User blog comment:El Alamein/Landsknecht vs. Samurai/@comment-5232784-20120729193933

Pikemen like the Landsknecht where the bane of Knights and other cavalry. You give me five Pikemen against five knights, and I bet top $ that the Pikemen will win.

Samurai, despite their depiction on the Deadliest Warrior Show, where mounted warriors: they could fight well on the ground, however they where most often on horseback during a fight.

Therefore it would seem most likely that a Samurai Charge, which consisted of men wearing bamboo armor (though probably would hav had other materials on, their armor, if memory serves me right, was almost if not entirely Bamboo) would be repelled by a firm landsknecht Line, and followed by savage ground hand-to-hand fighting. On this the Landsknecht would have the advantage, due to not shaking their heads and feeling their bruises from falling off wounded, dead or dying horses, would therefore have their full senses available for the ground assault. Also, with a Samurai fatality or two likely incurred from a failed cavalry charge against a Landsknecht pike formation, the Samurais would be outnumbered. Plus, being mounted warriors, they would not have had as much experience fighting on the ground as the Landsknecht would have, despite being formidale opponents off and on horseback.

My Vote: LANDSKNECHT!