Talk:Amazoness/@comment-30850838-20170125054731/@comment-26419174-20170126155152

@ Lion. 1. Armor. I looked at the picture provided and I honestly fail to see studs there. I can see what might appear to be studs but it much more likely to be lacing the japanese used to tie the individual plates together. Furhtermore, going back to your firsdt post it appears to me that you are assuming that leather is a part of samurai armor that allowes mobility and flexibility. It is not so. When leather was used in armor creation it was boiled, cured or in general hardened so that it lost any flexibility. It was then used to make rigid elements in the same way iron or steel would be used. In fact, in the picture you provided all the red parts could be laquered iron(or even steel) or they could be laquered leather or may be a mix depending on just how rich that warrior was. Given it is a late-era type - probably entirely or mostly iron.

2. Weapons: Your second post misses the main point i brought up that goes thusly: katana is not a primary weapon. It is a back-up weapon in the same way a pistol is for modern military. In other words, a samurai that goes into battle  armed only with a katana is severely underarmed. He is lacking a main, primary weapon which could be one of many things. I mentioned spear and bow but it could also be a nodachi (two handed warsword), a warhammer, a gun or a polearm different then a spear. He would still have a katana, but he will only use it if the other weapons are no longer availavble. Now as for your second post comments on weapons, I agree withthe statement on the bow, but I fail to see how it adresses the main point. I also agree that samurai were trained with all those weapons, but that only reinforces my position: if he knows how to use all those different weapons, why would he go to the battlefiled without at least one of them, and only bring a sidearm instead? As for the the comment on the spear... It just doesn't make sence, honestly.

''And while the yari is a good polearm weapon,its commonly used by infantry and cavalry. ''

As opposed to samurai, who were neither and used some other way of locomotion instead?

P.S. goddamit, another wall of text! :-)