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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
By the same token, a samurai would get runned over if he's not fast enough to get out of the way and you can't get out of the way if you have buddies beside you.
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Originally Posted by zraver
Actually the knight could do somersaults in his armor and had a great deal of flexibility. Full late period Gothic plate only weighs about 60 pounds less than the average US soldier wears today. It also offers massive protection vs hand held slashing and stabbing weapons (other than pole arms) and any missile not equipped with a bodkin point. Japanese style emphasized slashing and with weapons that simply did not have the power to pierce the steel hide.
many knights were also as thoroughly trained in hand to hand as any Spartan warrior having begun military training at ages as young as 7.
You should really watch some of the re-creationist who do live steel or use ratan. They move quick and the attacks are brutal. If you can watch an SCA event like the Pennsic wars or Antir vs the West
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i wouldn,t expect anything else from wab armor guys, you are right thou, but you paint samurai as he is a helpless baby.
they too had horses, trained since early age, as well, shoot bows...ect. plus they had other weapons besides sword,
there really no way to prove either, but if i had to bet i,d bet on samurai.