User blog comment:Omnicube1/Trung Trac vs. Boudica/@comment-181289-20110429032459

I'm giving this to Boudica, mainly becasue she would be the top of Celtic society, meaning she will have top notch equipment and armor.The Celtic Long sword is more versatile, and while the bow is clearly an advantage, the armor Boudica should be wearing would guard most of her vitile spots. A Celtic mail short should stop most of the arrows, and a celtic sheild offers a good deal of protection as well as a weapon.

I do have a problem however with the sling. The Celts actullg had about the same amount of disdain for the sling as the bow. The ranged weapons they would use were thrown by hand like Javalins, axes, darts or even stones. They didn't like the sling and bow becasue they can be shot in large numbers enmass at the enmey and the users don't have to be particularly skilled to used them in that fasion. In the celtic socity it was all about gaining prowess thru single combat, and it is near impossible to tell who killed who with those long range weapons, so a warrior couldn't claim a kill.