User blog comment:Pygmy Hippo 2/Oliver Cromwell vs. Takeda Shingen/@comment-27358240-20190408010528/@comment-35680048-20190408015018

Not here to change your mind or anything but i'd just like to espouse my heresy even further :)

"First off, you guys are blindly assuming the nodachi is going to be some kind of slow mace or hammer-like weapon."

None of us ever assumed the nodachi is some sort of mace. But it stands to reason that it will most likely be slower than the Mortuary, which is overall the lighter blade. There's a difference between me saying it's just slow in general and  saying it's slower than a blade that's almost 2 lbs lighter than it.We also do know there is technique to using the nodachi aka Jigen-Ryu ( You've talked about it several times). Though if I remember correctly, Jigen-Ryu was a late 16th century thing. It was developed by  Tōgō Chūi a.k.a Tōgō Shigetaka who lived from 1561–1643. Takeda died in 1573, I doubt Chūi/Shigetaka made this style when he was twelve nor do I think if he did it would be widespread enough for Takeda to heavily adopt it.

Spears and Muskets are also fine because those are pretty obvious, and there isn't much to really argue about.

And on to the special weapons. I can see your point with the Yumi, I was in your camp too. I'd just like to say that Cromwell isn't using wheelock pisols, these are essentially the protoype flintlocks of Cromwell's day. And I'd like to also address this:

"Also, I very much doubt anybody would have given the edge to the pistol if Shingen's weapon was named "English Longbow" instead of "Yumi". Eh, that's how it is I guess."

Absolutely not. As Laqy pointed out"There's a reason why the Europeans had phased out archery by Cromwell's time." This includes the longbow, which would suffer from the same problem as the Yumi. And longbows were especially hard to draw back, and going at maximum speed would tire  out even the strongest of soldiers. The Yumi in my opinion would fare better than that longbow

That's all i'm gonna argue for, i'm not going to try to argue about the men themselves, as i'm not overally knowledgeable about either of them, so that'll be up to others to argue if they so please.