ADLG Koryo Korean v Samurai

Another competition practice game of ADLG, this time for Simon and his Early Samurai. I think the only historical opponents for Samurai at this period were Mongols or other Samurai. Neither of those seemed interesting choices so instead I went for the nearby Koryo Korean army with lots of impact cavalry and some heavy foot.

The terrain mainly ended up on my side of the table but the Samurai army was considerably wider than the Koreans:

The Koreans attempted a complex redeployment with the right flank cavalry moving to their left, the heavy foot sliding to oppose the Samurai cavalry and the Korean right flank cavalry splitting on either side of the heavy foot:

The Samurai immediately inflict shooting hits on the Korean cavalry:

The Korean cavalry on the right charge in but are overlapped and have taken damage. The Samurai cavalry have also been very effective shooting at the Korean heavy foot:

The Korean cavalry charge fails miserably:

On the Korean far left the Korean cavalry has made some progress wiping out the Samurai light horse and starting to roll up the flank of the Samurai cavalry. Everywhere else is looking grim for the Koreans whose flank is held by a light horse which has been charged in the flank by some Samurai foot:

 Somewhat remarkably the Korean light horse almost kill the Samurai foot!:

The light horse have disposed of their opponents but more Korean cavalry have gone down and some of the Korean foot have been shot to death:

The Korean army quickly collapses to defeat:

My second rather dismal ADLG game in a week. The redeployment I attempted didn't work and I think the army was just too small to cope with the much wider Samurai army. The Samurai shooting was very effective and much of my army had taken hits before they even got into contact.

I'll have to put more effort into choosing my army and coming up with a plan next time!