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Shhhhh...don't remember the perversion of the thread.

Spartans all the way

OT: I'd go with Samurai would own all, even ninjas

VIKINGS>PIRATES>SAMURAI<NINJAS>SPARTANS.

Its natural order.

Platuan4th wrote:Thanks for failing at realizing that a movie based on a comic wouldn't resemble history.

Having never heard of the comic before the movie came out, and having previously studied that engagement because I loved Greek mythology and history. I sure that it is understandable that my view of the movie would be very jaded.

The US Navy has shown that pirates aren't up to speed.

I'd put Spartans and Samurai on an even playing field, if both have iron weapons and armor. Thats key though.

Frazzled wrote:The US Navy has shown that pirates aren't up to speed.

Their accuracy improves without the eye patch and the rum induced hangover. Still accurate not up to speed is still not up to speed.

Frazzled wrote:I'd put Spartans and Samurai on an even playing field, if both have iron weapons and armor. Thats key though.

Spartans have bronze and linen armour and bronze weapons, Samurai have wooden armour and steel swords (IIRC).

The European Medieval Knight owns them both!

Samurai are over rated.

A medieval knight in full armor would probably beat a samurai. A samurai who actually had experience with that level of armor would pretty much make it a draw.

A ninja is scary, but the Inverse Ninja Law makes 1,000 ninjas easy to beat.

How about Mamelukes?

I'd like to see Samurai stand up to a charge from Heavy Horse. That'd be good for a laugh!

I was talking about the pirates of old, not modern pirates.

A guy who sets his own beard on fire is pretty fething scary in my books.

Ah yes, Old Pirates still have Mojo.

We'd have to define knights and samurai of what period, as knight armor evolved from early mail (thanes) to full plate that would make a samurai freak out (at least until he unloaded a matchlock into it Go Go Team Gunpowder!). As noted Spartans would have to have similar armor to be comparable.

Mamelukes would be bad mambos indeed IIRC.

Of course all are pwoned by the peasant with said matchlock! BOOM!

The romans were pwnd by guys who would get frenzied, tear off all of their clothes, and charge the enemy.

All fear crazy naked guys.

Frazzled wrote:We'd have to define knights and samurai of what period, as knight armor evolved from early mail (thanes) to full plate that would make a samurai freak out (at least until he unloaded a matchlock into it Go Go Team Gunpowder!).

I'd say the point that the two cultures met would be the starting point, so post-Crusades full plate european knight vs. Samurai sans firearm. That's the best chance the Samurai has (none) and it's down hill from there all the way to the atomic bomb.

Don't sound hopeless, remember Cinco De Mayo?

That's not the day of mexican independence, its the day a group of villagers armed with pitchforks fended off the french army.

The samurai could have a chance.

halonachos wrote:The romans were pwnd by guys who would get frenzied, tear off all of their clothes, and charge the enemy.

All fear crazy naked guys.

Whenever you say a naked guy running down the street, you start running too. You may not know what it is, but if it makes a naked guy run away, its gonna be BAD

George Spiggott wrote:

Frazzled wrote:We'd have to define knights and samurai of what period, as knight armor evolved from early mail (thanes) to full plate that would make a samurai freak out (at least until he unloaded a matchlock into it Go Go Team Gunpowder!).

I'd say the point that the two cultures met would be the starting point, so post-Crusades full plate european knight vs. Samurai sans firearm. That's the best chance the Samurai has (none) and it's down hill from there all the way to the atomic bomb.

How does that work with Spartan Hoplites? They never met either of them.

Well, I would be more afraid of a naked guy running AT me, strict drills and training have nothing on a naked white guy running headlong into you.

Well in that case I'd probably be more afraid of African bushmen.

That stereotype is NOT true I tell you, not true!

stonefox wrote:Well in that case I'd probably be more afraid of African bushmen.

QFT

Any ancient culture that can manage to last well into modern times has my vote.

How long did Spartans and Vikings manage to last? Exactly.

Out of the two, though, I'd have to say Spartans. The Vikings were not born and bred to kill. The Spartans were.

The vikings still exist, they hide in the fjords of Norway and are not related to the vikings in minnesota.

Reminds me of a joke, Why do the vikings play under a dome?

Spartans shout and kick people into holes.

Nofasse 'Eadhunta wrote:Spartans shout and kick people into holes.

And rub oil on themselves until there abs glisten.


I voted Viking. It was the art of the Blood Eagle that broke the tie.


GG

To prove their manhood, real spartans had to find and strangle a man with their bare hands. They spit on your Blood Eagle pthooy!

To prove their manhood, real vikings had to strangle themselves with their bare hands. This is incredibly difficult as vikings would punch the strangler in the face until the strangler gave up.

Isn't this a TV show?

THE FOURTH WALL, YOU BROKE THE FOURTH WALL!!!!!!

well according to spike deadliest warrior (the best show ever)
samurai beats viking
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Hmm Vikings FTW.
You'd need to know your history for this one... At the battle of Stamford Bridge, a lone Viking held off a Saxon army for several hours. He stood in the middle of the only bridge on a river that separated the 2 armies and took on all comers.
The sneaky Saxons got him in the end by sending someone out in a boat, and spearing him in his errr manhood O.o

Though in truth you'd have to call it a draw in the hard case debate, as they both were products of their time

Vikings are the reason for the phrase "paying through the nose" (they used to chop off your nose if you wouldn't pay protection. "Airgid srón"), but spartans have generated an pronoun. Hmmmm.

I dunno. I like Norse Myth better than Greek Myth. And I'm from a Viking fortified town area of Ireland. So I say Vikings.

Vikings all the way! Got the blood in me...

Plus I find that saga's are an amazing and inspiring read.