User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/New settings poll!/@comment-122.107.102.227-20120325000523/@comment-3524429-20120325013712

I doubt a samurai would be an efficient assassin with all that armor. A ninja would work much better, but they were assassins hired by the samurai to take out other samurai. Also, they were extremely secretive, not even attempting to venture out into public.