Katanas of the Rising Sun: Difference between revisions

* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: The IJN officers had cheap, mass-produced katana that were used for torture and executions rather then fighting. Of course, fervent about the samurai spirit they did use these for combat but few if any were trained in their proper combat use, and often broke or chipped their swords.

** Indeed, the Katanas also caused said officers to have a [[Highly-Conspicuous Uniform]] on the battlefield, and they often found themselves drawing fire from the American troops as a result.

* [[Last Stand]]: Banzai charges, which can be summed up as "there's no question that we're gonna die here, so let's [[Badass|do it awesomely]] [[Taking You with Me|and take down as many of them as we can too.]]"

** As a practical matter, however, they were silliness of the first order; a massed assault was WWI stuff (and the sort of propagandized insanity that got people worked up to them belonged to wars hundreds of years older than that), and artillery and the machine gun had grown both more numerous and deadlier since their days of breaking such assaults on the Somme. The results were... [[Kill'Em All|predictable]], and the Japanese would have been better served by staying on the defensive.