User blog comment:Wassboss/Ancient Real Life Holy Grail War!/@comment-3189283-20180320103032

I don't usually vote on my own battles but YOLO I'm going to for this one.

Seventh Place

Harald Hardrada is the first one out here. Most of that has to do with his equipment, being the earliest warrior here he has at least a hundred year tech disadvantage on everyone else and it shows. A lack of a ranged option and a more aggressive approach to combat means he'll die early on to someone whose better armoured and better equipped.

6th Place

Rashid ad-Din Sinan (what a fucking mouthful that is) is the next one to die. He has plenty of cover in order plan out his attacks and use his stealth skills but as Battlefan points out below he works best when he knows about his opponent and their skills and the only person he'll directly know about is Richard. His weaponry is also not great with his Saif and Khanjar require him to get up close to use and this makes him vulnerable due to his lack of armour and direct combat skill. His best option is to try and snipe with the Composite Bow but he's coming up against better archers in Genghis and Yue Fei anyway so he'll have problems there.

5th Place

Genghis Khan's poor record on this wiki continues here. A Recurve Bow in the hands of a Mongol is a frighteningly effective and can probably puncture through nearly all the other armour on display here (except for Gilles). What drags him down though is that aside from his Bow he doesn't have many options with his Sabre being meant for mounted combat and the Mace being very short range (and with his less protective armour this is a real problem). He suffers from this not being a cavalry battle but even if he did have a horse the dense brush and thick forest would make it hard for him to use effectively.

4th Place

Right smack bang in the middle comes '''Yue Fei. '''Yue Fei has a couple of the same problems as Genghis, being overly reliant on ranged combat and favouring light mobile armour over something more protective. He does have a couple of things over the Khan though which makes him place higher. Firstly is his lack of dependence on mounted combat, he can fight just as well on foot as he can on horseback. Secondly is that his Melee weapons are better suited for the scenario and give him a number of options in close range. He's a solid all-rounder but the remaining three combatants are going to have too much for him.

3rd Place