Fire Emblem for the cube??!

[big guy]

hmmmm...samurai on horses...i'd never even considered that.

shit, there goes my argument.

now, before i fall victim to this argument, i have no real position on it, i'm only playing devils advocate. i do not really know enough about what i'm talking about to even pretend to have an informed opinion, but my desire to attain knowledge on this matter is going to have me questioning what's been said so that i may have a better understanding of the topic as a whole. now that the disclaimer is out of the way...

i find it hard to believe that a samurai sword could chop right through iron plating. while steel may be stronger than iron, iron is no slouch, it's not like they were wearing aluminum. also, i can't imagine that the europeans weapons were that inferior. it seems to me that a lot of care went into crafting their weapons and they took a lot of pride in having good weapons.

on another note, did samurai use lances when mounted? because if they only had their swords, i knight would be at a great advantage.

like i said, i don't really know which side is better,but it seems hard for me to believe that the samurai could possibly be as superior as some here seem to think.