The combat I would say is the weakest part of the game as you don't control the combat. You can build up walls and the like to prevent people/beasts just walking in and even have soldiers (all of them unique as there really isn't fodder unless you design them that way and with a generic name like Outpost Soldier) standing on top of the walls with crossbows (that you do need ammo for) to shoot any would-be attackers. There is permadeath so any of your characters can die and if you kill enemies on your outpost and don't remove the bodies than other wild beasts will come to snack on the dead and possibly your living as well. The game isn't really much strategy though except knowing when to run away and if you want to catch bandits and either sell them into slavery or (with mods) recruit them as fodder. It can be slow paced, but the game has an x2/x4 speed multiplier for if you want your characters to train on stations you can build in order to up their stats. The next 10 hours were filled with me recruiting more people, starting up a faction, and overthrowing a City. I decided to start up as the base scenario and the next thing I had known 10 hours had passed, I amassed a small fortune and had hired 4 other people to help me mine up and it was then that I hit a snag because I wanted to start crafting my own gear and couldn't build near the city I had started up in. about 2 months ago I saw a video where I could create my own list of characters and have them try to survive in the wasteland. The two kote pictured below, the first of which (on the left) I was given about maybe seven or eight years ago (re-palmed since), and the second that I was only given a few weeks back, are pretty much the highest quality kote I have.Okay, I had bought the game a few years back and never loaded it up. Mostly there is nothing I can do with what was recieved, so I tend to hand them off to people that need it more (in a couple of cases I have actually donated boxes of equipment to clubs abroad), but every now and then I find a diamond in the rough. Over the years I have received pretty much any piece of second-hand kendo equipment you can imagine (last month I received a WWII katana… more on that in a future article). I semi-often (not as much nowadays as I used to) have things given to me. Verdict: awesome kote for the serious pracitioner, whatever their experience level.īTW, kote fetishist should be sure and check out the following couple of articles regarding some custom kote I had made: I think, however, these kote have changed my viewpoint! I am someone who almost always emphasises simple practicality (does it do the job? how much is it?) and never really seriously factors comfort in to the equation when considering bogu. To be totally honest, these kote, along with a men that I got from KendoStar a couple of years back, are the most comfortable peices of bogu I own, hands down. Therefore, the best stuff I have at work I take out of rotation and only wear during jigeiko with visiting students or teachers.) (Obviously, any equipment I use at work on a daily basis gets beaten up pretty badly and ends up having a shorter shelf-life than normal. In fact, they are so good that I have already pulled them out of rotation at work (all my equipment gets tested in the crucible of my daily work keiko regime first) and now group them with the two “mystery” kote mentioned below. Lately, many newer models of kote sometimes cut a few corners for the sake of cost or or to make them lighter, these certainly did not fall into that category.Īfter using them for the last 8 weeks-or-so, and after an initial tightness across the fingers (which disappeared after a few uses), I am pleased to say that the kote exceeded expectations. When I first got the kote I was first struck by how nice they looked as well as the quality of the build. Before going, I confirmed Andy from KendoStar would be attending and ordered some equipment from him, including a pair of SHINOBU Hybrid-Stitched kote. As I mentioned in a prior post, this year again I headed to Edinburgh to teach a summer kendo seminar.
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