User blog comment:Urbancommando77/Mongols VS Saxons/@comment-5232784-20140410175042

Okay boys and girls, lets get it started in here!

1. Close range Both the Turko-Mongol saber and the Saxon Longsword are savage weapons, though the latter being longer has superiority in range. Also, the Saxons have a sax or Saex knife, so they have a 2 to 1 blade advantage right there.

EDGE: Saxons!

2. Mid range

The blade of the glaive looks bigger than that of the boar spear, but the latter keeps its victim from running up or moving up the spear. With the glaive, there is a sleight possibility that a person stabbed with it could force themselves up the spear and make one final strike, just as King Arthur did in the movie Excalibur, after being run through by Mordred's huge spear. And remember: the boar spear is, like its namesake, designed to kill boar, which can weigh in Europe up to 400 lbs or more. Imagine what it could do to a short, snarly human that weighed maybe 150 lbs or less?

EDGE: Saxon

3. Long range

Though the crossbow will pack a more powerful punch, the composite bow can be reloaded faster than the crossbow. The Mongols were known for sending forth hails of arrows, to very lethal effect. By the time a Saxon fires his crossbow and tried to reload, an arrow may be sticking out of his chest, throat or eyeball

EDGE: MONGOLS

4. Special

The Dane axe I believe is a longer, bigger weapon, having more weight behind its blows and at greater range. This is a no brainer.

EDGE: SAXONS

5. Armor

While the Mongol lamellar armor is made of leather, the Saxon armor has chainmail as well as leather: Steel trumps skin

EDGE: SAXONS!

WINNER: MONGOLS!

Sure, the Mongols have a major weapons disadvantage in edges, but they win in long range and, above all, they win with the horse and tactics

While Saxons were mostly ground troops, the Mongols were mounted warriors, and often devastated far larger ground forces by peppering them with countless arrows and keeping out of striking distance by using their horses. They fought like a long limbed boxer to pummels his opponent and yet can always keep out of range of his punches. The Saxons had never faced such a horrendous enemy, and they could not hope to run down men on horseback in order to get up close and personal. Mongols were highly accurate, even while riding fast on horseback, and they will finish the poor Saxons faster than my dog can finish off a doggy biscuit. Tactics, horses, and long range edge win it for the Mongols

MONGOLS MUTILATE SAXONS!!!!!