User blog:MilenHD/Saxons vs Scythians

Saxons: The Germanic conquerors of Britain.

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Scythians: Central Asia's ruthless ancient horse warriors.

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Saxons
The Saxons were a confederation of Germanic tribes on the North German plain, some of whom migrated to Great Britain during the Middle Ages and formed part of the merged group of Anglo-Saxons that would eventually carve out the first united Kingdom of England.

The Saxons were Ingvaeonic tribes, whose earliest known area of settlement is Northern Albingia, an area approximately that of modern Holstein. This area overlapped the area of the Angles, a tribe with which they were frequently closely linked. Saxons participated in the Germanic settlement of Britain during and after the fifth century. It is unknown how many migrated from the continent to Britain, though estimates for the total number of Anglo-Saxon settlers are around two hundred thousand. During the Middle Ages, because of international Hanseatic trading routes and contingent migration, Saxons mixed with and had strong influences upon the languages and cultures of the North Germanic and Baltic and Finnic peoples, and also upon the Polabian Slavs and Pomeranian West Slavic people.

The Saxons carved their invasion in Britain with: Short Range= Saxon Longsword Mid Range= Dane Axe Long Range= Saxon Spear Special= Seax
 * Weight: 2 pounds
 * Length: 3 feet
 * Iron
 * Weight: 7 pounds
 * Length: 5 feet
 * Steel head, wooden handle
 * Weight: 4 pounds
 * Length: 6 feet
 * Range: 25 feet
 * Iron head, wooden pole
 * Weight: 1 pound
 * Length: 1.5 feet
 * Iron

Scythians
In antiquity, Scythian or Scyths (Greek: Σκύθαι) were terms used by the Greeks to refer to heterogeneous groups of horse-riding nomadic pastoralists who dwelt on the Pontic steppe. However, the name "Scythian", and the related word Saka (in Persian), was also used to refer to various peoples seen as similar to the Scythians, or who lived anywhere in a vast area covering present-day Central Asia, Russia, and Ukraine—known until medieval times as Scythia. They have been described as "a network of culturally similar tribes." The historic European Scythians spoke an ancient Iranic language, and throughout Classical Antiquity dominated the Ponto-Caspian steppe, known at the time as Scythia. By Late Antiquity the closely-related Sarmatians came to dominate the Scythians in the west. Much of the surviving information about the Scythians comes from the Greek historian Herodotus (c. 440 BC) in his Histories and Ovid in his poem of exile Epistulae ex Ponto, and archaeologically from the depictions of Scythian life shown in relief on exquisite goldwork found in Scythian burial mounds in Ukraine and Southern Russia. The ultimate "origins" of, both, Scythian culture and historic groups remains a focus of academic discourse, however, the rise of the Scythians was likely to have been multifactorial and polycentric. What is certain is that, during the Iron Age, a broadly similar "Scythian culture" flowered in a vast zone from the eastern European steppe to the Altai Mountains.

The Scythians dominated the steppes of the Ancient World with: Short Range= Acinaces Mid Range= Scythian Spear Long Range= Scythian Bow Special= Scythian Axe
 * Weight: 1 pound
 * Length: 1.5 feet
 * Iron
 * Weight: 5 pounds
 * Length: 6 feet
 * Iron tip, wooden handle
 * Weight: 3 pounds
 * Length: 4 feet
 * Range: 400 feet
 * Iron Arrows
 * Horn, sinew
 * Weight: 2.5 pounds
 * Length: 2.5 feet
 * Iron head, wooden handle

My Edges
Short: Edge Saxons: A longsword vs short sword? It is  so hard to decide.

Mid: Edge Scythians: His spear is lighter and more manueverable than the heavier dane axe.

Long: Edge Scythians: Bows beat spears every day.

Special: Edge Saxons: The Scythian axe isn't going to do anything against the Saxon's helmets or shields, but the seax can knock few of the scales of the Scythian, despite being shorter, plus the seax can be used as throwing dagger, but it is a risky move.

X-Factors
Armor: Saxons 85, Scythians 86: Both have almost identical armor, but the only diference is that the Scythians have fish scale iron armor which protects from stabs and iron helmet, while the Saxon have chainmail armor, boss shields and a iron helmet too, which chainmail armor is weaker against stabs but they have a giant shield to compensate.

Horseback Skills: Saxons 70, Scythians 98: No contest really, the Saxons used horses, only after the Migration period and weren't trained horse riders like the Scythians who lived all their life for horse combat.

Swordsmanship: Saxons 92, Scythians 80: The Scythians were archers and primarly used axes in close combats. The Saxons were experts at blade combat using their longswords with combination of their shields or having their machete-like seax short swords or long daggers when they lost their swords.

Brutality: Saxons 88, Scythians 88: Both were ruthless warriors of the Iorng Age and the Migration Period, conquering and pillaging all who stood before them.