Ashigaru Teppo (Crossbow) 15mm miniatures

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Ashigaru Teppo (Crossbow) 15mm miniatures

Post by Stewe »

Hi all!

Working on a Japanese army for the Empire Of the Dragon book coming this atum.

And Im trying to locate somefigures for that army!

Ashigaruu Teppo crossbows

Dixon and Peter Pig has nice figures for era but no crossbows...

Anyone has any ideas?
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Just found out there the Nips didn't use Crossbows
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Post by ars_belli »

The teppo was a Japanese adaptation of the Portuguese arquebus:
http://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Teppo

One of the best (IMHO) FoG AARs to date features a unit of Ii ashigaru armed with the teppo:
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll26 ... CN2631.jpg
viewtopic.php?t=8736

Domo,
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Post by Stewe »

ars_belli wrote:The teppo was a Japanese adaptation of the Portuguese arquebus:
http://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Teppo

One of the best (IMHO) FoG AARs to date features a unit of Ii ashigaru armed with the teppo:
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll26 ... CN2631.jpg
viewtopic.php?t=8736

Domo,
Scott
Domo arigato Scott San

Nice reading.
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Post by numbskull »

Peter Pig only uses 15mm AK-47. I am just wondering why he did not use crossbow?
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Post by irondog068 »

The Japanese first using the crossbow (umjio I think) copying the chinese version. It fell out of favor around 1000 AD.

The Teppo (matchlock) was first brought by Portagese traders in 1545. And in 10 years it was first used in combat by formed Ashigaru units. The Japanese did make some improvements to the weapon 1) a cover that swung closed protecting the pan with its loose powder. 2) standard caliber. They were also the first to use rotational fire during the battle of Nagashino. Which was 50 years before it was used in the west.
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