Bushido List Discussion- Building Around Dudiko

 Another list discussion, but this time going to Bushido and talking about how I build lists for Dudiko. A really nice sniper model and one of my favourite sculpts in the game, so I've played around a lot with her and I think the 2 list variants below are my favourite ways to use her even though she isn't especially a huge focus of either of them. 

Ghost

Dudiko

-Disguise

Karapan

Kouhei

-Poisoned Weapons

Hiretsuna

Theme- Skirmish Mission

Herbal Remedy

Jigoku Berry

Poison Vial

Shadow Moves

Smoke Bomb x3

While being a list with Dudiko in it, this is also my main list for Shadow Wind Clan and something I really love to play. It has a lot of ninja tricks, some really efficient killing and enough scenario jank to make it fun. Kouhei is your killer with his rapid firing poison knives, and Karapan also is a great way to burn out enemies quickly as it is a great budget killer too. Ghost is there to be Ghost and fit wherever he is needed to score VP as much as possible, and Hiretsuna ideally avoids trouble and sneaks onto an idol where it can do the most work. In terms of Dudiko, she tends to hide where it's safer and she can start shooting things as well as she can, taking advantage of Camouflage to keep from being hit back, and ideally she can do this while in a position to take zones or reach objectives. 

Axiam

Ghost

Dudiko

Karapan

Hiretsuna

Theme- Skirmish Mission

Herbal Remedy

Jigoku Berry

Shadow Moves

Smoke Bomb x2

This list Dudiko is in because she is a North Star Ninja, and the list is made to get more out of Axiam's ability to take any North Star Ninja's Ki Feats. I've talked about how best to use this facet of Axiam a bit in my KKZ overview so I won't talk about it that much here, but like the list above you have a variety of ninjas to do different jobs, Karapan to be a cheap harassment piece and in the middle of it is Dudiko to be able to snipe out key pieces that pop up on the table.

In general both of these lists rely on the rest of the warband to be bigger threats and get stuck into the opponent where they have to be dealt with, while Dudiko is more of a scalpel to shoot out weaker enemies or support pieces. All the events in here are made to maximise the mind games and damage potential of the warband while also keeping them safe, which Dudiko also helps to do with her own smoke bomb effect. Skirmish Mission is really just the best option of the themes as I've said before as it lets you get a little bit extra efficiency with your terrain and equipment cards to tailor them to the exact situation you're looking at and I really like that part of the theme, plus Disguised is really nice to have on anyone and getting it every turn for free is great.