An incident at the Siege of Tsingtau 1914

[commissarmoody]

Vary intersteing, we offten forget in the west that, we also had/have a long and stored trediton in hand to hand combate also. To bad mondern firearms make mostly useful to insteal an aggrasive maner into your troops.

[warrenpeace]

There was a thread on some forum about whether or not a medieval European knight or Japanese samaurai would have won.  There were some pretty convincing arguments put forward about the quality of European armor and European medieval fighting styles.  Not my period really, but it was pretty interesting.  I suppose there must be some writing about sword fighting techniques over the last 1000 years that would shed some light on this topic.

[Poliorketes]

I've witnessed several knight vs. samurai discussions and I'm always amazed how many people firmly believe the tales of the superiority of samurai swords.  Must have been caused by the Highlander-Movie! 

The most funny part of the discussion is always the ridiculous thesis of katanas being able to cut through gothic plate.