Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 02:57:21 -0600      
  From: st_gulik@hotmail.com 

Comments: Oh, another little note, on the armor bit, heavy armor
started falling out of style with the inception of the long bow.
That's why the Samurai wore what they wore and not big heavy metal
tanks. (They new a long bow shot would skewer them either way so why
not wear a weave armor which is lighter and turns sword blows just as
well as metal).  Same in Europe.  The French tasted this gruesome fact
twice against the English long bow.  Once at Crecy and once at
Agincourt.

In Humble Service,

Ben W.
Email: st_gulik@hotmail.com