User blog comment:SPARTAN 119/Viking vs Athenian Marine/@comment-181289-20120224224212

I vote for the Viking. The Athenians were not full time warriors like the Spartans, they would be other somthing like a potter of blacksmith and only foguht when there was a war. Where as the Vikings made ther living by attacking other people and taking there possesions. Now on the weapons, none of the Athenian weapons will work well aginst the Vikings armor, where as a few vikings axe and even his long sword to a lesser extent, will send blunt force dame through the Athenians plate body armor and Helmet.

Now I have to say one thing, Athenians aren't anything like the Spartans in combat abilitys. Like metioned above the Athenian army was comprised of people who did other things for a living, and there training wasn't nearly as intensive as the spartans, there equipment would be similair as apretty much all greek's used the phalanx but they aren't comparable to the Spartans as a military.