User blog comment:Undead RVD/Battle of the Bronze Armies: Spartans vs Easterlings/@comment-5232784-20130729060039

Okay woodcampers, lets get it started in here!

1. Short range

No contest whatsoever: while the Xiphos is 30 cm, the Easterling Scimitar is a foot long, i.e. 34 inches. The Scimitar is made of steel, which is stronger than Iron: it will cut right into, perhaps even right through, the Xiphos.

EDGE: Easterlings

2. Mid range

The Dori is longer than either Easterling halberd, and comes with a handy butt spike to stabb opponents down on the ground.

However, the Halberd's blades are made of steel, stronger than the iron spikes of Dorys, and they are bigger blades as well. The blad of the shown halberd dwarves the spike of any Dory ever made. The iron Dory heads will have difficulty in piercing the Easterling steel lamenellar armor: the Halberd blades will cut through bronze like tin foil. Once again, we have no contest

EDGE: Easterlings

3. Long range

The Composite Bow is far, far more accurate and has far, far, far greater range than the Javelin. Unlike the iron head of the Javelin, the arrows of the bow have steel arrowheads, and there are more arrows on an Easterling than you will have javelins on any Spartan. No Contest again.

EDGE: Easterlings

4. Armor

The Bronze armor and bonze covered aspis of the Spartans are practically useless against superior steel weaponry. They will offer little defense. Meanwhile the steel lamenellar armor of the Easterlings should hold its own against weaker iron and bronze weapons.

The Aspis can be wielded more efficiently as a weapon than the Easterling shield, but it lacks the protection power of the Easterling shield, due to being covered in bronze instead of bearing steel; Once again, no contests

EDGE: Easterlings

5. X Factors

Not only do the Easterlings have superior weapons and armor to the Spartans, they tie the Spartans in training and fearlessness, and have superior tactics (repeat: SUPRIOR TACTICS) and, as we have winessed, superior metallurgy. This is a no brainer.

EDGE: Easterlings

This is a serious blow to the Spartans here; they never had a shot of a chance. Not one bit. The Easterlings have composite bows, steel weapons and armor, steel shields, and superior tactics: Tactics plus metallurgy plus superior weapons and defenses, and we have outselves a landslide victory. The slaughter would be terrible to witness; thankfully we can read the slaughter instead! If this was on the Deadliest Warrior show, it would probably be the biggest landslide conquest they ever had on that show. Poor, poor spartans

EASTERLINGS ELIMINATE SPARTANS