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[Deadliest Brorrior]Broldiers vs Brommandos
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For a show that claims to be taking a scientific look at combat, they're using incredible bad science basically all the time.
I know this doesn't excuse using bad science, but it does explain it somewhat.
Like in the Mafia vs Yakuza fight, the mafia starts by chucking a molotov at the Yakuza guys. Who are just standing there, in the same building as the mafia guys. Granted, I failed "makeshift explosives 101", but throwing an incendiary device at someone is usually best done when you're not in the same building you just set on fire, isn't it?
Some of the weapon match-ups for that fight were ridiculous. Walther vs Sawed-Off Shotgun? Ice pick? Seriously?
The Green Beret vs Spetznaz was probably the least idiotic out of the whole season because they had actually members of both groups as the advocates. About the only things wrong with it were the whole grenade debacle and using the E-Tool rather than something sensible like a K-Bar. Although I don't see how the K-Bar would have done better against the Ballistic Knife than the E-Tool.
I gotta wonder whether the advocates for each side are the ones who chose the weapons or if the producers force them into certain choices.
Saiga wasn't on full auto and M-4 didn't have any of it's trademark attachments like the grenade launcher and master key (was the M4 even around during the cold war?).
Anyway, best thing about the episode was the holster, everything else has been done to death. or, how about the fact that as a chain weapon, it goes over shields and smashes the target's head in.
The other one's nominally about the Terry Schapert show on History Channel, not the Spike TV one.
They could even do a tie in episode with Dog The Bounty Hunter, trying to track down and capture the former hosts and fanboys that win the vote and bring them back so they can be tested on.
You know, to fullfill the macho white trash circle of life.
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well of course. Haven't you played halo?
The host could start off by telling us, the viewers, who were going to watch today. Female Samurai and Gay Pirate. Awesome. So we get shown some weapons of the time, maybe sing a Pirate song, who knows? Then...the lights go down, they get into some weird, virtua-fighter styled ring...
And it's on. Fight to the death and or seriously wounded conclusion.
I would watch that. Although...it does bring up questions about culture and government if a show like that were allowed to exist.
But those questions aren't for this thread.
*Ding ding ding. Fight to the Death.*
Two webcomics for the price of one. Let the hilarity ensue.
Like, real fighting.
I assure you he knows the basics of boxing/kickboxing, and grappling/wrestling, and spars regularly. That is to say, hes actually a fighter.
Im going to say theres a 94% chance that the ninja doesnt. That he is basically a LARPer who is in denial, and thinks that his stuff is absolutely too deadly to train, that he actually can kill the spartan with his bare hands, etc.
Its sort of like a nuclear physicist having to argue with a guy who read about how to moon landing was faked on wikipedia. You're going to get pissed at him.
Simple fact is, Ninjas werent warriors, Spartans were. From childhood they trained to fight in wars. The Ninjas didnt. They were farmers, etc, at the admittance of the ninja rep. They wouldnt bother to go toe to toe with a spartan. Theyd do their farming and stab him in the back with a shiv.
Its sort of like who wins: A guy in a tank vs a guy with a submachine gun. Chances are, the tank. But if the goal isnt "blow crap up" but to, lets say, "Secure this building without blowing it up" maybe the guy with the subgun is better.
Back to the Green Beret show, Sgt McDoughnut, wielder of Spadcalibur, kinda screwed up the Beretta vs. Makarov eval by being asinine and running faster than he could shoot. Not that I think either gun is necessarily better than the other in all ways, but I wouldn't be running around saying that the Makarov is more accurate or more deadly based on that performance.
Now, the Apache vs. Gladiator show... Apaches Snakeface and Dances With Peyote both trained the military in some capacity, and one of the Gladiator guys is a fairly active fight coordinator in Hollywood (the one who was also on Conquest), so I'd consider that one a little more on the level, even if Snakeface apparently suffered brain damage after staying out in the sun too long.
i would really enjoy watching an episode of "Battleship vs. veteran spearman fortified in a mountain city with city walls".
As for the guy representing Ninjas, there's a Ninjitsu master and a martial arts expert. Just how good they are, I don't know but that's far from just somebody that just dresses up in black and plays makebelief. What they did need was a historian on their team.
well, that's what his Bio said.
See, I can find you a Ninjutsu master, and martial art experts in 10 minutes.
I can also find you a 19 year old who could beat the hell out of both of them.
Ive yet to see a guy who claimed to train ninjitsu/be a ninja who could do well in a fight. They usually had very crappy striking and very crappy grappling, because they never really sparred. They'd claim "Oh you could armbar me, but Id bite my way out with my ninja technique" or talk about death touches and crap.
The best Ive seen was Steve Jennum, who fought in UFC 3 or 4. He went up against a boxer, and was getting tooled until he (sloppily) took the guy to the ground, and laid on a horrible armbar. He won, thankfully the opponent had 0 grappling experience. Had he been put up against any of the grapplers there, he wouldnt have faired as well
Find me a video of Ninjas actually fighting or sparring, and Ill recant.
It's not about the representatives fighting each other, it's about what they know about the tools used.
I know, I was pointing out why the spartan rep was likely irritable, as in his mind, the ninja probably thinks he can death touch him instantly.
I honestly think they should cancel this show and go old school Gong Sau. Have a representitive from each actually fight each other. Replace the swords with shock knives of the appropriate length, and go at it.
Yeah and the Spartan rep thinks he can cure lacerated eye balls by blinking and that Tabasco sauce is a good eye cleanser.
Spearman retreats to well-stocked underground bunker. Battleship eventually runs out of ammo and has to leave to meet up with a supply convoy and take on potable water. Spearman then re-emerges from bunker eating vienna sausages, sees smoking city ruins and empty harbor and begins whacking his shield in "victory".
[Citation Needed]
I was under the impression that most ninjas in history were essentially mercenaries hired to cause shenanigans
He can throw two of them at a time.
Your dudes were smoking and tapdancing near the magazine.
"Lou"
"Lou the Ninjitsu Master"
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Based on what little reading and research I've done (admittedly not very much), I too was under the impression that they were indeed basically mercenary guerrilla fighters that would do things like burning enemy crops and other jobs that samurai couldn't do, either due to their code of honor or for reasons of political safety (ie, not having war declared on you because you just marched your soldiers into someone else's land)
mercenary guerrillas vs mercenary gorillas
I'm still particularly fond of
navy seal vs baby seal
Battle of the Millenia
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