The katana is a great sword. Until you add armor into the mix. It's biggest strength is its slashing power, which you do not want to do against armor. European chain mail is good enough to stop an average swing and plate armor will always stop a slash, 100% of the time. And it doesn't have enough weight to do much blunt damage
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To be fair, it wasn't built to fight chain or fullplate. Neither was a longsword. For something like that, either a piercing weapon (spear) or blunt weapon (mace/kanabo) would be the choice weapon. Samurai techniques assumed an enemy had single-form armor, with exposed soft points, since that was how their armor was built.
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fück that,Its Morning Star or Nothing.
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Ever tried a Kanabo? It's damned fine...
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Oh hell yeah. Swinging one of those just feels badass.