Anyone else watched (or played) the Deadliest warrior series?
What do you guys find accurate and inaccurate about the scientific and historical information?
Anyone else watched (or played) the Deadliest warrior series?
What do you guys find accurate and inaccurate about the scientific and historical information?
It's a ridiculous show where almost everything inaccurate.
"First get your facts straight, then distort them at your leisure." - Mark Twain
οὐκ ἦν μὲν ἐγώ, νῦν δ' εἰμί· τότε δ' ούκ ἔσομαι, ούδέ μοι μελήσει
It is a wellspring of ideas to stereotype your characters.
Eats, shoots, and leaves.
The overall cheesy and americanness of it all just turn me off.
Also if an Kensei beats a Warlord then theres clearly an unequal skill gap beacuse Warlords kit is objectivly better.
Last edited by Påsan; May 05, 2017 at 05:03 AM.
Eats, shoots, and leaves.
Gal Gadot > Spartans > everything else.
Gal Gadot looks better than Leonidas, but no, Spartans>Gal Gadot> everything else ever
That's why they're referred to as pig stickers.
Eats, shoots, and leaves.
The entire show is wrong. It is literally just gore porn where they hack up and then the hype guy goes "woah! Did you see that! that got rekt!" and then they have the fight at the end. Not that informative.
The George Washington vs Napoleon episode was rigged. The goddamn fighters didn't even have bayonets. They said that Washington had better generalship than Napoleon... seriously what in the ungodly !?
Joan of Arc vs William the Conqueror. William has the inherent edge not only because he is male but because he was historically much taller than Joan of Arc. As far as equipment goes though Joan might have an advantage but I don't think it is as skewed in her favour as the show suggests, since a sword is just a sword and the differences are not decisive.
Ninjas! This episode was unnecessary, the ninja would have opted for assassination not combat. Also the ninja has an egg as a weapon? off show.
Shaka Zulu vs William Wallace was retarded. Wallace would have armour and Shaka would not. That is literally all you have to say. Instead they rigged the match so that Wallace has no armour, either way he has an anachronistic claymore which would cut Shaka to shreds.
French Musketeers vs Ming soldiers. Again they basically rigged this match but I think without realizing it. The Ming would not have been this technologically behind but for some reason they chose a Ming soldier from 1400 instead of a contemporary 17th century Ming soldier which would have had similar equipment to the Musketeer and some rather interesting weapons that I would have loved to see. Alas the show was written by retards.
Hannibal vs Genghis Khan. Completely rigged match. Mongols are working steel, full body armour and have stirrups where as Hannibal is stuck in the iron age from millennia prior. It is obvious how Genghis won this. KHAAAAAAN! Though aside from that there were historically inaccuracies since Genghis was never at the Kalka River, demonstrating that their research is garbage.
Teddy Roosevelt vs Lawrence of Arabia. One of the better episodes, not sure what to say since I am no expert in fire arms. However again they show how bad their research is: Teddy Roosevelt was only the commander of the Rough Riders and did very little during the Spanish-American War in the grand scheme of things. The campaigns in Cuba and Puerto Rico are not a good example of military command or fighting ability at all. Not only was handling of the war largely inept and the soldiers poorly trained but... the war was largely decided by American naval might for sake!
Things are never equal.
Combat results tend to be based on statistics, generalship and some random elements.
Campaigns on resource allocation, manpower pool, political will, geography and the military industrial complex.
Eats, shoots, and leaves.
Is it hard boiled?
Eats, shoots, and leaves.
Eats, shoots, and leaves.
Biggest issue with the Ninja is that the majority of his tools are so that he can escape by slowing down an opponent. The whole point of hiring a Ninja is for infiltration and the assassination of a target or for subverting an enemy with the use of misinformation and confusion. A Ninja could be anybody, even a guy in the rice field next door. A Ninja doesn't even have to kill anyone either if his mission is intelligence gathering and in those cases killing people would just alert others to his presence.
Another thing that I am almost positive on is that the Ninjato is not a real weapon. Ninjas just use a katana and I have never heard of Ninjas using a particular sword. Using a sword for a surprise assassination is also counter productive because you need to be able to draw your weapon quickly enough as well as the space to swing it. A Ninja would be more likely to use poison or knives for assassination and if he is discovered then he would rather run away than risk death or capture.
The other point that is important is that Ninjas were recruited both from Samurai clans or from the peasantry. There were clans of Samurai that specialized in the Shinobi arts and the skills of subversion meaning that many Ninjas were in fact Samurai and therefore high ranking members of the feudal order. Some were also peasants which could be trained or were simply used for espionage because lets face it who better to infiltrate a neighboring domain or run through the back roads of the country side than the peasants who live there. Merchants were also used for espionage or to carry out negotiations. Ninja attacks and assassination were seemingly not all that common, although one could argue that a good Ninja would never reveal whether they committed an assassination and so we can never truly know.