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>>3665779
It doesn't matter how many attack you do with a katana against a guy in full plate, you're not going to do any damage. Europeans are so good at making high quality steel in huge quantities that their plate armour use steel as hard as sword edges. You couldn’t even damage a plate armour by chopping at it with a great sword (which is made from superior steel compared to katana). Motherfuckers back in the days had to hold their sword inverted and bash the other guy through the armour until he gets knocked out from the force of impact.

>A well applied slash could topple that armor

fuck no. full suit of plate armour makes you pretty much invulnerable to slashing attacks. To take someone like that down, you have to either knock him out with percussive force or pentrating an unprotected area, which most likely mean you have to wrestle him to the ground first.

>>102343
>Plate armor looks really fucking heavy and mobility can't be optimal in it.
the equipment of a modern soldier is heavier than well made plate armour.

>the plate armor advantage can't be that great since arabs pwned the shit out of knights
learn your history. plate armour wasn't worn during the crusades, and it wouldn't have worked in those countries anyway, since it would be too hot.

katana weren't worse nor better than european swords; they were no razorblades unfit for real battlefield conditions (unlike those 19th century wallhangers and testcutting blades of japanese romanticists missing the "old days"), and knightly longswords were no crowbars in sword form. it is impossible to cut through plate armour with any sword. both weapons were used similarly and knights as well as samurai knew how to use them. it's a silly thing to assume that professional soldiers, who would only survive if they were capable of defending themselves on the battlefield, didn't know proper techniques to do so. against an armoured opponent a knight would grab the sword by it's blade (which is possible with a good pair of gauntlets or a ricasso) and use the tip like a short spear to thrust for gaps in his opponent's armour. but even more than that, he'd try to grapple his opponent to the ground to finish him with a dagger. "bashing" would only be done with hilt and guard of the sword, but never with the blade, since it'd break.