User blog comment:The Deadliest Warrior/Alexander the Great vs. Genghis Khan: The Greatest Men on Earth Round 1/@comment-2187516-20101127184442/@comment-422690-20101128021019

The macedonians do have their work cut out for them, since their metal armor and weapons make for a much slower response to a harrying force of archers and reduces mobility when compared to the much lighter leather and fur armor of the Mongols. Sure, there is a greater killing potential, but there is also the restrictions on movement that the metal armor puts on Alexander's men.

As a side note, saying "Alexander will figure it out" or "He has never lost a battle" are NOT acceptable counter-arguments. For the first, that cannot be verified. For the second, there are two reasons why that cannot be valid. 1) A better way of saying it would be "He has never lost a battle that we know about"; revisionist history and attempts to make the shiining star of Macedonian military achievement look good likely had any lost battles cut out; this was in the ancient past, and so we do not have reliable eyewitness testimony. 2) even taking this into account, there is no gaurantee that he will perform the same under different circumstances; there is a lot more than just one factor at play here.