560-1600
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Families	Great Battles of History

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Samurai is the fifth entry in the award winning Great Battles of History. Covers 6 major battles which are Okehazama, Anegawa, Kawanakajima, Mikita-ga-Hara, Nagashino and Sekigahara.

Game features 850 colored counters, Two 22 X 34 mapsheets (back printed).

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Like New	$38.00	12-Oct-2009
New	£35.99	18-Aug-2009
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Like New	€54.00	24-Feb-2009
Like New	AU $40.00	30-Jan-2009
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New	€62.90	31-May-2007

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0	Play By Forum Vassal players?	2009-08-22	Yagami 225	1
0	Rules Pre-Shock TQ Checks	2008-12-17	grognard	1
0	General 4-th players !	2008-09-15		0
0	General Simple GBOH and Samurai !	2008-09-04		1
0	Rules Shock, and TQ checks.	2008-06-06	spaztian	0
0	Rules Position Superiority - Facing Changes After Shock Combat Engaged	2008-03-08	Kozure	1
0	Rules Taisho Contingent Units - Activation & Orders	2008-03-08	Kozure	1
12	Sessions Learning the Samurai GBoH System: The Anegawa "Lite"	2008-03-08	Kozure	4
0	Rules Turmping and Activation Points	2008-01-29	T-Mo	0
2	General Recommendations on learning how to play this GMT game?	2008-01-04	JayShan	7

	Recommendations

Strong Recommendations
RAN	Alesia: Great Battles of History	Great Battles of Alexander, The: Deluxe Edition	Carthage - The Ancient World: Vol. II
The Devil's Horsemen	Caesar: Conquest of Gaul	Rise of the Roman Republic, the - The Ancient World: Vol. 1	Great Battles of Julius Caesar, the (the Civil Wars 48-45 B.C.)
Cataphract	Caesar in Alexandria

Standard Recommendations
Gustav Adolf the Great: With God and Victorious Arms	War Galley	This Accursed Civil War	Men of Iron - Volume I : The Rebirth of Infantry
War Galley - Salamis	Empire of the Sun	SPQR	Gringo!
Triumph & Glory: Battles of the Napoleonic Wars 1796-1809

Weak Recommendations
World War II: Barbarossa to Berlin	For the People

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303	The BoardGameGeek VASSAL Competitor's Directory -- wargamers wanted!	2007-09-09
199	The best board game designers - as chosen by Boardgamegeek	2005-01-14
126	Oops! I Bought the Wrong Game! (Games that Resemble Others)	2009-03-12
111	Show off your Avatars !	2009-04-12
71	Comprehensive Great Battles of History Geeklist	2006-12-07
67	The M'aider Math Trade	2009-04-29
63	Things You Did While BGG Was Down	2008-12-30
62	I've got a box!	2009-05-19
53	GMT P500 for November	2005-11-03
50	The games of Mark Herman	2005-07-25

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Board Game Rank:	1241
Wargame Rank:	263
Num Ratings:	123
Average Rating:	7.17
Standard Deviation:	1.45
Num Views:	34820
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Avg. Game Weight:	3.3
Fans:	0

Personal Comments:	57
Users Owning:	425
Users Wanting:	30
Users Trading:	12
Has Parts For Trade:	1
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Vassal Module	http://usuarios.lycos.es/greatbattles/conquest/Oth...	2006-03-28
Publisher's errata.	http://www.gmtgames.com/gbsa/samuraierrata.html	2005-02-22
Publisher's home page for the game.	http://www.gmtgames.com/gbsa/gmtgbsa0.htm	2005-02-22
Publisher's home page.	http://www.gmtgames.com	2005-02-22
The (Unofficial) Great Battles of History Support Pages	http://patriot.net/~townsend/GBoH/gboh.html	2005-02-22

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