Honda Tadakatsu/Disregarded Battles

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Battle vs. Pier Gerlofs Donia (by SPARTAN 119)
Pier Gerlofs Donia:

Honda Tadakatsu:

Pier Gerlofs Donia and four Frisian Rebels walk out of a forest an into an open field. On the other side, Honda Tadakatsu and four samurai walk into the clearing. One of the samurai see the Frisians as a threat and opens fire with this Tanegashima musket, killing a Frisian with a shot the chest.

A Frisian with an arquebus returns fire, killing one of the Tadakatsu's samurai. After the opening musket shots, Honda Tadakatsu leads a charge towards Pier's men, his spear, Tonbo-giri' in hand.

Tadakatsu strikes first, impaling one of the Frisians on his spear. Seconds later, a man to Tadakatsu's right is impaled on a pike. Tadakatsu's trys to thrust tonbo-giri at Pier, but spear's head is slice off by Pier's zweihander. Pier then turns his attention to a samurai who charged at him, katana in hand. Pier easily severs his attacker's head with his massive blade.

Tadakatsu blocks a strike from a Frisian rebel's longsword and retaliates with a slash of his katana, which is also blocked. The two duel for several seconds, until Tadakatsu finds and opening and thrusts his katana into the man's unarmored neck. .

The last surviving samurai apart from Tadakatsu takes a swing a Pier with his naginata, missing him by inches. The second naginata strike knocks Pier's zweihander out of his hand. Pier draws the giant meat cleaver-like weapon he uses as a secondary weapon and chopped off the head of the naginata. He then raised the "cleaver" and brought it down on the samurai's head, splitting his skull. . Pier then retrieved his zweihander. As he turned to face Tadakatsu, he saw his last soldier fall to Tadakatsu's katana.

Pier charged in a furious rage and took a wide horizontal slice with his massive seven-foot zweihander. Tadakatsu only barely blocked the blow, and tried to strike back, but couldn't get in range of Pier, thwarted by Pier's massive blade. Pier swung again. This time, the strike hit Tadakatsu's armor. It wasn't pierced, but Tadakatsu was knocked down. Pier Gerlofs Donia stood over Tadakatsu and thrust his sword down into him. Pier then raised his sword in triumph.

Winner: Pier Gerlofs Donia

Expert's Opinion
The experts noted Pier's superior strength and massive size, allowing him to hit harder and carry large, hard-hitting weapons, and that Pier had faced better trained opponents before (the Black Band) and come out victorious.

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