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• Samurai vs. Knight General Discussion · 21 Jul 2004, 00:48 Kijinnmaru wrote: But did the knights use it? After all, it's knights vs. samurai, not European history vs. samurai. Why don't we go further and say, knights vs. Japanese jet fighters, because they had built those in Wo…
• Samurai vs. Knight General Discussion · 20 Jul 2004, 12:19 Kijinnmaru wrote:If you think about it, samurai had and used firearms.(as in Sekigahara and Toba-Fushimi) Does that count in this contest? Indeed, but dont think about it to hard or you might think that the firearm is a…
• Samurai vs. Knight General Discussion · 19 Jul 2004, 12:17 I can't believe this thread is still rolling. Amazing. Anyways, an experiance of intrest. A couple weeks ago I was at a european martial arts seminar and we had the rare opportunity to test cut on quality (chain)maille …
• Samurai vs. Knight General Discussion · 28 Dec 2003, 15:05 Hi All, Thought I'd check back in and see how the discussion was going ;) so about the horse issue; a samurai was an archer on horse back.. and i have no idead those arrow were...but i remeber that european arrows could…
• Samurai vs. Knight General Discussion · 16 Dec 2003, 02:26 Yeh, I agree, the M-16 kicks ass. I'd have to say it's my favorite rifle for sure. Unfortunettly the military is looking at replacing it with a rifle called the XM-8. Which looks like something out of a fuckin space mov…
• Samurai vs. Knight General Discussion · 15 Dec 2003, 08:31 The G-36 and M-16 fire the same round aswell, out of the same length barrels. Ballistically, they might as well be the same gun. Both of them are very reliable and have around the same cyclic rate. Personally, I'd prefe…
• Samurai vs. Knight General Discussion · 14 Dec 2003, 21:54 once the knight's off his horse, he's toast, or tinmeat... and getting him off his horse is easy, all you need is along spear or a bow with an arrow to hit either him or the horse... *points at the french knights during…
• Samurai vs. Knight General Discussion · 14 Dec 2003, 17:18 Hello, If I might be so bold as to revive this topic for a moment I have a few things I'd like to add to the conversation at hand, bear with me, this will be a little long, but hopefully informative. First off, a little…