User blog:TotalDarkness/First Season, Battle 2: Spartans VS Comanches

Welcome to Battle Number 2, todays battle is...

Spartans  -  The heavily armoured battle tank from Ancient Greece

VS

Comanches -  The deadly Native American horsemen who terrorised the 18th Century American plains.

 The Warriors 

Spartans

The Spartan army stood at the centre of the Spartan state, whose citizens' primary obligation was to be good soldiers. Subject to military drill from infancy, the Spartans were one of the most feared military forces in world history. At Sparta's heyday in the 6th to 4th centuries BC, it was commonly accepted that one Spartan was worth several men of any other state.

Comanches

The Comanche are a Plains Indian tribe whose historic territory, known as Comancheria, consisted of present day eastern New Mexico, southern Colorado, northeastern Arizona, southern Kansas, all of Oklahoma, and most of northwest Texas. Historically, the Comanches were hunter-gatherers with a horse culture. There may have been as many as 45,000 Comanches in the late 18th century.

(The above information is from Wikipedia.org)

 The Weapons 

 The X-Factors 

Training -  All Spartan Warriors were trained from a young age, training was extremely brutal and this made the Spartans very brutal warriors. The Comanches were also trained from a young age to hunt from horseback.

Fatigue -  As tough as the Spartans where, carrying that heavy shield and their armour would soon take it's toll. The Comanches would not have this problem since they would be on horseback and carry lighter weapons.

Tactics -  The Comanches quick raids helped them defeat enemies that were better armed than them. The Spartan's Phalanx was a mostly defensive tactic but it made them almost inpenetrable.

Intimidation -  The Comanches had their war cry while the Spartans were armoured tanks. It comes down to who would be more intimidated by the other and personally I think the Spartans would be able to ignore the Comanche war cry while causing some intimidation to their opponent.

Discipline -  The Spartans would be more disciplined due to their training. Although the Comanches would have been disciplined warriors.

 My Personal Edge 

I Think the Spartans will take this, while the Comanches will have the element of surprise they won't have enough to break through the Spartans armour and shield.

 Other Information 
 * The Battle will take place on an American plain with a light woods in the middle.
 * Will be 5 vs 5.
 * The Spartans have a camp that the Comanches attack.
 * Voting ends on the 10th August
 * A well written vote will count as a full vote. A vote with 1 or 2 sentences will count as a half vote and a vote that doesn't give any good reasons will not count at all.
 * If the teams are tied at the end of voting, I will count my own vote.

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