User blog comment:Kazanshin/Barbarians made Kings: Aterui vs Fritigern/@comment-17814994-20190701114817/@comment-27358240-20190704104509

I talked about your vote with Tybalt and after some consideration, I decided to make your vote count as half for a few mistakes in your reasoning:

1. The Emishi aren't using any damn Yumis goddamnit. Their bows are completely different from those of the Wajinm I outright said that in my description of their bows "Ebisu Yumi refers to all bows used by non-Wajin people of Japan". They're either using self bows or composite bows, and the nobles would be especially likely to use the latter via their superior wealth. Next, Yumis can easily reach draw weights of above 100lbs. There's absolutely no reasons to believe such a massive laminated bow would have any less draw wight than say an English Longbow.

2. Tedate shields are no smaller than thureos shields used by the Germans.



This is no smaller than any shields used in Europe. I'm probably no professional, but I have French origins and reasearch a lot about Gallic warfare tactics and equipment, I know wat a Germano-Celtic shield looks like.

3. The better swords of the infantry will very likely play an extremely small role in the battle considering the fact tat they were only wielded by the wealthiest of warriors (swords were a sign of nobility or status). The main weapons will be by very far the spear.

I've got nothing against you supporting Fritigern, I came here expecting at least someone to do so. However, these tree points (or at least the two former ones) are really glaring mistakes here, so I'll need you to correct them. Once that's done I'll gladly give your vote full value.