I think it might have to do with your words choice. You use term like hacking, which to me suggest a lot of brute force. You also mention a lot of forcefully cutting through armour, which again would require more brute force then anything. If he was aiming for weak spots in the armour you didn't really make that clear, at least for me.
We also need higher quality weapons than the sort of sword typically used by the Empire's common soldiers. Ditto for defenses.
It's a repeat of Latin American story (IDK if @ImmortalsBlade did it on purpose or wha, but if so, kudos) what grinded down the numbers of the natives weren't the spanish conquerors (they did play a part) but it was mostly the diseases they brought from over seas that the people over here had absolutely no defense to.
There's also the possibility that the Empire or even the Yiga spread the disease delibrately in order to weaken Hyrule.
We were using Link's spin attack a lot and the golems are basically the cannon fodder enemy that dies in one hit.
We did not and we do not.
It did penetrate.
You ditched the horses last update and whatever supplies you carried with you got soaked with swamp water.
I explicitly wrote it tore through the chain.
Actually partly a reference to the Cholera pandemics and the sanitary movement. Was tempted to have a character named John Snow show up.
Unless we raid imperial supplies our food situation looks pretty bleak.
We have nothing to do first aid with; we're soaked in swamp water.
Zora prefer to eat their food raw. Occasionally when it's still alive.
Oh.
Oh and Zelda will be totally ok with seeing us injured?
Hmm... just got out of probably her very first fight against other senitents.
