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"Facing heavy armor with a rapier is not the best weapon choice"
Come again? Rapiers in the hands of a skilled user were quite effective against most heavy armours. They target the unprotected ares rather easily. Firearms and rapiers are what killed heavy armour use on the battlefield. Sure, a rapier would have a bit of a time against someone in Maximillian plate, but very, very few people owned or fielded Maxi plate. Heavy armour was more often chain or a combo of plate and chain, either of which were eminently defeatable by proper use of a rapier.
Musashi studied in the West? Don't recall that, but I don't claim to be a scholar....
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