[quote=@AirBender]
I love how this has gone from bitching about our RP problems to a conversation about weaponry from the late 1500s early 1600s.
[/quote]

Well, I'd like to imagine that cathartic things should (and naturally come to be) be balanced out with fun discussions or at least rants that are funny enough to make everyone genuinely feel better.

[quote=@Mr Allen J]
[@NuttsnBolts] Katanas were only really useful against Japanese armor, because they had really bad armor compared to Europeans. lol
[/quote]

The armor was actually pretty good. It's not great against big, bone-breaking weapons, but for things like the arrows, medium to small blades, (I'd argue that armor was the last thing you'd want to hit with a katana, since you're probably far more likely to get stuck than you are to cut someone) and improvised farming equipment that the average samurai had to deal with back then, the protection was amazing, and it was very rugged, relatively light, and allowed for hella mobility.