Deadliest Warrior (Season 1, Episode 3) Discussion - Spartan vs. Ninja

[bugrimmar]

Kasz216 said:

bugrimmar said:

yup, if a ninja had the "real conditions fight" on his side, it would be easy to just hide and kill from cover.

i guess they just wanted the show attract more viewers with that ballista (like "zomg, a huge thingymagiggy!").

but either way, atilla would've won because of horse archery. nothing that the greeks had could possibly prepare them for that. the huns destroyed most of europe with just that tactic alone.

Actually, Alexander the Great defeated the Scythians on more then one occasion who were horse archers.

For example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jaxartes#Disposition_of_the_Armies

 

 

Still, I know in Mount and Blade I often joined up with the Khergitt soley because I hated figthing their horse archers.

then again, there were several factors in that battle like the river and that i doubt the scythians were anywhere nearly as good as the huns were in archery. i don't know what bow they used either, but if they had something like the hun bow, it would've been a different story as well.

still, in a 1 on 1 duel, it's impossible for 1 greek to beat 1 horse archer. in a war between armies, possibly.