User blog:Elgb333/Ninja vs Sicarii



Ah stealth... It multiplies the awesomeness of a single man ten frigging fold. A very powerful weapon in the hands of the devious. Surely, it will turn the tide of war for those who knew how to use it. It's also one of the most humane ways to kill someone, because there's nothing more painless than killing a dude without him knowing he's gonna die. SO yeah, in my own words, "What You Can't See, Will Surely Kill You!" And Throughout history, various forms of assassins were born, but not in the same badassery as these two legendary hitmen. And since someone has already reserve a Ninja vs Hashashin battle, I'll just settle in for the next big thing!

Ninja: Japan's elite clad of shuriken-tossing, smoke disappearing spec ops troops and history's most infamous hitman.

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Sicarii: Israel's dagger wielding guerrilla fighters who made life Hell for the Roman conquerors and their own people as well.

Our expert's will be pitting these two in a bloody, squad-on-squad stealth death match. Who is... the Deadlier Assassin?!

Ninja
The Ninja were the primary, covert operatives of feudal Japan. Unlike their honor-abiding counterparts, the samurai, ninjas use stealth as their main tactic. The ninjas have their origins dating back to the 14th Century. They were deployed on espionage missions, assassinations, and infiltration. Ninjas were hired by rival, feudal lords to help establish power for their respective masters. Unlike the stereotypical ninja displayed in western culture, ninjas, in reality, were up close and personal with their targets. They would wear disguises, like as a geisha or maidservant. Ninjas specialized in both close-quarters combat and long-range assault. After the importation of gunpowder, these warriors were quick to adopt the powder and develop primitive muskets, hand-cannons, back-cannons, and arquebuses. The age of the ninja collapsed during the Tokugawa shogunate. Main=Tanto and Black Eggs The iconic ninja tanto is a dagger with a blade of about 15-30 centimeters in length. The weapon has a straight, typically single-edged blade with the cutting edge curving up to the point. It was a tactical weapon effectively used by ninjas for assassination purposes due to its commonality and concealability. One of the first ninjas in history, Yamato Takeru, was said to use a similar dagger to assassinate two enemy leaders while dressed as a manservant.
 * 15-30 cm
 * Single edge

To escape their enemies, the ninjas employed their most iconic defensive weapon, the Metsubushi or "black eggs". The black eggs are hollowed-out eggs painted black for concealbility. Inside these eggs are any blinding materials the ninja can get his hands on, such as pounded glass, ground-up pepper, ash, mud, dirt and flour. These eggs only weigh less than one ounce, and the ninja can carry multiple eggs to be thrown in the eyes of the enemy.

Every ninjas and samurais are trained in the art of shurikenjutu, or the art of throwing weapons. Shurikens are small, metallic flat disks with pointed blades. When thrown, whatever part of the shuriken's side can penetrate skin. Used mainly for distraction, shuriken can hurt or maim an opponent, but is not lethal enough to kill.
 * -|Range=Shurikens and Blowgun
 * 16-20 feet range
 * Distraction weapon

The Blowgun, or fukiya, is a projectile weapon of Japan. The Blowgun was a hollow tube, usually bamboo, about 20 inches long. The blowgun lacks the penetration, range accuracy and lethality as a purely range weapon, so ninjas would tip their darts with poison taken from a fugu or pufferfish.
 * 20 feet effective range
 * Poison tipped darts

A beautifully designed improvised weapon known as the kusarigama, is a chain weapon developed to be similar as the Chinese meteor hammer. The Kusarigama consisted of a kama, or metal sickle attached to a long metal chain (manriki) with a heavy iron weight at the end. The kusarigama had the advantage of a slash and blunt capabilities. The sickle is used primarily for slashing and can even strip flesh and armor. The ball and chain can attack its opponents with a range of over 14 feet, and with the right swinging momentum, it can latch on limbs, disarm, and trip their opponents. Its ball (insert sexual joke here) is powerful enough to crack skulls and dent helmets.
 * -|Special=Kusarigama
 * 14 feet
 * 4 lbs
 * Sickle, Ball & Chain

