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Deadliest Warriors
« on: April 21, 2009, 05:30:07 PM »
Spike Tv. is running a series pitting warriors from different times in history from all parts of the world.

Anyone seen it?
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Re: Deadliest Warriors
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2009, 06:22:47 PM »
No but I will. Thanks for the heads up.

My .02 cents is for the Vikings.

Wanna know why the Roman Army's northern influence stopped in Britannia?
Those BIG damn crazy Vikings! Made the "little" Romans kinda like,,....this is North enough.... ::)

PLUS,

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Re: Deadliest Warriors
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2009, 07:21:01 PM »
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Re: Deadliest Warriors
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2009, 07:51:07 PM »
Girls, the Romans were stopped in Britain by the Celts and the Picts. The Romans were about 400 years too early for the Vikings, Johnnie come latelys that they were.

Go Celts!!!
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Re: Deadliest Warriors
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2009, 08:15:45 PM »
the specific timelines are the "gray area", the Vikings, with much bravado, raped and pillaged much of what is now Wales, Ireland and Scotland, Spain, France, and other areas they saw a chance.

http://viking.hgo.se/Timetable/Chrono.html

Than discovered a "island hopping" path to what is now Newfoundland, hundreds of years before "what history" mistaught us.

Thanks Haz. That was awesome.



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Re: Deadliest Warriors
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Re: Deadliest Warriors
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2009, 08:31:20 PM »
TW, you forgot Russia too. Rus, land of the red-haired men, or Vikings. Made it all the way to Constantinople too, set up huge trade networks.

However, the Vikings - who did all you said - came well after the Romans, no gray area here. The Saxons and Angles came to Britain long before the Norsemen, right about the time the Romans left.

Harold Godwinson successfully repelled a Viking incursion led by Harold Hardrada just before trundling down to a little hamlet called Hastings, only to get his ass handed to him by William the Bastard. That was 1066AD - 600 years after the Roman candles were extinguished.
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Re: Deadliest Warriors
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2009, 09:12:42 PM »

However, the Vikings - who did all you said - came well after the Romans, no gray area here.

I stand corrected, it was too damn cold up there anyway,...

I wonder what it was like to go through life with a name like William The Bastard..... ???

I also think Charlemagne came around before 1066AD, and kinda redirected Viking incursions in mainland Europe, or made what much later became known as a Mexican Standoff...

I'll have to pull some old books down off the shelf to refresh my brain, I really love history, but my "gray matter" is my biggest enemy sometimes.

Probably caused by Global Warming. :P

I would have thought Samurai or Archers from Genghis Khan would be thrown in.....How about the,......wait for it,.....

SPARTANS!

A Spartan does not ask how many of the enemy there are,...
But where they are..

"So much the better, we shall fight in the shade."
Dienekes, a Spartan soldier, was informed that Persian arrows blotted out the sun,
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Re: Deadliest Warriors
« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2009, 09:20:09 PM »
Charlemagne  Was in 800 AD
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Re: Deadliest Warriors
« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2009, 10:32:37 PM »
Quote from: twyacht on April 21, 2009, 06:22:47 PM
No but I will. Thanks for the heads up.

My .02 cents is for the Vikings.

Wanna know why the Roman Army's northern influence stopped in Britannia?
Those BIG damn crazy Vikings! Made the "little" Romans kinda like,,....this is North enough.... ::)

PLUS,

 8)

Vikings lost to the Samurai on the show. I think we'll need to find the website, because I don't know how they did the scoring, but it was something like a hundred and fifty points difference. One on one outcomes, maybe.

Edit - From the first show (last part):

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From the second Viking v Samurai (link to last part):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo5e77B5FW8
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Re: Deadliest Warriors
« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2009, 11:27:31 PM »
I watched the Apache/gladiator show and they had the Apache win.  They have one on one 'fights'.  They have experts demonstrate weapons of choice, they record force/damage/velocity/accuracy...data from the experts using the weapons, input to a program, run the numbers, and voila.  I wanted to watch the viking/samurai one, but I don't have anything but over air TV.  I was curious who would win and thought they would be more evenly matched, especially with the one on one aspect.  Now with a war type scenario I think the samurai would win.  The Japanese had/have a tendency to fight like ants, when skill is not the overwhelming decider.

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