Asian armies?

Loki223 · Post by **Loki223** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:46 pm

I am new here and still reading through my book and the army books.

So far I Have seen no mention of the East.

I may have missed something and not adept at researching this forum yet.

Has any anouncemnt been made about the East? Samurai, Koreans.etc....

I have a Koryo Korean army and would love to get it back in action under this rule set and I have a buddy who is new to wargamming that wants to build a Samurai army.

Thank you for any help
-Loki

whitehorses · Post by **whitehorses** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:35 pm

Autumn next year I imagine, as Spring is going to be Biblical & the Dark Ages

SirGarnet · Post by **SirGarnet** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 2:09 am

However, you can probably put together a reasonable approximation based reading the past threads on these forums (a fair number on Japan) and good knowledge of the armies. Unoffiical lists may have been posted on the Web. My expectation is that the classification of Japanese armies will change over time as predominant combat methods changed and capabilities would adjust accordingly.

Mike

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 9:12 am

A supplement will be done next year - don't ask me when though

oneway76 · Post by **oneway76** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:03 am

Any links to those "unofficial" Samurai lists or some home brew rules? I'm starting an army for the Sengoku Jidai era. I think FoG would be a great rules set to game this time in history. I'd like to get away from the idea of heroic challenges, bit unrealistic for that time I think. Not sure on firearms and how the would fit into the rule system. Armies at that time where made up of mostly spear men anyway, guns where a small, but powerful, part of most forces. A standard army list would look something like this "10% samurai cavalry , 10% ashigaru w/ guns, 10% ashigaru with bows, 25% ashigaru w/ pike, 25% ashigaru w/ spear, 5% samurai w/ bow, 15% samurai w/ spear" - from Uesugi Kenshin over at TMP. This would be just a starting point with clan/army specialties like, more guns for Oda, more cavalry for Takeda, and warrior monks for the Ikko-Ikki, ect. The historic scenarios in the PC game Shogun Total War are great resource for force composition and battlefield layouts as well.

My first post, be kind

SirGarnet · Post by **SirGarnet** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 6:55 am

Go to the Army Design forum and search "japan" and "samurai" for some useful threads. Then come back to this forum and search to find more. Searches don't seem totally reliable in turning up posts with the search term used, so you may want to check all the subforums and look through the thread names for anything promising.

Cheers,

Mike