User blog comment:El Alamein/Venator vs. Giant Short-Faced Bear/@comment-5232784-20130804234613

Okay there sportsfans, lets give this a shot (BTW: good battlecard El Al)

1. Short range

Already, the GSFB has a disadvantage in having a 2 to 1 inferiority: while it has jaws, the Venator has both a whip (wielded by a Bestiarius, meaning that the Bear is outnumbered 2 to 1 as well) and a net. The net's weight won't do much to stop the bear (its highly stout), yet it could get sidetracked into biting it or trying to throw it off. If its not big enough it will swat it aside or shrug it off and continue towards the Venator and Bestiarius. The whip wont do nothing more than tick the bear off. And the bear's jaws can kill one far, far faster than a weighted net or a whip could.

EDGE: GSFB

2. Mid range

It would be a big help to know how long the spear is, in order to guage who has the better range 9im guessing the spear), but the GSFB can swat such spears aside like they were nothing. Indeed, it could snap them in half with a blow of its paw and claws, or possibly cut the spear in half with its claws. The power behind these animals was awesome. And their superlong reach is notable (They used this efficiently when fighting giant Ground Sloths). While the Venator and Bestiarius cannot swat away the paws of Arctodus with their spears, the bear can more than do this with its paws, and then some

EDGE: GSFB

3. Special

I have to say this now; the armor of the Venator and bestiarius are NOT GOING TO STOP THE BEAR. Indeed, the leather armor and bronze leg and arm armor will prove useless in protecting them from the power of the ebar's swipes. One swipe could take their heads off or perhaps even cut them in half, with or without armor. The bronze armor will likely dent and buckle unde rthe bear's jaws.

Meanwhile, the bear's size and weight are its armor, and it is HUGE. True, venators slew elephants, but they probably did that with numerous Venators and Bestiarius in the arena against one elephant (correct me if Im wrong), and they have never faced such a huge animal that would eat your feet! Its size and great strength will give it an edge

EDGE: GSFB

4. Psych factor

Psych: The Bear will look upon the Venator and the Bestiarius as something interesting, something maybe to eat. The Venator and Bestiarius will be skittish, never encountering such a huge bear before, especially one that looked like the GSFB did.

Likewise, unlike the Venator and Bestiarius, who are trained to simply fight animals, the GSFB is a bully scavenger, forcing predators away from their kills, often by its size and ferocity alone. When the GSFB rears up and roars, the Venator and bestiarius will be a'shakin'

EDGE: GSFB

5. Strategy:

The Bear will try to intimidate the venator first, and then approach (this would be the case if the Venator and Bestiarius has a huge dead animal before them, and if the bear is hungry), or it will approach with curiosity and then try to kill. Or it could decide to run it down and strike (though this is unlikely: if the Bear had to turn during a run it would snap its legs). meanwhile the Venator will wait for the bear to approach, try to snare it with the net while the bestiarius lashes with the whip, and then stab repeatedly with the spear. This is the far better tactic.

EDGE: Venator

6. Combat experience

GSFBs fight throughout their lives. They are raised to dominate other big game. Venators and Bestiarius have fought often in Gladiatorial matches, but probably did not have the beast fighting experience that the GFSBs had. Indeed, it is highly unlikely that they did; the bear would assert its authority over the animal kingdom often, while the Venators did not have the same constant combat experience (gladfiatorial matches did not happen 365 days a year). Bear has experience superiority!

EDGE: GSFB

7. Endurance.

The Bear can take more damage and has an incredible amount of endurance, often walking mile sand miles and miles to attain its fleshy prize. the venator and bestiarius will fall like wheat before a blow that would only iritate the bear. Though they might be matched well staminawise, the bear will take more damage and keep on trucking, and chewing.

EDGE: GSFB.

8. Intelligence

No contest: the Venator and bestiarius are human, the bear is not. While humans are the smartest creatures on earth, the GSFB was not the smartest bear (Brown bears were more intelligent, and they fought Venators too).

EDGE: Venator

9. Creativity

This goes alongside the superior intellect: the venator and Bestiarius will  try to come up with ingenious ways to slay their opponent, while the bear does not have that comparitive capacity.

EDGE: Venator

10. Weapons

Though the weapons of the venator and the bestiarius include metallic headed spears, the GSFB is far more seasoned with its weaponry than the Venator and Bestiarius are with theirs. It will be more fluid in its strikes and bites

EDGE: GSFB

11. Brutality

The Romans were brutal beyond belief. Case in point; when they whipped someone (like Jesus Christ) with a cat-of-9 tails, a whip than can have serval hooks on it (made of metal, bone, etc), and involve several straps instead of the normal one, they would strike that person with 'Forty lashes minus one', a term that had no meaning: often the romans whiped them far beyond this. Indeed, many who were sentenced to be cruficied died before they made it to their cross. The Romans enjoyed watching animals and the innocent die in heaps in the arenas, and even brushed blood on Christians, including children, before they unleahsed the lions and other carnivores on them.

Yet the GSFB lives for brutality; it will eat young and old, the healthy and the lame, it has little to no empathy. It sees everythign around as something to be crushed in its jaws. There is not comparison.

EDGE: GSFB

Fear shall prove crucial here: while the bear may grow fearful as the battle continues, if it finds itself being caught up in a neat and spear stabbs, the Venator and Bestiarius will be frightened immediately by the bear, especially when it roars and rears up. Its huge size, its carnivorous diet, its unuusal appearance, will all cause the Venator and Bestiarius to be shocked, unsteady, perhaps cause them to run. This will give the GSFB an initial advantage, and as the bear come sin for the kill, revealing its ferocity, it will be an even bigger, stronger, better advantage.

GSFB wins this in a short time, maybe 2 to 5 minutes

GIANT SHORT FACED BEAR ORDERS VENATOR BURGER AND BESTIARIUS FRIES, NO COKE