Do y’all remember that show “Deadliest Warrior” where they would use “science” (read: an excel spreadsheet) to determine which of two kinds of historical soldier was best? It was fake AF but it was super fun to watch. I loved the little fights they put at the end of each episode.
Also OP, to answer your question, it depends on the circumstances. 1v1 it’s probably the samurai since they lived into the early industrial age and therefore had access to way better armour and weapons (and also nutrition) than the bronze age Spartans. But if it’s a 30v30 formation battle, the Spartans probably take it because spear and shield tactics are OP as heck.
Yeah I loved how they got a trauma surgeon to come look at the ballistics gel dummy and be like “yeah he fuckin dead” after they like sliced a gnarly chunk out of the face or something haha.
Yeah Spartans were all about the phalanx, whereas samurai would often train and fight 1v1 even on the battlefield in my understanding. I would agree with your assessment.
There was an Xbox arcade game of it and it was super unbalanced. The spartan and the native American both had a weapon you could throw that would be a one shot kill but was super rng. We used to just spam it at the start of the fight and restart it no one died.
Do y’all remember that show “Deadliest Warrior” where they would use “science” (read: an excel spreadsheet) to determine which of two kinds of historical soldier was best? It was fake AF but it was super fun to watch. I loved the little fights they put at the end of each episode.
Also OP, to answer your question, it depends on the circumstances. 1v1 it’s probably the samurai since they lived into the early industrial age and therefore had access to way better armour and weapons (and also nutrition) than the bronze age Spartans. But if it’s a 30v30 formation battle, the Spartans probably take it because spear and shield tactics are OP as heck.
Shit, you’ve just unlocked the deepest memories of those guys cutting down ballistic gel mannequins and shit.
Weird. I’d forgotten that existed.
Yeah I loved how they got a trauma surgeon to come look at the ballistics gel dummy and be like “yeah he fuckin dead” after they like sliced a gnarly chunk out of the face or something haha.
Deadliest Warrior fuckin ruled. It was the source of a lot of memes between me and a friend.
Yeah Spartans were all about the phalanx, whereas samurai would often train and fight 1v1 even on the battlefield in my understanding. I would agree with your assessment.
There was an Xbox arcade game of it and it was super unbalanced. The spartan and the native American both had a weapon you could throw that would be a one shot kill but was super rng. We used to just spam it at the start of the fight and restart it no one died.
Sounds like Oddjob in Goldeneye