I'd much prefer the thought of their more prominent weapons, their bows, and pole arms would do better work on lacquer and leather.
Anyways, my arguments go towards, "the armor doesn't consist for whipple shields made of singular, hollow, iron pipes, and conveniently perpendicular, 3 or so mm sheets of stainless steel perpendicular to the angle of attack, with a modern metal katana".

So yeah, Estoc seems like a nice two-handed sword, a tapered-triangular sword, and a faithful fallback for pikesmen.
The sword breaker seems pretty neat in that respect, too.


A note to Sothe: It seems you are adding more frames having to do with NGE in your Sig's Gif.

Japanese armour usually didn't consist of any iron at all, unless they were a wealthy Samurai. I assume that stuff in the first bit is Bamboo, and Bamboo is rock solid, slicing through that is probably more impressive than the slicing of the metal tube TBH.

3mm metal sheet is fairly thick for body armour anyhow, that would weigh a ridiculous amount. Look at 3mm on a ruler and you'll get what I mean.

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Seems like medium plate, but what the ♥♥♥♥ do I know.

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Well the first one wasn't bamboo, it's rolled up, probably wetted, tatami mat. I believe they're used for cutting up because they have a resistance similar to human flesh. So yes, he cut through a rough analog for a human arm-tube with no bones, which is entirely possible for a Katana and they actually excel at it (cutting through soft bits, like flesh).

The pipe and sheet, I have doubts that that is steel, but maybe I'm terribly wrong. That pipe seemed to cut quite easily for being steel, but I guess it was kinda thin, and I admit I've never tried to chop through a steel pipe, so I can't compare.
That sheet of metal though, that wasn't nearly as impressive. Wasn't anywhere near 3mm, much closer to 1mm, and once the initial split was made, it would follow it to the bottom pretty easily.

tl;dr: Yeah, a katana can do all that. The metal was purposefully flimsy, but still.

I don't know. I'm pretty conflicted about doing so.
Sure, sharpening it up and getting some steel wool would be great for it, but I don't want to give up any of that collective artifact rust=quality thing, you know?

And a proper european bastard sword could've probably done it just as well.

It showed in the video that it was 0.4mm thick.
I'm actually surprised you all missed that, it was written in hugetext.

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The pipe is definitely steel, it's just something you'd use for low-pressure plumbing projects where copper and PVC aren't viable for some reason or another, pipes like that are generally made from low-carbon steel, softer and more malleable than other steels, makes it easier to work with, in the case of pipes that would be, cutting, threading, bending, and so forth

The sheet is most likely a similarly low-carbon steel, probably the kind of stuff you find on cars that make up much of the external bodywork, just much thinner

Pretty easy stuff to get through for a good high-carbon steel blade of any kind, though I wouldn't wanna do it with any of mine

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