Khurasan Miniatures: Jurchen Jin Dynasty

Khurasan Miniatures haben eine neue 15mm Range in ihrem Shop die „Jurchen Jin Dynasty“.

We’ve just released 15mm Jurchen as opponents for our popular Sung Chinese range. It’s a complete range for the Jurchen Jin dynasty who were the epic foes of the Sung, in the century before the Mongols came and swept both dynasties away. The Jurchen were Manchurian horse warriors who overthrew their Khitan Liao overlords and established their own dynasty in the north of China.

There are seven codes available — two of them, Chinese unarmoured crossbows and Chines unarmoured swordsmen, would be equally useful for the Sung range. Available now.

The Jurchen Jin Dynasty have been made as the virtually eternal foes of our popular 15mm Sung Chinese range. The Jin dynasty was founded in 1115AD, when, with the help of the Sung Chinese, these Manchurian horse warriors rebelled against their Khitan Liao masters and established their own empire. They soon fell out with their erstwhile Sung Chinese allies, and campaigns for control of Sung territory they had occupied during the revolt began in 1125AD and went on, with varying intensity and constant changes of fortune, for over a century. The Jin Dynasty was ultimately overthrown, after a long and hard fight, by the Mongols in 1234.

Jurchen cavalry was very good and was described as fighting in mixed formations with heavily protected lancers in the front rank, backed by lighter armed and armoured horse archers — some of these were unarmoured, others in the middle ranks presumably lightly-armoured. For infantry they employed northern Chinese and other peoples in light formations. There is also mention of a very heavily armoured elite called the Iron Pagoda, which are often interpreted as cataphract style cavalry. Some game systems allow these to be infantry, and if you choose to follow that interpretation, you may wish to use the Polearm infantry from our Sung Chinese range. (There was a great deal of overlap between the dress and equipment of the Chinese and the Jurchen in this period.)

Preis: 4.99$ – 9.99$

Quelle: Khurasan Miniatures