User blog comment:Thornclaw Braveheart/Miyamoto Musashi vs. Pier Gerlofs Donia/@comment-2006360-20110801133004/@comment-207.98.179.191-20120413163716

First, this should be entitled "who is deadlier," comparative, not superlative. Shame, shame if you are a native English speaker. Second, no bushi entered the battlefield wearing bogu (armor) and carrying a jo or bokuto. Did European soldiers go to battle armed with blunts? Third, your weapons are all wrong. The linstock is entirely unsuitable for battlefield use. By the way, so are the katana and wakizashi, that are civilian weapons. Should be dai-sho (daito; shoto), swords that were designed for the reality of striking through the weak points of armor. And why Musashi? He was Japan's equivalent of a gunslinger, and though he participated (on the losing slide under Ukita) in the Sekigahara Campaign, all his battles were before he began his kenjutsu training. Better choices would be Nitta Yoshisada or Minamoto Hachiman Taro Yoshiie, though in the case of the latter, weapons would need to be changed to reflect the weapons of the twelfth century. (As you may suspect, I am familiar with these topics, having begun training in kenjutsu over four decades ago.)