15mm Sohei Monks

The Samurai army has now been completed with the completion of a contingent of Sohei monks. The bulk of this force is comprised of nineteen elements of warrior monks armed with naginata:

The Sohei monks were an influential order of Buddhist monks who were involved in many of the Samurai conflicts of the medieval and early renaissance period as allies of various clans. They apparently had saffron-coloured garments with white scarves, which is the theme I employed for these figures:

They are essentially an ally within the DBMM Samurai army list with their own ally-general. Unfortunately Eureka do not have a figure specifically for this purpose but I had a spare Samurai general who will make the command stand easy to distinguish:

The army list also allows for four elements of Sohei bow. Again, Eureka do not have a specific bow-armed monk figure, but I thought their early Ashigaru bow would suffice especially painted up in the same theme:

And that is the Samurai army finally completed. It ended up (as usual) being far larger than I had anticipated, with 976 individual figures completed in all, comprised of 909 foot figures and 67 horses.

Next up will be some more Napoleonic French cavalry. These have been primed but collecting dust for the past six months, so it will be good to get stuck back into them.