User blog comment:SkullinBones1/Season 1 Finale. Viking vs Samurai Rematch/@comment-25253035-20200111053617

Polearms: Def hard to say which one is better. The naginata is certainly better at slashing and can be used on horseback. But the winged spears can both thrust and slash, and unlike the msotly two-handed Japanese glaive, the spear can be used in conjunction with a spear. In the end, I think the spear would be more decimating, since either if the smaurai is on foot or in the horse, the more versatile and simpler spear would either struck him on foot or dehorse him while riding. Then there's the dane axe, which is absically the swiss-army knife of its time. It can hack through armor, pull shields away, be used to unhorse people as anti-cavalry weapon, split other polearms into two etc.

Edge: Vikings

Long Range: This obviously goes to the samurai since they were actual archers with the better long range weapons.

TBC if it doesn't get deleted