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[The Architect]

Or that tonfa and your supposedly godly upper body strength are, together, humanity's only hope in the event of a zombie outbreak.

[Nikov]

You convince the interviewer that you really, honestly think that a katana can slice a tank in half and argue for at least an hour about it.

Is this referring to the time I relayed the story of the Japanese officer and his bravest men who charged three Russian tanks with his katana and managed to scare them into retreating? Because I never said they cut through a tank, and that's documented in the paperwork for the medal he got.

[Jackrabbit]

No, I was referring to the people who believe that katanas are folded a thousand times and can cut through tanks and how they always get in arguments with /tg/, a place full of serious katana hate.

[Nikov]

Okay. Double checking.

Turns out the Japanese had really shitty local iron deposits and all that folding was the best they could do to work out the impurities. Meanwhile 11th century Vikings made swords that could be flexed over 90 degrees and return to true.

Can we derail this into knight versus samurai? That's so many kinds of I-want-to-go-there.

[Chaoswizkid]

Samurai versus knights? But, you know, the whole Norman thing of conquering England, and knights being Norman/Norse, and the whole "I am viking, I are make steel from peat moss." and so on and so forth with the superior steel.
Samurais did have bows, though...

[Il Palazzo]

And so did vikings! Yeeeeeah! Samurai debate!

[Phmcw]

Samurai lacked heavy armor \thread

[Bauglir]

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[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

I counter all your men in tin cans with my longbow-men.

[RedWarrior0]

I counter your longbow men with M134 minigunners and a few artillery pieces, gunships, and bombers.

[Nikov]

Longbows aren't terribly effective against full plate armor as it turns out. Most French casualties at Agincourt were by the poleaxe after trudging through the mud and arrows to get there.

[Jackrabbit]

I read that. I have to admit, Knight Vs. Samurai arguments on /tg/ are incredibly interesting.

[Leafsnail]

My understanding is that a lot of swords are blunter than you'd expect, but are heavy enough to cause extreme damage anyway.

It could just be a matter of design.  I mean, katanas can't really go through armour because they didn't need to.

And I always find the videos more interesting.  Although they're generally just displays of cool swordsmanship rather than helping the debate.

[Aqizzar]

Alright, no.  Stop this right now.  I've said it before and I'll say it again, nothing sparks an argument on the Internet, or pisses me off, as fast as a bunch of nerds who've never touched a weapon arguing about the relative merits of Medieval warfare.  All of you shut the Hell up, unless you've got something oil-spill related to say.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Alright, no.  Stop this right now.  I've said it before and I'll say it again, nothing sparks an argument on the Internet, or pisses me off, as fast as a bunch of nerds who've never touched a weapon arguing about the relative merits of Medieval warfare.  All of you shut the Hell up, unless you've got something oil-spill related to say.

We could remove the oil by firing cotton-tipped arrows at it.
With longbows.

Longbows aren't terribly effective against full plate armor as it turns out. Most French casualties at Agincourt were by the poleaxe after trudging through the mud and arrows to get there.

And you're absolutely right. It didn't help them that the knights also got impatient and trampled the French crossbowmen and infantry trying to charge.