Shadow Skill: Kuruda Annihilation Techniques vs Soulfan Siege Machinery

[Jiang Jin]

In Shadow Skill, the warriors of the City-State of Kuruda who rely only on magical martial arts techniques called the Kuruda Annihilation Techniques, which are hand-to-hand combat techniques that utilize magical powers, is pitted against the Kingdom of Soulfan which uses no magical martial arts techniques because of its lack of Souma, the source of magical powers in the manga, OVA, anime film, and anime, and has to rely entirely on technology which it mass produces in large quantity using animal mills, watermills, windmills, blast furnaces, and oil refineries because of its superior industrial might.

Whose side are you on in this battle?

The Kingdom of Soulfan is armed with armor piercing weapons, armored cavalry, siege machines, incendiary bombs, and oar powered battleships such as:

Armor and Fortification:

Spiked Shield
Chain Mail
Full Plate Armor
Barding
Armored Cavalry
Pavise
Castles

Weapons:

Dagger-Axe
Halberd
Bladed Pole
Long-Handled Saber
Oar Powered Battleship
Ram
Hooks for Pinning Retreating Ships
Molten Iron Incendiary Pot
Shield Armored Ship
Compound Steel Wave Blades
Mace
Flail
Broad Sword
Saber
Pike
Lance
Longbow
Crossbow
Repeating Crossbow
Windlass
Flaming Arrows
Springald
Traction Trebuchet
Springald
Counterweight Trebuchet
Fire Jar
Fire Pot
Fire Stone


Below are images of weapons used by the real empires of Europe during the 1st Industrial Revolution which lasted from 500BCE-1700, when animal mills, watermills, windmills, blast furnaces, and oil refineries were invented:


Below is an image of an armored cavalryman with chain mail and full plate armor:




Below is an image of a crossbowman with chain mail and full plate armor:




Below is an image of a gunner with chain mail, full plate armor, and a protective shield with a slot for firing the gun called a Pavise:




Below is an image of a springald:




Below is an image of an artillery officer, with chain mail and full plate armor, preparing to fire a counterweight trebuchet:




Below is another image of a counterweight trebuchet:




Below is another image of an artillery officer, with chain mail and full plate armor, preparing to fire a counterweight trebuchet, this time loaded with an incendiary bomb called a fire pot:




Below is another image of an artillery officer, with chain mail and full plate armor, preparing to fire a counterweight trebuchet, this time loaded with an incendiary bomb called a fire barrel:




Below is another image of an artillery officer, with chain mail and full plate armor, preparing to fire a counterweight trebuchet, this time loaded with an incendiary bomb called a fire barrel:




Below is an image of an incendiary grenade called a fire jar:




Below is an image of an incendiary bomb called a fire pot:




Below is an image of an incendiary bomb called a fire stone:




Below is an image of a pump operated flame thrower:




Below is an image of a Breech-Loading Swivel Gun:




Below is an image of a battleship, armed with a flamethrower, burning down an enemy ship:




Below is an image of an armored battleship armed with a flamethrower and its decks covered by thick wooden panels, as armor plating to protect the crew and constructed to form a triangular shape in order to make it easier to deflect enemy projectiles:




Below is an image of a warship armed with a mechanism for hurling incendiary bombs called fire barrels:




Below is an image of a Viking Shield Armored Longship:




Below is an image of an Oar Powered Battleship armed with a catapult:




Below is a painting of an English Bomb Vessel, invented in 1347:

[Jiang Jin]

Below is an image of Warwick Castle, designed and built like a modern office block, though the Empires of Eurasia already had apartment and office blocks since ancient times:



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The City-State of Kuruda also has to fight the Kingdom of Kishiluna which is armed with floating armor golems: