User blog comment:Affectos/Hugh de Paynes vs. Oda Nobunaga/@comment-181289-20120810232655

Hugh de Paynes takes this in my opinion, largly do to his mail armor wil be largly resistant to a number of Nobunaga weapons, the Katana and Yari, will not work extremly well against mail armor. The Katana itself does not preform well against "hard" armors becasue of it's largly slashing based, it can stab, and I've seen a few argument for it actully out preforming a broad sword in I think R. Lee Emery's Lock and Loaded, but that sitution I strongly believe was set up to show a katana in a postive light and the "super" sword modern culture has presented it to be. I've seen other test, that are not motivated by telivision ratings, that show that nither sword would actully work well against a steel cuirass.

The Long range and speacil weapons are farily even, but even in those categorys I'd give the edge to Paynes. Early firearms main advantages are shared with the cross-bow, not needing highly trained soldiers to use it being a bif one. But the cross bow is quicker to reload so you can but more bolts in the air than you can ball shot. The real advantage of guns is the mental affect they had when fired in large numbers.