Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Samurai Armour Full Evaluation" video.

  1. The reaction of the eastern European powers to the battle of Legnica and Mohi, that ultimately led to the repulsion of the Mongol attempts to invade Europe, was that to increase the number of heavy knights and crossbowmen in the army and decrease that of light cavalry and foot soldiers, precisely cause the heavy cavalry and the crossbowmen, despite teir small number, proved to be very effective at Mohi. The mounted archers infact seems to be a higly flexible force, but really have many limitations. They need a lot of space to be effective (infact a mounted archer, to fight a knight, has to throw the arrows while retreating), and are mostly useless in night battles, while a formation of heavy cavalry need only 100m of plain ground to launch a charge, and crossbowmen can be shielded from arrows and be lethal for the horses. Another innovation was to not be involved in huge pitched battles, where the superior coordination of the Mongols would have given them the high ground over the undisciplinated European nobles, but to fight them in smaller skirmishes, where a big coordination was not needed.
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  2. Is not a question of advantages. Samurai armors were light armor for European standards, and so have to be compared with European light armors (half armors, corsaletti, ecc...) that were higly mobile too.
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  3. Mounted archers usually didn't use shields, see the Parts, Huns, Mongols, ecc... Dismounted archers and crossbowmen use shields, but not as an individual protection, but as a collective "mobile fortress" (pavese shield).
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  4. Different armors were made for different tasks. A Roman legionary was a foot soldier required to fight in first line with shield and sword for about a minute first to be replaced by the man behind him and rest for some time. A samurai was a mounted archer that had to seldom fight on foot. A medieval knight was a mounted spearman that had to very rarely fight on foot.
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  5. if you have a polearm aim for the face too. The mask is not a great protection (it seems made to divert the tip of the incoming weapon towards the eyes, mouth and throath).
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  6. dark3031 I said "too" not "only". On the other hand, keep in mind that Samurai are mainly mounted troops. There could be many things ahead of the abdomen (the horse's head, the saddle, the hand that keep the bridle), while the face is exposed.
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