Talk:Master Yi/SkinsTrivia/@comment-78.72.238.40-20110721205831/@comment-24.68.105.129-20111028025146

Except pikes are not weapons used on horsebacks, being twenty feet long spears and hence unwieldy. I think you mean lances.

Also, only an idiot would call the Japanese Yumi a "heavy archer", the Japanese Yumi is among the weakest of bows despite its size, and its very weakness is a major reason on why the samurai were so keen on adopting arqubuses.

Horses likewise were reletively rare and expensive, and the large scale utilisation of horses could only be afforded by few clans, notably the Takeda and other clans in the Kanto plains. Most samurai hence fought on foot out of nessecity and because the general geography of Japan (hills and forests) were mostly suitable to infantry combat.

While it is true the Katana wasn't as prominent as some claim, only a revisionist would think it was a ceremonial weapon. That would be the Wakizashi, which was still used in combat as a secondary weapon when the katana was too unwieldy.

If you are going to complain about something, do it right.