Whether you win or lose a battle, true victory may be attained by the epic poems composed in honor of the fallen warriors.

The player who wins Imperial Poets gains a number of Victory Points equal to the total number of figures that were killed in the course of this Battle. It doesn’t matter which player the figures belonged to, nor how they were killed (whether by Seppuku, by a Monster’s ability, or at the conclusion of the Battle), all killed figures award Victory Points to the player who wins Imperial Poets. In order to more easily count them, keep killed figures separate from each player’s reserves until Imperial Poets has been resolved.