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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storyteller01" data-source="post: 2744725" data-attributes="member: 20931">Last rebuttal and I'll stop. Getting off track and all. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Agreed, but warfare/killing tends to be the top motivation for advancement of all kinds. Look to tactics used at Himagi Castle (butchered spelling). Trees that do not burn (or don't burn easily); grasses that when wet become slick, forcing enemy troops into a kill zone. Blood from arrow wounds makes for a great lubricant <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. Hidden entrances and floors. It still stands because of a change in tactics: they covered the castle with black fabric when bombers approached during WWII. While culture and tradition may have stunted advancement, I don't believe that a definite advantage would have been ignored unless there was an overriding penalty. As you've said, we have no way of knowing with the resources of this site.Based my original comment more on experience. Can't say much against this.This condusive conditions were relative to each other. One includes fighting on frozen ground while dealing with frostbite and other conditions. Japan dealt with this as well as wet conditions (trench foot, disease in water or water based insects, etc).  I'd wager this is due to Japan's significantly reduced land mass, by comparison. A volcanic chain will be nearly all mountain. But if I remember correctly (I could be wrong here, apparently the norm <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) the Japanese had combat sites were largely within reach of the various factions by virtue of the country's size. As you mentioned, Europe had vastly more area. That meant crossing larger areas to reach battle areas, quite possibly during inhospitable winter seasons. Maybe I'm wrong, but this is what I've observed/read/theorized. There is agreement on this, including a cultural anthropolgist whose focus has been on the evolution of weapons and combat technologies (currently going for his masters degree). I can't be completely off-base.Happy gaming. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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