User blog comment:MilenHD/Season 3 Finale: Ashurbanipal vs Ramesses II/@comment-5795750-20170721040416

BG1's "Clash of the Ancient Titans" Edges:

Short: After reading the other votes and thinking about this (and thinking back to my Caesar vs Ramesses II battle), I will have to side with the bronze khopesh here over the iron sappara - sure iron is a metallurgically superior material to bronze but I think the misconception lies in the fact that the metal used by early Iron Age societies like the Hittites and Assyrians was NOT the same kind of metal used by the Romans for their weapons; in other words, the Hittites and Assyrians used wrought iron in their weapons while the Romans (and later civilisations) used iron-based steel for theirs. And since I've read up that wrought iron as a material is only slightly stronger than bronze but is a bit more brittle, I will have to concede that in some cases bronze > iron.

EDGE: Ramesses

Medium: Javelins are useless as projectiles - once you throw them, they don't come back unless the enemy uses it so if it were to come down to spear vs spear, then the Assyrian spear wins out for its longer reach over the javelin

EDGE: Ashurbanipal

Long: Even without going over the whole issue again about iron vs bronze in terms of the arrowheads, I will still give the edge to the Hyksos bow for its greater range (though Elgb brings up a good point about power)

EDGE: Ramesses

Special: Obviously the mace gets the edge here for having the greater reach over the dagger, plus I'm sure a very heavy thing bashing your head will kill you more easily than a slash or stab

EDGE: Ramesses

X-Factors: TBA