User blog comment:Swg66/Army vs Army: East vs West/@comment-3166030-20110424081113/@comment-67.247.143.113-20110425011901

The Romans aren't actully a phalanx. There also a problem with you argument that the Mongols and Persians will take out the charging Celts and Vikings. The Sheild, almost all the Western warriors are using some kind of sheild, pluss the Persian bow actully have poor penatrating power and the Mongol arrows lack penatrating arrows tips. Also the English longbow men will decimate any target they hit, there arrows will puncture any eastern warrior's armor. Also Celts and Viking aren't mindless brutes, there battle charges are actuly planned out that way for a reason. They run to make themselves harder to hit, and so they can smash the enemylines with full force. Second there war crys are ment to intimiadate there enemy wearing down there morale bofe they even hit. And it will affect the easternd no matte how well trained, these guys are giants by comparison, they at least be unnerved by these war charges. The Celtic war charge was widly feared through out the mediteranian for a good reason, it worked and it worked well.