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Originally Posted by Boogoose  Here's a favourite discussion point of mine:
A 14th century European knight could beat, in single dismounted combat, a Japanese Samurai from the same era. A lot of people I know seem to back the Samurai, because as we all know the Japanese have magical powers and a katana can cut through a Challenger Tank and weighs less than an idea, but I think the knight would win because he is at least the equal in training to the samurai, physically much bigger and stronger, and wearing armour that is proof against a sword cut on most of its surface area.
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Japanese culture was always vastly inferior to our own in terms of martial skill. They were very lucky to not become a colony of one of the European Empires to be honest.