they could always pull out the real time strategy middle ages games. Age of Empires 2: The Conquerors.

Mongol Mangudai vs Byzantine Cataphract

[Edited on May 6, 2009 at 2:48 PM. Reason : .]

5/6/2009 2:47:51 PM

^^They already do nature vs nature, and its stupid as hell.

5/6/2009 2:52:07 PM

I too felt that the entire program this week was slanted towards the mafia. I guess that baseball bat exhibition scared the producers?

5/6/2009 3:02:32 PM

This show sounds retarded. No bullshit, is it worth watching?

5/6/2009 3:03:56 PM

Quote :

"^^ Aren't Sais blunt weapons? ^ What era?"

they're basically spikes, so the tip is sharp. regardless, even if they aren't as pointy as an ice pick, with enough force they would fuck up a skull

and they didn't say what era, but i'm guessing 70's-80's when the spetsnaz were at their peak. green berets would probably win in any era though [/US homer]

5/6/2009 3:08:41 PM

Putting modern/former russian and american soldiers in the same room, saying which one would win, should be interesting to watch

5/6/2009 3:32:10 PM

yeah i'd like to see a couple old vets go at it while they're demonstrating all the weapons. viva la cold war!

5/6/2009 3:39:48 PM

i also thought yakuza kinda got cheated. i agree w. the tommy gun+ the ceramic grenade. but bat vs. nuchucks? nunchucks are much easier to hide,can be used defensively and how easy is it to see a bat coming? they showed a much shorter sawed off than what they shot so while it was easily more powerful, u had less accuracy(sorta), less effective at a distance , harder to conceal and only 2 shots. then they argued over the sai as if u couldn't just as easily jam one in the skull much like the icepick. either way i'm excited ab next weeks show.

5/6/2009 9:47:25 PM

i told my future brother-in-law (who is a green beret) about next week and you could just see the images of gutting a dirty russian running through his head

5/6/2009 10:24:57 PM

Sais really aren't that sharp at all

5/6/2009 11:20:50 PM

Is it fair to compare the Spetsnaz against the Green Berets though? I would have thought Delta Forces would have been a more appropriate comparison. Should be interesting regardless.

5/7/2009 12:33:08 AM

^^ you really think if you went to town on someone's skull with one of those things, you couldn't do more damage that with an icepick?

5/7/2009 10:15:00 AM

Al-Qaeda vs. Taliban?

5/7/2009 4:12:06 PM

Its not so much a contest of which warrior could win a hypothetical battle, as much as a contest of which warrior can better beat the shit outta a dummy

Or which warrior's distant descendant/historian/random person can beat up the dummy the best.

[Edited on May 7, 2009 at 4:42 PM. Reason : y]

5/7/2009 4:41:28 PM

Quote :

"WORM VS WORM"

5/7/2009 5:55:24 PM

Green Beret vs. Spetznaz tonight at 10. Who ya got?

Green Beret FTW.

America, Fuck Yea!

[Edited on May 12, 2009 at 1:14 PM. Reason : ]

5/12/2009 1:12:40 PM

Green Beret, unless the Russians poison them in their sleep.

Which they will.

5/12/2009 1:13:51 PM

Next week looks badass.

5/12/2009 11:11:56 PM

Close up weapon for the Green Berets was the E-tool? Weird. I'm trying to find videos or recaps of this one online and not having much luck

Quote :

"After week 3 of the show a web series on Spike.com was created and named Deadliest Warrior-The Aftermath. Produced in a roundtable format,[5] it serves as a sort of liason between the opinions of those watching the show and its producers. During the show the producers focus on a specific matchup and debate the issues raised by viewers that pertain to the episode. It adresses some of the percieved inconsistencies for the show as well as provides commentary from contributors such as Max Geiger and experts in specific fighting styles."

[Edited on May 13, 2009 at 3:06 AM. Reason : The Aftermath]

5/13/2009 2:59:43 AM

the Green Beret vs. Spetznaz finally made me understand the significance of the russian/Diesel wearing the black-and-white striped shirt in the thomas jane punisher movie

also, the spetznaz are beasts

5/13/2009 8:05:30 AM

Wow, I'm surprised at the results. Those Spetznaz guys did look like some bad men compared to the softer more chubby Green Berets

5/14/2009 8:21:24 PM

Shaolin monks vs. Maori tribesman tonight. Who ya got?

I'm taking the Shaolin monk.

5/19/2009 10:38:01 AM

it was what 518 to 482? far far less a margin that is needed to be statistically significant


ill take maori, they got range

[Edited on May 19, 2009 at 3:15 PM. Reason : f]

5/19/2009 3:14:36 PM

damn that shark tooth thing is some twisted shit

5/19/2009 10:52:08 PM

Hookswords FTW.

