Admirals and Yi Sun-sin

Is he legitimately the greatest naval commander/tactician in history?


If not, who is?

If so, who else would you say is at the top of the pack? Nelson? De Ruyter? Nimitz?

No. Probably Nelson.

Didn't this nigga never ever been in a naval battle let alone led one when he started being admiral?

Yep. He was a high ranking officer on the Jurchen border that got admiraled because the corrupt officials in the king's clique felt threatened and posted him in a position where he had no experience in the hope they'd expose him. In turn he became, arguably, the most successful admiral in history and the most famous Korean commander.

That is some suspicious shit.

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Stay aside, kid

It usually goes De Ruyter > Yi Sunsin >Roger de Lauria > the rest

Weren't all his battles on rivers?

He mainly btfo of the Japs because he had topography on his side. Not sure how great he'd be in open ocean combat.

He mostly fought on the open sea.

Weren't traditional Indian ships pretty small and shitty as they were more for commerce rather than heavy-duty naval combat? They had like, what, 20~30 people per ship?

It's more like the Battle of Salamis. Technically on the ocean but very close to the coastlines so you have to be really good at navigating around rocks and avoiding shallow reefs.

Please tell me their ships looked better

>ywn be a proto-HUE taking pot shots at poo in loos and killing hundreds per volley

This just makes me wish there were more quality naval war movies made these days. The last great one was probably Master and Commander.

I'm still waiting for a dope Nelson biopic or miniseries in the vain of HBO's John Adams.

The last great one was The Admiral: Roaring Currents, about Yi, starring Oldboy himself, Choi Min Sik

Portuguese ships were mainly designed for commerce as well. However, they went for long distance trade around the Atlantic, necessitating larger, more heavily-built ships. There's also the matter of superior European cannon technology, but that goes without saying.

Nelson's pretty dope, but in all seriousness his most famous victory at Trafalgar wasn't as impressive as Yi Sun-sin's Battle of Myeongnyang.

Although trafalgar is arguably the most important sea battle in Britsh, maybe world history.

There's a lot of books, movies, and dramas about Yi Sunshin (not "Yi Sun-sin", Korean Romanizations are retarded). He is considered a national hero like King Gwanggaeto, a great conqueror, and King Sejong, inventor of Korean writing system and great ruler in all aspects.

But most of the stuff about him is in Korean. I recommend the 2004 drama "The Immortal Yi Sun-sin" if you're interested.

Who is the greatest American naval commander?
French?
German?
Russian?
Chinese?
Japanese?
Roman?
Carthaginian?
Ottoman?
Byzantine?
Venetian?
Spanish?

Either Monkey D Luffy or Dread Pirate Roberts

>There's also the matter of superior European cannon technology, but that goes without saying.
Not always. Persia and some Indian kingdoms (Mysore, Travancore) beat invading Europeans in naval warfare in later centuries but the Portuguese had an advantage over everybody in the 16th century.

They lost it all in the upcoming century tho and kept felling behind since then.

It's not that he was a great naval commander, it's that the Japanese were shit at naval battles. The Ming didn't think much of the naval abilities of the Japanese and thought the Siamese were better sailors.

t. Brainlet

Myengyongyang wasn't particularly impressive, unless you find "stand off and pummel ships with cannons that have no ability to retaliate in kind" impressive.