User blog comment:Sir William Of Chalitton/Season 1 Special : Knights Templar Vs Spartan/@comment-422690-20140429220202

I'm issuing a fairness challenge here. You have a late Crusades-era warrior with top-notch steel weaponry against one from the Bronze Age with bronze weaponry, with a little bit of iron here and there. This metallurgical advantage makes a huge difference - the Assyrian's conquests were fueled mostly by the fact that they had iron over bronze. This is steel. It's far, far more advanced, and far more devastating. Bronze weapons are far softer than steel; whacking bronze against any form of steel will have it bent out of shape. Iron is of a similar quality; it's fairly soft in pure form, and in cast form it's brittle.

The time gap is simply too much for the Spartan to overcome, as has been born out by the votes.

And before any talk about the Aspis: That's a lot more than just bronze. In fact, most construction methods would have the outer layer be solely of bronze.

I need to leave for class now, but I may or may not add more later.