Asian Siege Weapons

Let's start a thread where we post Asian Siege Weapons.  I'll try to update this thread once in a while

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Origin: Korea

Range: 150m~2km depending on shinkichon

Weapon: Shinkichon: Explosive arrow.  It is divided into small shinkichon, middle shinkichon, and big shinkichon.  small shinkichon had an average range of 150m, while big shinkichon went from 1.5km to 2km!

Official Creation age: 1448 by a King

Attack method: there are 100 holes to put in Shinkichon.  Every volley, one flames 15 shinkichon.  Every shinkichon flying left a heavy smokescreen with a thorring thunder, to give extra psycological shock to enemy.  The method has not changed much compared to modern rocket launchers

Other information:  It was used principally to scare off normads from the north of Korea.  It was also used during imjin war, especially in Fort Hengju, where Shinkichon mowed down rows of Japanese musketeers.

It can shoot either 200 arrows or 100 metal bullets.  It is effective for mass formations but takes extremely long to reload.  It was particularly effective in the battle of Haengju Sansung, because the japanese decided that they wanted to take the for by sheer force of numbers and marched up the slope in formations....(gubookjanggoon)

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Did you know that CANNONS are invented from CHINA too?

In the MING dynasty, China used Cannons to blow up city walls. In that time no other countries had Cannin until dynasties later...

Korean had Cannons before Ming (not before song however), where they used it to blow Japanese pirates into pieces

Oozth of Japan-~! =_=

(In my short thought, Hwacha was not called siege weapon. How can shoot the castle with Hwacha)

which Hwacha?

the armoured chariot that you saw in the game 'Age of Kings' is not really much of a unique concept, and it could be individually developed in many places

the historical muliple rocket-arrow launcher cart, which you see in the topic post, on the other hand, was developed and used in Korea alone

oh ok,

then you should say 'rockets' originated in China.

the 2 carts seem very different other than that they both launch 'rockets'

Originally posted by Gubook Janggoon Originally posted by Conan the destroyer Old thread, but... The Hwacha originates in China, not Korea. It was probably developed during the civil war between Han and Ming, then transferred to Korea. So Yun has told me.  The Houjianche of China though is designed differently and seemed to have shot mostly bigger projectiles such as spears IIRC. Here are some pics. Here's a thread at CHF discussing whether the two are different or not. Here

Some do seem to fire larger projectiles, but not all. Example.