5/20/2009 11:41:14 AM

It's William 'The Wallflower' Wallace vs. Shaka 'Laka' Zulu. Who ya got?

I expect Wallace will prevail.

[Edited on May 26, 2009 at 3:49 PM. Reason : ]

5/26/2009 3:48:51 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1dRiV7ngu4

5/26/2009 4:00:49 PM

Quote :

" It's William 'The Wallflower' Wallace vs. Shaka 'Laka' Zulu. Who ya got? I expect Wallace will prevail. "

One would hope so... vastly superior armor vs relatively primitive weaponry. I have never watched this show, but seen some clips... looks incredibly stupid, and from what I saw on how they portrayed Vikings vs Samurai it's just stupid. Pretty much a cliched view of both... and the Vikings equipment and tactics were grossly inaccurate.

5/26/2009 6:49:41 PM

so who won?

5/27/2009 9:10:03 AM

there is just so much that they do not account for on this show. you cant base what warrior will win only on their weapons. there is so many other stuff to consider. the show is lame but i like watching the weapons damage

5/27/2009 12:16:13 PM

wallace won 62.1% of the time

5/27/2009 1:26:02 PM

New episode this Sunday night instead of Tues., and I think it's the last one of the season.

5/27/2009 1:32:00 PM

taliban vs ira, should be fun to watch

i think they just need to let the 'experts' duke it out

5/27/2009 5:01:12 PM

i like whenever they talk up he cutting-edge computer program they use to generate the tests, they cut to an excel spreadsheet

it's a fun show, but there is absolutely no science behind it whatsoever

5/27/2009 6:13:20 PM

^ Exactly... Supposedly it was developed by "Slytherin Studios". All I could find on google were screensavers made by Slytherin Studios.

And the dude uses an Alienware laptop to simulate it. When they film him typing, he's not really typing anything comprehendable. He just taps the keyboard really fast.

[Edited on May 29, 2009 at 7:29 PM. Reason : wuba you tee eff]

5/29/2009 7:26:04 PM

^^^

Quote :

"Al-Qaeda vs. Taliban?"

Yeah, looks like I wasn't that far off.

Quote :

"How long--if ever--do you think it'll be before they do an episode (or two) with fictional characters (I realize there may be some fiction involved already)?"

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And the "William Wallace vs. Shaka Zulu" episode is certainly getting closer to a battle between fictional characters--all we need now is a movie tie-in and the right money. Who is deadliest?

5/30/2009 7:41:42 PM

IRA vs. Taliban who you got?

I'm too American to pick anything but the IRA.

5/31/2009 8:57:53 PM

i don't know a thing about either of the groups' specialty weapons, but i gotta go with the IRA just because of my irish heritage

5/31/2009 9:02:11 PM

Anyone watch the show last night? Those guys on the Taliban side need to be interogated. Seemed a little too pro Taliban.

6/1/2009 9:25:07 AM

6/1/2009 9:41:25 AM

I wonder if they will try to do another season?

6/1/2009 1:00:44 PM

i was curious as to who they'd get to defend the taliban. "representing the taliban we have expert bin laden"

6/1/2009 3:27:28 PM

Live from Gitmo?

6/1/2009 5:32:54 PM

this show is biased in favor of white people

they ain't lost yet, except when the whiter people beat the white people (russians vs green berets)

6/1/2009 5:53:15 PM

That was the funniest reinactment by far this season. The last scene needed some clown/circus music as they chased each other through the bus.

[Edited on June 1, 2009 at 7:14 PM. Reason : funny as in the "bad" kind of funny, not the hilarious kind]

6/1/2009 7:14:25 PM

I believe what you were reaching for was Yakety Sax.

6/1/2009 9:20:49 PM

Yep, that's it! Thanks

6/1/2009 9:24:12 PM

Somehow the Toweliban always have that theme playing the background when I think of them in my head.

I blame South Park.

6/1/2009 9:25:58 PM

Quote :

"this show is biased in favor of white people they ain't lost yet, except when the whiter people beat the white people (russians vs green berets)"

Apache beat Roman Gladiator
Samurai beat Viking

I watched most of these in a row and was thinking it was going to be biased against white people in the beginning

but with William Wallace vs Shaka Zulu there really was no doubt. Modern armor and steel weapons vs ox hide shield?


any word on a new season?

6/8/2009 7:58:51 PM

^ that's typically why whiteys have usually done better, both on the show and through the general subjugation of the rest of the world (alexander, rome, british empire etc)

6/9/2009 3:51:24 PM