Colored Odoshi Armors

[IceBurner]

Just a bit of trivia for anyone interested. The colored Odoshi armors don't have some cryptic esoteric Japanese meaning to their name: they're the historic names of pieces of Japanese samurai armor.

Odoshi is the name of the armor's patterned lacing itself, so "Blue Odoshi X" would mean the lacing of the armor was blue.

"Do" was the breast & backplate of the armor. Japanese "Do" were typed by how the segments opened up in order to be worn: essentially how and where they were hinged.

"Do maru" was a single piece breast & backplate that wrapped around the left side and overlapped under the right arm. Do maru's opening had no hinges and was tied along the right side.

"Nimai do" was a two piece breast and backplate that had a hinged seam under the left arm. The two pieces overlaped and were tied togther under the right arm.

So the <color> Odoshi Domaru were one color and the Do was one wraparound piece.

The <color> Odoshi <color> Nimaidou had a Do that was a different color from the rest of the armor, plus the breast & back plates were separate and hinged on the left side.

This information is courtesy of http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/katchu/katchu.html

[Hrith]

Conclusion: ST sucks for not making Ep4 armours visible.

[Tycho]

Yes. Also, the armors boost battle speed because unlike medieval Western armors, they were so light it was still easy to move in them.
The Kusanagi set were handed down to the Japanese imperial family by the sun god Amaterasu, from which they descended. I think the mirror shield still exists somewhere, but they had it removed from the imperial palace for some reason.
Tanegashima (the rifles) were used in the late 19th century. They were imported ofcourse, but the Japanese were the first to use them in a new strategy way; have several groups of people use them, while having only one group shoot at a time, so that in the time one group was trying to reload their guns, they would still be covered by the other groups.
Decalog is fairly obvious considering its meaning. :p




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[IceBurner]

The speed boost is attibutable to either the "legendary" powers of samurai/ninja or just to make the item better.

Japanese and Western armors were very comparable in make, just not style and function (resist slash vs resist stab). In fact, a real antique full suit of Western plate armor with weapons and a shield weighs in at around 60 lbs and isn't anywhere near as difficult to move around in as Hollywood would have us believe. Like samurai, knights were able to climb ladders and perform other typical feats of agility.

To contrast, modern US Marines carry over 60 lbs of gear pre-assault and around 45 when able to prepare for engagements. Wold War II gear was so heavy (roughly 200lbs), many Marines could barley stand straight with it all on.

In PSO, of course, warriors typically carry 10 pounds of combat equipment (being made of ultra-light metals and plastics with laser blades/shields) and 100 pounds of mates/fluids.



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[Dana]

On 2005-10-27 19:13, Kef wrote:
Conclusion: ST sucks for not making Ep4 armours visible.


Hell yeah!