#Spearmanship School Expansion (槍術流派 擴張) — Section Index
Contents
#Identity
In addition to the core 2 Spearmanship schools (Hozoin, Kan-ryu), this adds long-weapon-centered schools that short-weapon Swordsmanship cannot reach. The spear is a weapon where group tactics and individual mastery both appear — it includes both individual Spearmanship schools and group spear-formation (槍陣) schools.
#Design Goals
- At least 6, at most 8 new Spearmanship schools.
- A mix of school types:
- famous schools 2~3 (Takeda-ryu, Joseon spear art, Qi Jiguang's spear art)
- Secret Transmission 1 (a reclusive old spear veteran)
- Self-Taught Style 1 (a battlefield self-taught spearman)
- foreign styles 2~4 (pike square, Landsknecht, Maka spear, Joseon spear)
- Group-combat school special: some schools provide squad-level tactics (linked with 25-famous-squads).
#§ This Section's File List
ex2-11-01-new-schools.md— 8 new Spearmanship schools
#Reference Documents
Core required:
- Schools (流派)
- School Data (流派資料) — #5·6 (Hozoin, Kan-ryu)
- Skill List (技能目錄) — Spearmanship skill
1st expansion (format reference):
Within this expansion:
- Famous Squads (有名分隊) — Section Index — pike and Landsknecht link directly with famous squads
- Cross-Cultural School Index (汎文化 流派 索引) — Section Index
- National Tatsujin Tournament (全國達人戰) Model Scenarios — Section Index
#§ Scent — The Weight of a Single Shaft
A trading post in Nagasaki. An old swordsman who came from Ming China held a 5-metre bamboo staff-spear in one hand. As thin as the shaft was, it bent, and the steel spearhead at its tip held the evening light just as it was.
The Japanese samurai facing him — from the Takeda house's Red-Armor corps — gripped his yari short. 1.8 metres. The length he had handled all his life.
"The lengths differ," said the samurai.
"It is not that the lengths differ," the old swordsman answered — in written Chinese. "It is that the breath one uses differs."
The old swordsman held one breath. And he thrust the tip of the 5-metre spear into one point precisely. Pear-Blossom Single Point (梨花一點) — the licensed technique of Maka spear. The samurai knew that one point was the weak spot of his own breastplate — the seam at the center of his chest.
"In one point there are a thousand grains," said the old swordsman.
The samurai looked at his own yari. Then he looked at the old swordsman's bamboo staff-spear. Both were spears. Yet the two were not the same weapon. For the spear, length is not the weapon — breath is the weapon. A short yari can thrust twice in one breath, while a long bamboo staff-spear decides the enemy's radius with one thrust.
That day, for the first time in his life, the samurai realized he had been gripping his own spear without knowing it.
The spear holds the line — yet the grain of a single shaft runs as deep as a single sword.
"The sword guards the individual. The spear guards the line."