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krazixs · 08-04-2003, 08:42 AM

They are right this topic is a bit unspecified. If you take both example at say the height of their popularity, in unmounted combat, and equal to skill. Then yes the fight would very interesting indeed. The knight wearing about 60-80 pounds more equipment (think traditionally dressed tournament armor) therefore taking his agility down quite a bit. The samurai now has the advantage of speed and agility however his weapon is ill equipped vs. someone in armor, meaning that his strikes would have to consist of lunges and thrusts, he would have to be a hell of a lot more accurate. Traditionally Samurai did not carry shields (I know some did just generally) so therefore all parrying and blocking will have to be with his katana and wazakazi (sp?) Remember also that dual wielding weapons wasn't familiar to Japan until Musashi brought his style back with him from learning with spanish fencers. Forgoing that let's assume the Samurai is versed in such fighting styles and is using his katana and wazikazi, giving him a bit of leeway as far as parrying goes, and making it a bit easier for him to score his accurate strikes. Now contrary to popular belief Knights weren't all THAT ponderous in their full armor and were benefitted with a lot of movement. Their use of weaponry can be put into a "martial" arts form of its own and they were quite formidable with their own weaponry. Just because Eastern nations were more prolific with different styles of marital arts doesn't mean they were the only nations to have it. Now all things considered in my own mind I would give the likelyhood of the first strike coming from the knight seeing as how the samurai might be more cautious in planning his hit. I think I would give the advantage to the knight simply cause of his ability to take a body hit and counter because of his armor. All though I would have to say the Samurai would indeed be more skillful as far as use of his weaponry goes. If you forgo defense to concentrate on attack, you have to be pretty damn sure your attack is effective.

Anyway just my 2 cents, interesting thought though

08-04-2003, 08:42 AM	#13 (permalink)
krazixs Psycho Location: courtin in the kitchen	They are right this topic is a bit unspecified. If you take both example at say the height of their popularity, in unmounted combat, and equal to skill. Then yes the fight would very interesting indeed. The knight wearing about 60-80 pounds more equipment (think traditionally dressed tournament armor) therefore taking his agility down quite a bit. The samurai now has the advantage of speed and agility however his weapon is ill equipped vs. someone in armor, meaning that his strikes would have to consist of lunges and thrusts, he would have to be a hell of a lot more accurate. Traditionally Samurai did not carry shields (I know some did just generally) so therefore all parrying and blocking will have to be with his katana and wazakazi (sp?) Remember also that dual wielding weapons wasn't familiar to Japan until Musashi brought his style back with him from learning with spanish fencers. Forgoing that let's assume the Samurai is versed in such fighting styles and is using his katana and wazikazi, giving him a bit of leeway as far as parrying goes, and making it a bit easier for him to score his accurate strikes. Now contrary to popular belief Knights weren't all THAT ponderous in their full armor and were benefitted with a lot of movement. Their use of weaponry can be put into a "martial" arts form of its own and they were quite formidable with their own weaponry. Just because Eastern nations were more prolific with different styles of marital arts doesn't mean they were the only nations to have it. Now all things considered in my own mind I would give the likelyhood of the first strike coming from the knight seeing as how the samurai might be more cautious in planning his hit. I think I would give the advantage to the knight simply cause of his ability to take a body hit and counter because of his armor. All though I would have to say the Samurai would indeed be more skillful as far as use of his weaponry goes. If you forgo defense to concentrate on attack, you have to be pretty damn sure your attack is effective. Anyway just my 2 cents, interesting thought though __________________ The Kender in your party has just screamed in fear. Please roll a d20 to see how many of your body parts are still identifiable.