Quote Originally Posted by jabarto View Post
Did you ever see ThegnThrand's videos on YouTube? He spends a lot of time (probably too much) describing things like what you say.

Does anyone else notice that in every episode, there has to be at least one completely ridiculous weapon? The spit of poison and the ball and chain from the Shaka/Wallace episode come readily to mind...

And don't even get me started on the fact that they spent a quarter of the show touting Alexander's unarmed combat abilities and then had him lose to Atilla the moment he lost his sword.
Alexander is an interesting one to do, because we aren't sure what size he was. He may have been as short as 4'10. Ball and Chain (Bishop's knocker) is an excellent weapon, but the choice of the Zulu team to use "spit of poisen" clearly screwed them. As I understand it the "teams" put foward the weapon set themselves.

So the Vikings could have used the Longbow, or Long Axe, instead of throwing thrusting spears and using the Great Axe. Also labelling the shield "special" was absurd. The throwing axe is much more a special weapon. That whole fight was a duff match up, because the Samauri is elite, and they pitted him against what was basically a Viking Carl. They also totally underplayed the dicipline of Viking warriors (men who fought in the shieldwall.)

Sorry, rant over.