Slitherine

Hey

Has anyone made a Korean army from the Imjin (1592-1598) Wars? This would go well with later Samurai armies people have posted and this conflict is an extremely colorful period in both countries histories.

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"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. "

FoG:R will cover this, along with the Japanese of the period.

I have a half finished Yi Korean which stops at 1500 with the last list in "Empires" These will go up against my Japanese. I stopped here because I am not a great fan of firearms. I agree with your comment on colourful as the uniforms of this period are amazing.

Spartacus wrote:I stopped here because I am not a great fan of firearms.

Apparently the Koreans of the 16th C shared your view except for artillery - until the Japanese forcibly demonstrated the effectiveness of small arms in the field. To their credit, the Koreans got cracking with tooling up for firearms and reforming their politically-hamstrung military system with a reorganization and a draft. My understanding is that the company level units of the new army structure combined archers, arquebusiers, swordsmen and spearmen. It's logical that the surviving skilled archers would be supplemented by easily trained and equipped arquebusiers, but I wonder about how that was actually coordinated in the field, and the extent to which they copied Japanese or Ming methods.

There seem to be a great many interesting stories in the war, such as the 3,000 Korean auxiliaries from Hoeryong who joined the Japanese and the Koreans turning over their own cowardly or incompetent leaders to the Japanese.

Throw in the naval actions, Ming expeditionary forces, and Jurchen raiders and it offers interesting scenarios.

MikeK wrote:

Spartacus wrote:I stopped here because I am not a great fan of firearms.

Apparently the Koreans of the 16th C shared your view except for artillery - until the Japanese forcibly demonstrated the effectiveness of small arms in the field.

There is a nice article on this campaign in a recent edition of Arquebusier, the Journal of the Pike and Shot society.

nikgaukroger wrote:FoG:R will cover this, along with the Japanese of the period.

Is there any projected publishing date of this?