What is cooler Ninjas or Samurai?

[BRODIEMAN2k4]

Ninja, Ninja, Rap! Ninja, Ninja, Rap! Ninja, Ninja, Rap!
GO GO GO GO
GO NINJA GO NINJA GO, GO NINJA GO NINJA GO, GO NINJA GO NINJA GO
GO GO GO GO

 

[Kommie]

I voted for all four options
cause a ninja samurai, that has a computer that can run HL2 and notices how the starwars storyline mirrors WW2 could kick EVERYTHINGS ass.

 

[Prince of China]

Ninjas are better than pirates.
Ninjas could sneak into their ship and kill everyone with their stealth skills and throw shuriken.
Or the ninja could just wait and let scurvy do the ninja's job.

 

[ne0_shiny]

or they must commit hara kiri :|

HURK! *twichy eye*

ninjas are so much cooler

 

[Danimal]

It was sad that samurai's were not allowed to make a sound during hara kiri, but I find it funny for what would happen if they did.

"OW!"*Just finishes*

"You made a noise. Do the procedure again!"

 

[dj_flameskull]

they are so much different from the modern suicide bombers. lol.

 

[Darkside55]

They'd all be owned by bears. Bears who shoot laser beams from their eyes. Oh man, that'd so frickin' rock!

Voted ninjas. Some of you seem to be uninformed with who would come out on top in a ninja vs. samurai battle. Let me just inform you all that even in a face-to-face battle, ninja were trained to incapacitate, disarm, and kill samurai. They could do with with the simplest stuff, too...rope, for God's sakes.
Case in point: ninja would use a hook attached to a rope, known as a kagi-nawa. They'd hold a bundle of rope against the attacker's hands as the samurai swung downwards with a sword, strike the samurai in the stomach with the hook (driving it into them), twist the length of rope around the samurai's arm to further incapacitate him, and then move around behind him and strangle him with the rope. Ninja ownage.

In other cases they could fight with a ball and chain, a "fighting hoop" called a kanawa, they could steal a samurai's wakazashi and impale them with it when they were bare-handed, or they could use these big-ass shears to literally lop an opponent's head off. I'm talking pruning shears here, folks. Giant scissors.

Ninja were no joke. They'd flip out and kill a samurai no problem.

 

[Prince of China]

They'd all be owned by bears. Bears who shoot laser beams from their eyes. Oh man, that'd so frickin' rock!

Voted ninjas. Some of you seem to be uninformed with who would come out on top in a ninja vs. samurai battle. Let me just inform you all that even in a face-to-face battle, ninja were trained to incapacitate, disarm, and kill samurai. They could do with with the simplest stuff, too...rope, for God's sakes.
Case in point: ninja would use a hook attached to a rope, known as a kagi-nawa. They'd hold a bundle of rope against the attacker's hands as the samurai swung downwards with a sword, strike the samurai in the stomach with the hook (driving it into them), twist the length of rope around the samurai's arm to further incapacitate him, and then move around behind him and strangle him with the rope. Ninja ownage.

In other cases they could fight with a ball and chain, a "fighting hoop" called a kanawa, they could steal a samurai's wakazashi and impale them with it when they were bare-handed, or they could use these big-ass shears to literally lop an opponent's head off. I'm talking pruning shears here, folks. Giant scissors.

Ninja were no joke. They'd flip out and kill a samurai no problem.

Did you go to that ninja site that Maddox mentioned?
Anyways, do you have a picture of these shears?

 

[Burn]

Samuriais were brilliantly trained masters of combat. Knights were rich lords in armour so heavy only a cannon could hurt them (and they couldn't hit anything properly because of it). They beat people over the head with swords like clubs.

You win the "I dont know anything about Knights" award.

 

[Darkside55]

Did you go to that ninja site that Maddox mentioned?
Anyways, do you have a picture of these shears?

Nope...was the link in this thread? I just checked and I didn't see any posts from Maddox.

As a matter of fact I do have a picture of the shears. It's from one of my books. Tried getting the best scan I could, kinda hard with the spine in the way. Also had to drop the quality so it was under 100kb.

Oh, ninja edit: about knights, there's a photo my friend has where it shows a samurai who is wearing the breastplate of a knight. It's got a big gash from a katana in it...he literally killed the guy and stole it off his dead body, and wore it.

 

[pr0nking]

Ninjas pwn!

 

[Prince of China]

I asked my friends this questions. The majority of them said that samurais would beat ninjas in a fair fight. One of my friends said that samurais had super powerful armour that limited their joints. He said that ninjas could sneak up on a samurai, but their swords would be useless and they could never kill a samurai because of their heavey bamboo/terra-cotta armour.
I am on the side that ninjas can beat samurais. I need some proof and some reasons and other things to help me on this debate.

