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Samurai vs. Knight : who wins ?

  • The Knight would win.

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  • The Samurai would win.

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  • The battle would be close, but there would be no winner.

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  • I think Aayla Secura would smash them both into tiny pieces, and wow ! She's so sexy !

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nekoi

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The knight holds a lesser imposed honour system.. so he could stab you through the back, or if you didn't have a weapon. :\
 

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nekoi wrote:
The knight holds a lesser imposed honour system.. so he could stab you through the back, or if you didn't have a weapon. :\
On the contrary, many traditions of European knighthood were strongly religiously based. There was a big emphasis on getting right with God, and living a moral life at all times, because you never knew when you'd be struck dead and facing the judgment of God. So I don't think a knight would necessarily feel free to act "dishonorably"; in fact you could argue that he a stronger reason to be honorable than the samurai.

Besides which, if the knight really had the advantage of surprise like that, I imagine there's a fair chance he'd just take the enemy as a prisoner for ransom instead, depending on how valuable he was. That happened a lot back in the day.
 

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Guitarists and bassists work together, while knights and samurais would have killed each other.
 

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flowersofnight wrote:
nekoi wrote:
The knight holds a lesser imposed honour system.. so he could stab you through the back, or if you didn't have a weapon. :\
On the contrary, many traditions of European knighthood were strongly religiously based. There was a big emphasis on getting right with God, and living a moral life at all times, because you never knew when you'd be struck dead and facing the judgment of God. So I don't think a knight would necessarily feel free to act "dishonorably"; in fact you could argue that he a stronger reason to be honorable than the samurai.

Besides which, if the knight really had the advantage of surprise like that, I imagine there's a fair chance he'd just take the enemy as a prisoner for ransom instead, depending on how valuable he was. That happened a lot back in the day.

I can somewhat agree with you, yet I am hesitant.. As I read stories of knights who have stabbed eachother in the back (literally) when unarmed for reason of jealousy or rivalry.. (Also with the instinct to win a war.)

But I have no deffinate examples, so I wont disagree with you or say that you're incorrect in any way. XD;;
 

Gehenna

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The age of knights was what, 10th Century to the 15th? The height of the Samurai began around the 16th I believe, and continued on until the 19th. A less anachronistic comparison would be the european musketeer or rifleman vs. the samurai, to which the edge almost certainly goes to the european.


Anyway, if anyone really is interested in this, check out this page.
 

Asumi

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Halvorc wrote:
http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Samurai&word2=Knight


Eh eh, YEAH ! ::dix::
Now, how can the Knight win over the Samurai ? :/
I didn't get it
 

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But the Samurai has Ken Watanabe and Tom Cruise on theirs :grin:

That means the Samurai have scientology on their side ::shifty::
 

Halvorc

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But we (Knights) have the powerful Rabbit of Deth !

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Ken Watanabe is a worthy opponent, but Tom Cruise would succumb to the rabbit of Caerbannog and if not, he would be destroyed by the Holy Hand Grenade.
 
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