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Unbridled9 posted...

I think another big problem is that people tend to compare Sengoku-Era Samurai (appx: 1600 A.D.) to early feudal era knights (appx: 1000 A.D.) 600 years is kind of a huge thing in terms of technology even in those troubled times. Heck, just looking at the variety of swords knights had available to them in comparison to the Samurai should reveal just how different the technology and technological requirements were between the two.

That's not to say the samurai weren't extremely deadly and effective. It took a lot of work to become great as either. But they were two different warriors from two different cultures with two very different manners in which to approach war and, unfortunately for the Samurai, European armor was getting so good that they were starting to forgo shields where as Samurai basically lived in a world without them in the first place.

Yeah, I mean to put a point on what war looked like at the period, the English were fighting the Powhatan in America in 1610, with muskets. But the end of the 15th century, the idea of a knight being the backbone of an army was gone, everyone just had armies with firearms.

The knight would of been more 11th to 14th Century really. The Samurai did't really change much from the 11th to the 16th Century though, and only then because Europeans rocked up with good for trade like metal cuirass armour (that started to replace the then centuries old Lemella armour they made) and firearms. The latter changed the way the Japanese did war immensely (Like it did everywhere to be fair)
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