 

[ne0_shiny]

It was sad that samurai's were not allowed to make a sound during hara kiri, but I find it funny for what would happen if they did.

"OW!"*Just finishes*

"You made a noise. Do the procedure again!"

haha
they probably had a limit to how many times they would have to do it in a row?
or they just keep doing it till they stop making noise :rolling:
what about a weird samurai who made noise every time he experienced pain...hurt world! :bonce:

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

tanks!!!111oenoeneoneleveneighyfiveten

 

[Bad^Hat]

I asked my friends this questions. The majority of them said that samurais would beat ninjas in a fair fight. One of my friends said that samurais had super powerful armour that limited their joints. He said that ninjas could sneak up on a samurai, but their swords would be useless and they could never kill a samurai because of their heavey bamboo/terra-cotta armour.
I am on the side that ninjas can beat samurais. I need some proof and some reasons and other things to help me on this debate.

What's with you and your compulsive need to prove people wrong? Get some new friends FFS.

 

[Prince of China]

What's with you and your compulsive need to prove people wrong? Get some new friends FFS.

No.
I can debate with my friends if I want too. There is nothing wrong with debate. If someone mentions something like this and we get into a debate, we will debate. Simple.
If I want to try and prove them wrong, I will try to.
The last time I checked, I only asked to prove one of them wrong, that's hardly "compulsive".

 

[ButtHoleMcGee]

Ninjas would own the world. If the Samurai's got too close, they would toss a smoke bomb and secretly walk out the back door.

 

[Darkside55]

Prince of China, the ninja-to were hardly "useless," but they were pretty cheap swords. Ninja couldn't afford to make good swords like the samurai, and in addition to that the construction of a ninja-to made it more useful in stabbing than slashing. If you slash too much with a ninja-to it's liable to break.

Which is why nearly all of the time if a ninja killed a samurai he'd take his sword. THAT he could use against the samurai's armor. Also if I'm not mistaken not all samurai had full plates of armor that restricted their movement. I'm not completely sure about that, but I do believe that certain joints were exposed. Some evidence for this is that the hand-to-hand combat ninjas practiced was used to roll around an enemy's attack and strike their joints. As in, if an enemy punched at them or swung at them with a sword, they'd not only dodge the hit but strike in a vital spot like the armpit. That leads me to believe that samurai probably had certain gaps in their armor that ninja learned to exploit.

Samurai have lost to ninja in "fair" fights. Likewise, ninja have been killed by samurai. It's important to note though that ninjas actually weren't used so much for killing as people think...they were more like spies and informants, rather than assassins. They COULD kill, if they were so inclined to flip out and do so, but most of the time they'd rather skulk by and go unnoticed by samurai than to fight them.

 

[Prince of China]

Thanks for the information.
:cheers:

 

[Laivasse]

As well as being hard-as-nails masters of swordplay, Samurai often seem to have been bullying arrogant murderous thugs a lot of the time. This makes them less cool in my eyes. At least ninjas weren't pretentious - they didn't fanny around trying to pretend they were cultured, they just stuck being tools of stealth and death, which is what they were good at.

So ninjas pwn. Samurai were also cool, but often somewhat evil and petty, again like medieval European knights in some ways.

And ninja just had so much more inventive and cool weaponry....like that sickle and chain thing which looks like viciousness incarnate. Have you got the name of that one, Darkside?

 

[lordoftheroot]

Well thanks to this poll we now know that in a battle between a Ninja and a Samurai. The ninja will win handedly even without calling in his pirate friends on flaming sharks. (http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/mockingbird.php)

But the race between Starwars and the question of running HL2 are still neck and neck but i hope we have a diffenitive winner or i dont know how i will sleep at night.

 

[Prince of China]

As well as being hard-as-nails masters of swordplay, Samurai often seem to have been bullying arrogant murderous thugs a lot of the time. This makes them less cool in my eyes. At least ninjas weren't pretentious - they didn't fanny around trying to pretend they were cultured, they just stuck being tools of stealth and death, which is what they were good at.

So ninjas pwn. Samurai were also cool, but often somewhat evil and petty, again like medieval European knights in some ways.

And ninja just had so much more inventive and cool weaponry....like that sickle and chain thing which looks like viciousness incarnate. Have you got the name of that one, Darkside?

I think Darkside55 said that they were known as kagi-nawa.
But I'm not quite sure about the chain. I've seen one.
The sickle they used were called kamas.