Re: In today's news...
1 if a ninja is famous he fucked up, no one should be able to tell how the assassination happened or who did it.
Congratulations. You just
completely missed my point by continuing to cling to your own inaccurate idea of what a ninja is.
2 my point of a 10-1 ratio of pirates to ninjas still stands, how many ninjas do you know of?
Yes, ninjas were always smaller in number. But then, so were pirate crews, because they're undisciplined and don't get along well. They need a strong leader to scare the shit out of them enough to get them to work together, and one strong leader can only keep so many in line. Add more strong leaders you say? Then you've got the people leading the men not getting along with one another, which is a recipe for disaster.
It's the same formula that meant the Romans could beat the Gauls and other barbarians; disciplined force vs undisciplined force. By using superior tactics and being able to fight as a cohesive unit, a small force can defeat a much larger foe.
3 i understand that ninjas are better soldiers than pirates, but there not super human, and explosions fix everything.
Once again, you're not reading my earlier posts. I believe I already did a piece on the inherent inaccuracy and unreliability of the firearms of the day. They basically had to volley fire to do anything practically effective. Cannons are in theory more dangerous, but it takes a very long time to reload them; at least several minutes, which means unless they time their shots very well they won't be particularly effective. A round shot from a long distance is dodge-able; you can see it bouncing along the ground. A round shot up close will hit everything in its path, but realistically you want grape or canister shot in that situation to turn the cannon into a giant shotgun. And, of course, and most importantly, cannons rely on the attack coming from the direction the cannons are facing, otherwise by the time they're repositioned it's just as likely to be too late.
Are we finished with using gunpowder as an excuse yet?
4 i never said that ninjas couldn't fight, and i do know some things about ninjas. for one thing a ninja vs a spartan in a 1-1 the spartan would win. its on spike tv's deadliest warrior, and its actually an interesting show.
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Alright, yes, the Spartans are trained from birth to fight..
But... their primary fighting style is a phalanx, something that relies upon numbers, AND being attacked from the front. (Something that wasn't hard to do in Greece, thanks to the local terrain).
An individual Spartan is certainly not useless without his phalanx; he knows how to use his weapons. But he's also a warrior of antiquity, he's completely out of date with the kinds of tricks the ninja could pull. Smoke bombs, flash powder and other small explosives would likely completely overawe him, how one does fight against a creature of the gods?
I protests that in this hypothetical scenario, the Spartan really doesn't have much of a chance as he has no idea what he's dealing with. To cite a historical likeness, the Spanish conquest of South America.
