User blog comment:Leolab/Ancient User Tourney, Round 2: Oliver Moreau (Winter) v Sir Bors of Newcastle (Elgb)/@comment-4661256-20160526193432/@comment-4661256-20160531021202

So, for the mercenary experience thing, I will concede, although this error of mine was done mostly because I missed it the first time. We still have a much clearer idea of how much combat experience Sir Bors has (he specifically mentions having fought in battles across Europe, which means organized war), whereas Oliver Moreau's "mercenary work" is entirely left to interpretation. For all we know, this mercenary work could have entailed cleaning up bandits and highwaymen wherever he went (much less impressive a feat than fighting against other trained opponents). While I think this is tenable on its own, even if we give Moreau the benefit of the doubt and say that, yeah, his merc work indicates having fought in wars, guess what? Sir Bors was also a merc for a period of time, so he'd be equally experienced in that kind of work. Sir Bors still takes an edge in combat experience, therefore, by matching Moreau's mercenary fieldwork and supplementing that with some good old-fashioned regular war experience (which implies better training, too, as a result).

Yes, the Twin Hooks were an interesting anomaly because they were the one weapon that won the match for the Shaolin Monk, but they were just that--an anomaly. That rarely happened on Deadliest Warrior (and anyway, this is Deadliest Warrior we're talking about, which isn't always the most reliable of sources), and I don't think that the katars will somehow negate all of Bors' other weapons advantages (including the longer reach of the halberd and sword when compared to the katars).

I never claimed that the katars wouldn't penetrate Bors' armor. If anything, I acknowledged the threat they presented to Sir Bors in my vote, so I don't know where that became pertinent.

I'm not really trying to argue anything here with you, Leo, except for the fact that Sir Bors' combat experience has him better prepared for this encounter than Moreau. And, perhaps, that the katars are not going to be the only weapon that Moreau uses. He's not going to just take one look at Bors and immediately equip his katars every single time.