Fire Emblem for the cube??!

[A Black Falcon]

With no real-world exaples of Medieval knights fighting Samurais, the arguement is pure speculation... as I'm sure you know.

There are a few things that ARE true... the Europeans did have much better armor, and they did use shields a lot... unlike Samurai who, if they even had shields, didn't use them much if at all..

Of course Samurais were also archers and Knights weren't, so you'd have to assume this is just a melee fight or it wouldn't be fair... and while Samurai swords probably are a little better than European ones, I doubt that they'd be so dramatically better that they would cut through the Knight's sword or something... :) And as for shields, while it wouldn't hold attacks forever of course, it'd definitely help... especially when combined with the knights' much better armor...

Oh... and N_A, you only say that they didn't prove their points because you refused to listen to them and they left the argument first... as far as I could tell, they definitely won it... you sure weren't able to fully refute their points...

And N_A, you act like you know all about it, but then discount the knights so much that it doesn' come off as anything other than a strong bias... you obviously only support one side and are doing all you can to find anything that supports it... I think you're overestimating the advantage a samurai has in weapons quality and underestimating how good the knights weapons and armor (not to mention training... you seem to refuse to believe that knights could fight well with swords or something...) are...

Remind me why someone resurrected this argument? Didn't it end like 6 months ago?