Cardboard Samurai

 

For combat scenes, it's often pretty easy to get confused as to who is where. It's therefore a good idea to use figures to keep track of everyone. Unfortunately, not everyone has masses of metal samurai figures and getting attacked by an assortment of fantasy monsters loses its charm pretty rapidly.

So, in the proud tradition of the cardboard mooks, here are the Cardboard Samurai! To help you keep track, the Arai are in black and the Nakanishikawa in brown, but you can use them as you see fit.

Here's how to use the cardboard samurai.

First follow the links to Cardboard samurai 1, Cardboard samurai 2.

The links will bring up a .gif of the cardboard characters in a new window. You can save the .gif files to your hard disk by click-and-holding (Mac) or right-clicking (PC) on the .gif to bring up the save dialog box. The figures are black and white, so that people with laser printers can still use them, and relatively Lo-rez, so they don't take too long to download.

Second, print the characters out either on light card or on paper (which can then be glued to loose card). NOTE! make sure to choose "fit to one page" when printing. On some printers/systems the sheets can extend out over several sheets, which is no good at all. If your printer can't hack this, you may need to open the file in a graphics application and resize it to one page.   Third, cut them out (along the solid lines), crease them along the dotted lines and fold them up as in the illustration. As they are folded up, insert a small coin ( a penny, one cent piece, 50 øre, whatever) into the bottom section, with a spot of glue on it, then fold and glue the back of the figure sections together.

And voila! Cardboard Samurai to use and enjoy!

 

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