Battle of Ichi no Tani - WIP + 3

Just returned from Jo-Ann Fabrics and picked up a couple of yards of blue suede (yeah - like the 70's band) which will represent the sea portion of the battlefield. Here is the terrain pretty much finished - not much - I folded the tan felt mat and safety-pinned it to the blue suede mat underneath.

Thanks to a recent TMP posting, I checked out Jo-Ann's wooden toys rack and grabbed the three remaining "Pirate Ship" model kits (sorry kids). I plan to rework them a little into kobaya boats. These will be allowed to land, and leave, the shoreline. The larger vessel will have to stay 12" from the shoreline. A hero on the larger vessel will be allowed to board the smaller kobaya and reach the shore (& vice versa).

I think the terrain is a decent compromise for this scenario. The image below is from an early 17th Century screen painting of the battle. Note that the walls of the encampment are anachronistic and maybe a bit too well-made, as the area of the fortress was basically a small strip of beach.

The next image is a film still from a Japanese TV miniseries about the Gempei War (actually about the hero Minamoto Yoshitsune). I'm not sure if it was filmed on the actually location (probably not), but it may be a more historically accurate representation of the Taira camp. Note the red banners denoting the Taira Clan.