Matt,
Hope it will be enjoyable, and give us your impressions afterwards!
Even if my order ships in time, I don't think it'll make it for the
weekend, so I guess I can focus on the Vassalengine adaptation in the
meantime...
At some point it would be interesting to discuss strategy, since you seem
to have quite some experience in chess-style games. Personally, I have a
much better (yet still not very good) understanding of Go strategy than
Shogi, or even western chess, since it was never a game popular in my
circle of friends/gamers.