User blog comment:El Alamein/Landsknecht vs. Samurai/@comment-181289-20120730025905

I Vote for the Landsknecht, While I see them as pretty evenly matched in terms of weapons, where the Landsknecht win this is armor. There armor is much more resistant to the Samurai's weapons than the Samurai's armor is the the Landsknecht's weapons. For one in terms of swrods the predominanitly slashing swords will not work well aginst the munition half-armor, where as the large chopping swords of the Landsknecht's will at least end blunt force trauma into the Samurai's body.

Also the Landsknecht come from an enviroment where they have been fighting aginst blockpowder weapons and trying to fiqure out how to get around/threw the armor of there enemies, where as fire arms are farily new to Japan when the Samurai started using them, so they've had less time to devlop the best tatics to use firearms.