Hi guys, i just wanted to know if I need the "Operation Hinasho" (and the tokens and stuff included in the Hinasho pack) to play a stand alone army composed by Itami, Iroh, Mizu Kage and the Shogunate troopers. Thanks in advance.

Yo dou if you want to play Objetive mode, the objective tokens are included there.

Otherwise you dont.

As Shogunate is more limited in options than other factions, in my group Shogunate can use wolf and hoss as if they had a shogunate affiliation symbol in addition to their existing faction symbol. Hence Making Wolf simmilar to gorgei and Hoss simmilar to Oksana from an affiliation perspective.

Hoss with the shogunate is really fun to play and wolf offers much needed ranged firepower and objective abilities missing in the shogunate for objective based games.

If you would have to do a ranking of the Shogunate characters, what would it be? Hoss, Wolf, Iroh, Mizu, Itami.

If you use my home rule then I would say Hoss is the most powerful one, followed by Iroh and wolf basically tied for second.

Mizu and Itami are specialists depending on the game mode and the opponent, the other three are the best "all around" characters.

Mizu with shadowflash or infiltration can be key in a CTF or domination game, itami can be good against low mental opponents like the union heroesor troopers.

The problem with mizu is good stats with very bad weapones, the problem with Itami is good weapons with poor stats...