What did a Samurai Battlefield Look Like?

As the Otomo intro says when using Tanegashima: 'weapons that kill without honour, but bring victory. Victory, however, brings honour...'

Nobunaga: "so anyway I started blasting"

Real samurai battles involve the mandatory screaming of the name of one's sword technique followed by the sudden appearance of Kanji characters in mid-air and accentuated by the copious squirting of pressurized blood.

“My lord, a glorious victory will soon be your’s!”

I think one of the most brutal (and definitely not-honorable) aspects of samurai warfare was the follow-up of the battle when the defeated were hunted down and massacred for their heads or equipment, something that lasted for days and even weeks. That must been just a terrifying experience to go through.

Suicide by "Jumping from horse at full gallup with sword between your teeth" is about the craziest and most badass thing I can think of.

War is everything but glorious and that "smell of victory" is shit from corpses

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"Treachery! The enemy army has meant to ambush us!"

We should remember that samurai commanders usually knew Sun Tzu´s Art of War very well. The Art of War also says that "All Warfare is based on deception". I think it could be an interesting idea to make an episode between Sun Tzu´s Art of War and Samurai warfare since educated Japanese people knew the Art of War since 7th century.

There is a lot of reasons Oda Nobunaga can make a good antagonist in a semi-fictional story. He is a man ruthlessly crushing independent temples and rivals when he needs to.

Yea video on ranks within the samurai/ashigaru classes,

Living in Japan we visit battlefields and they continue to have a very eerie feeling! If I take photos at night with a flash ‘kodama’ spheres as they are sometimes known are everywhere moving to different positions if I shoot really rapidly! Great channel and info…Thanks…ありがとうございました！

In The Revenge of the Sith , Obi wan had to resort to a gun to defeat General Griveous. That means that Jedi knights are willing to use weapons other than their light sabers to achieve their goals.

15:00 not to mention that his irl inspiration was the head of an artillery school and only charged after they ran out of ammo lol

Duels probably happened during the skirmishing part of the battle, which can last quite a while before either army commits to a fight.

What an incredible experience these battles must have been. The fearlessness of historical warriors never ceases to amaze me.

Basically every warrior across history outside beginning of record history were practical and not stupid and fought to win even knights and Samurai.

The point when the bloody meat grinder starts is when the honor duels happen. After the initial clash people are tired and trying to recover wounded and get back in formation and as it starts to get dark honor duels between individuals are much more practical and likely.

I think a ,,relatively" close depiction of warfare came in Battlefield 1. It's not the most historically accurate WW1 game out there, but it does a very good job at showing what a battlefield might have looked like: destroyed homes and mud everywhere, fear you can feel from the computer yourself, sometimes rage as you charge forward, maybe even a pride and sense of mission as you heal your teammates or try to bravely take down a tank - and once you see an enemy, it's all just a massive hunger game for survival, but in fancy (but bloody and unwashed) suits - everyone killing everyone else, with everything and every trick they have up their sleeve (even as much as drowning an enemy soldier in a puddle - that last one is a scene from All Quiet on Wesrern Front, actually. One thing this movie got right). I imagine Samurai warfare might have looked similarly - but with diffrent technology and weapons.