User blog comment:Yetimonster/(Reality Match-up)Irish Army Rangers VS Para Commandos/@comment-2136224-20101027232954/@comment-181289-20101028012537

I don't know how the Maori figure into it, but you should also rember Rome and Alexander the Great both set up gigantic empires around the same time China had somthing that could considered an Empire. Even then having and Empire doesn't mean you have better warriors. The Persian Empire was massive, but they still lost to the Greeks.