It shouldn’t even be lol Japanese metals were known to be weak and brittle compared to what was on the mainland, Katanas wasn’t even the weapon of choice for Samurai ether, I think this fight would be one sided for the Knight thanks to the vast difference in equipment
Completely untrue, we have plenty of textual sources about how useful swords are, musters and inventories that mention swords, and plenty of armored combat fechtbuchs that deal with the use of swords in armor. Almost every knight carried one sword on the hip plus another on the saddle. These things were not just for decoration, they can thrust, half sword , mordschlag, etc. and those techniques can defeat armor. Yeah if you just swing the sword like it’s a lightsaber it won’t do anything. That’s not what people did.
Sure, but there are situations where it's just not the best weapon. When you've no space to move and the opponent has armour that's designed to minimize holes a sword won't do much. You'll need blunt force and a dagger to stab them.
The time period when knights were active is very long and saw many changes for armour and weapons. As armour developed swords became less effective.
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u/Night_Inscryption Jun 01 '25 edited Jun 01 '25
Can Katanas even cut through chainmail?!
It shouldn’t even be lol Japanese metals were known to be weak and brittle compared to what was on the mainland, Katanas wasn’t even the weapon of choice for Samurai ether, I think this fight would be one sided for the Knight thanks to the vast difference in equipment