Sicarii
Sicarii is a term applied, in the decades preceding the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, to an extremist splinter group of the Jewish Zealots, who attempted to expel the Romans and their partisans from the Roman province of Judea. The Sicarii carried sicae, or small daggers, concealed in their cloaks, hence their name. At public gatherings, they pulled out these daggers to attack Romans or Roman sympathizers, blending into the crowd after the deed to escape detection. They were one of the earliest forms of an organized assassination society or cloak and daggers, predating the Middle Eastern hashashins and Japanese ninjas by centuries. Main=Cloak and Dagger In Roman-Occupied Holy Land, historians agree that the Sicarius used a Roman dagger called a Pugio in many of their high-profile assassinations. Used by Roman legionnaires, centurions and gladiators as a sidearm, the pugio is over 18-28 cm long, double edge with a wide fat blade.
 * 18-28 cm
 * Double edge

To hide their daggers, the Sicarii hid them inside their cloaks, hence the term "Cloak and Dagger". These large cloaks were not only used to hide their weapons, they were also used as a distraction weapon by throwing them at the opponent's head blinding him. The cloaks can also be used to strange or suffocate victims, bind limbs, and can be used as slings as well.

Although normally, Zealots and Sicarii used bows and javelins as primary range weapons, it'll be too unusual to be used for a simple stealth match. Being one of the oldest, and most popular Hebrew weapons of all. The Sicarii can use their cloaks as slings, able to accurately hurl rocks or any solid objects such as metal as projectiles. It can stun opponents and cause intense pain when it hits with the proper momentum, but its lethality is minimal. In the Deadliest Warrior show, its been shown to be able to penetrate skull as well.
 * -|Range=Sling
 * 100 feet maximum range
 * Rocks or metal objects

The traditional dagger carried by people living in the Mediterranean and some in the Middle East, the Sicae was a dangerous weapon used for centuries. Like kukris, the single-edged blade of the sicae curves halfway through the point, making an excellent slashing weapon. The traditional length of Jewish daggers were 40 cm, but some lengths lengths of 90 cm in total. They were dipped in poison for added lethality.
 * -|Special=Poisoned Sicae
 * 40 cm
 * Single edges
 * Poisoned

X-Factors
 Ninja vs Sicarii

90 - Training - 85

Both warriors were highly prized and highly effective assassins. The Sicarii had the advantage of having former soldiers and war veterans in their ranks, as well as being revolutionaries and spies who made countless assassinations in the Holy Land. However, that's where their training ends. The Ninjas were trained in variety of other professions as well as being spies and assassins, such as sabotage, arsonism, infiltrators, body-guarding, secret agents, mercenary works and others.

89 - Experience - 94

Okay, don't get me wrong. Ninjas are very well-experienced. And there were evidence that veteran ninjas trained their prodigies. Their military career which included the Battle of Sekigahara, Osaka, Tennoji and Shimbara were noteworthy. And their infiltration and burning of a highly guarded castle in Imagawa which killed 200 people was awesome as well. But the Sicarii, aside from their spying, kidnapping and assassinating works, fought in almost all of the major battles in the Roman-Jewish War as loyal soldiers, including the Great Siege of the Temple, Battle of Jerusalem, Masada, as well as various guerilla operations executed against Roman legions in the urban and country places.

100 - Mettalurgy - 88

This is no doubt a big advantage for the Ninja. The Sicarius were guerilla fighters who had to forage their weapons. The Ninjas on the other hand were not just logistically blessed, but their weapons were made of better quality steel than that of the Sicarii (Medieval vs Antiquity = Medieval).

79 - Brutality - 100

Japanese warriors are brutal no doubt. They would kill anyone in the name of honor or die trying. But this is nowhere near as brutal as what these Ancient Jews have done. Modern historians called the Sicarii as one of the earliest forms of radical terrorism in history; the same level as David Khoresh and Al Qaeda. They're ready to kill even their own countrymen for what they believe in. And let's face it, it takes some guts for a ninja to infilitrate a castle and kill someone, but it takes major metallic balls for a sicarii to hide a dagger in his cloak, kill his target in public, and quickly haul ass before the fuzz can get him.