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Re: Ninja Weaponry
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lugnet.castle.ninja
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Mon, 18 Jun 2001 23:57:17 GMT
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In lugnet.castle.ninja, Sun Yun writes:
> I was wondering what kind of advanced weaponry medieval Japanese armies used
> back in the day.
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> By advanced weaponry, I'm refering to large seige weapons such as trebuchets
> and catapults etc etc. I suppose they don't have to be land based either.
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> There are a couple of seige weapons in the Ninja theme but I'm wondering if
> they're even accurate. I don't remember seeing stuff like that before. I
> watched Akira Kurosawa's "Ran" last year and can't remember any large weaponry.
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> So anyways, if you know of any good links or can provide any good
> information that would be great. A site with pictures would be especially
> helpful.
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> I'm only asking all this because there's a medieval brikwars game coming up
> and I feel like my army is looking a little sad with just foot soldiers and
> cavalry.
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> sun
Hi Sun,
They didn't. The Japanese rarly got into proper seige situations, it wasn't
considered honorable to hide in your castle. Few serious seigd weapons were
used, or at least, were recorded as having been used.
If there was a siege it was basically a waiting game, the defenders rarely
did well beacuse the castle would be surrounded and it would get nearly no
supplies except for water. (most castles were build over springs)
I have a few books on the subject and I will look into it for you. You could
always just punt and invent something cool!
GREG~
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