User blog comment:Manofgod/King David vs Count Roland (Battle of the Holy Warriors!)/@comment-4661256-20170510074143/@comment-3977304-20170511011547

There are many ways for David to get pass a chainmail. Mind you that this is not a steel padded hauberk with gambeson like what you see in the Crusades or in the Classical Middle Ages. Roland is only wearing a Dark Age era thin layer shirt of chainmail. A simple blow from a sword will be crippling since simple chainmail cannot block blunt force trauma, and David's bow and spear will be able to get through the rings. Besides, there are like a ton of unarmored parts for an archer or a spearman to hit Roland from a safe distance.

And this talk about Roland being more advanced hency why he will win is wrong. Mind you that he got his ass kicked by a group of poorly armed Basque soldiers who had no armor, had only simple iron weapons, and many of them were only carrying sharpened wooden spears, javelins and self bows during the Skirmish of Roncevaux Pass. And why did these Basque guerrillas manage to defeat Roland and his men? Not by superior arms but because of the use of better tactics and strategy.