Samurai vs. Spartans vs. Vikings vs. Knights

Also add the Celts (Who kicked the romans ass!), AND Beowulf! So he can yell "Beowulf!!!" As he tears through all of them!

And since the ninja turtles are in there lets also add.... THE POWER RANGERS!! (the first ones though).

Celts didn't kick romes ass....?

Weell, my roman history post pax romana isn't very strong, but britain was pretty well conquered by the romans until their withdrawal in the 5th c. (?). Boudica's entire army was completely destroyed by 1 and a half legions (XIIII and what remained of XX). But what do you mean by celts? Boudica was of the iceni tribe, that can sort of be considered celtic.

What about Beowulf? (The ridiculous one from the movie who screams his own name constantly)
Or the power rangers? Where is your fancy links now? Muhuhahaahaha!!!

I'm never sure how people refer to the celts - it varies drasticaly from only england to any barbarian tribe north of rome.

But the gauls were completely massacred and almost enslaved by rome. Look up the battle of Alesia. Vercingetorix was publicly executed.

I think that oos3thoo was refering to the iberians or spanish. Their FALCATAS put fear in rome for many years...right?

the samurai's ability to adapt was quite good. They adapted to the koreans, chinese, and mongolians. The samurai beat all of them. The only weakness that the samurai would have in battle was some weaknesses in their armor. Otherwise, they are greaT WARRIORS. The Spartans mostly fought other phalanxes like the Athenians... theres no difference between the samurai and spartans in adapting. Maybe the spartans would adapt better because they were abused badly when they were younger...which toughened them and taught them how to live on their own which also teaches them to use their terrain to their advantage.

Yep, the Romans fought everywhere and against everyone on land and sea. They were organized and inventive. They made strategic alliances. They knew how to party too.

The Samurai in Korea does not constitute a big enough test of adaptation. The Spartan phalanx is based on a standard used throughout Greece at the time. Alexander the Great took a version of that Phalanx all the way to Egypt, Persia, Afghanistan and India. In India he faced his toughest challenge against Poros who used War Elephants and the Greeks still came out ahead. That is a test of adaptation.

The Romans beat the Greeks in the Macedonian wars through better organization. The Roman legions were divided up into 200-250 man Manipols. They made surgical strikes at weakpoints in the Greek Phalanx. More important to Rome was their strategic alliances. When they suffered huge losses against the Carthaginians they were able to raise new armies from among their allies. Their allies were a source or recruits for the legions.

Alexander the Great had to foresight to begin a similar international recruitment program. He recruited and trained men everywhere he went. His Macedonian nobles were very resentful of this. They did not want to fight alongside non-Greeks as equals. After his death they abandoned the program. That is the reason why Rome came to rule the world and not Greece.

Says who? I like the Romans and like Tsafa says, they threw a good party.

every one of my friends don't care about the romans. but they do care about the samurai...spartans...ect....

the romans didn't do or have anything beautiful or cool that was extraodinary like the spartans...samurai..ect...