coolest warriors?

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The answer is always the savages.

Pic related, PNG tribal warfare today. Absolute mad men.

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>>1664058
In an age where they can readily get firearms they choose to war with bow and arrows, because tribal warfare is what they do.

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>>1664067
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xELN9MB2WU0

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>>1664010

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caroleans. they walk up point blank range until they can see the white in their enemie eyes, give them a volley of gunfire, then charge armies 3x the size of them.

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dem beards

>>1664087
>russias cosplaying as swedes

fuck off

>>1664087

Worked out real well in the end.

>>1664119
it did actually, the swedes just made the mistake of invading russia >.>

>>1664111
Weren't they mainly German or Scottish and not actual Swedes?

>>1664111

m8 you got a serious case of trips

>>1664124
Caroleans were swedes drafted directly from Swedish heartland. The meme Polandball you see is referencing to mercenaries Gustav used during 30 years war. Which makes no sense because everyone used mercenaries back then and Swedes were acknowledged as great warriors and Gustav was studied and admired by people such as Frederick the Great and Napoleon.

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>>1664010
Here, I listed them all

>>1664752
That Robert de Bruce face

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>>1664792
>no Persian cataphracts
You dun goofed, faggot.

>>1664875
>irrelevant middle easterners

lmao

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I always thought Normans were pretty cool guys. Eh kills saracens/english and doesn't afraid of anything

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ÉIRE
I
R
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>>1664875
byzantine cataphracts?

>>1664792
>roman soldier
>italian flag
>Not the Roman SPQR or eagle or wolf flag
bleh
>knights templar
>french tricolor
>Japanese emperial era solider (only see one scabbard so maybe ashigaru, not samurai???)
>not the imperial seal of flag of the shogun
>German soldier from WW2
>German flag instead of Nazi
kys

>>1664934
those are two of my god damned favorite words

>>1664890
>eternal butthurt anglo
kek

>>1664058
>>1664067

I'd rather get shot by a rifle than be impaled by a an arrow to be honest.

>>1665159
No to mention their arrows are probably coated in some god awful substance.

>>1664103
Seconded

opriniks
tartar cavalry archers
manchurian cavalry archers
mongolian cavalry archers
xiongu cavalry archers
hungarian cavalry archers
portuguese dragoons
dutch ruyters
hoplites

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>cataphract memes

>>1664067
This is also an age where they don't have to kill each other for sport in the first place...

>>1664080
>video titled tribal fighting
>no actual fighting takes place
disappointing desu

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>>1664934

>>1664051
you mispelt cataphract

Spartans

>>1665747
he also misspelled kebab

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Really, no Spartans?
Yeah they're kind of meme warriors but if you put aside the shitty pop culture around them they were undeniably, objectively, cool.

>>1665783
but thats a macedonian phalanx

>>1664010
The Emperor's Winesacks. A buncha drunken slavs whose loyalty was bought with drink.

>>1665792
eh same thing
alexander the great was macedonian

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>>1664010
The United States Marine.

Legendary.

The Few
The Proud
The Marines

>>1665822
Spartans never used phalanx themselves nigga

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>>1666136
Semper Fi

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>>1664934
So Persian cataphracts then. Since they basically copied the Persian ones anyway.

>>1664890
Retard.

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>>1664875
I always liked the Sassanids more than the Achaeminids. Check out the badass clothing of this Spahbed. The Sassani cataphracts were, indeed, cooler, but I like the elegance of the Spahbed clothing too.

>>1664956
>not understanding the picture

it's historical soldiers of modern day countries

>>1666202
Spahbed was basically a field commander, usually a noblemen from a high ranking aristocratic family iirc in the Achaemenid, Arsacid, and Sassanid empires. Hence why they'd have weapons but not wear armor since they'd be directing their army, not fighting at the front lines.

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>>1666136
I FUCKING bet that 10 marines can take on 1000 of any of the other faggots posted in this thread.

Marines are war machines. Ready to kill any time. Ready to die but never do.

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>>1664010

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100 to 1 last thing u ever c k

>>1666252
I would pay $100 to see some marines take on any army before the early modern period. Would be entertaining af

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Lithuanian nobles of late 15th century

>>1666295
north sea glory

>>1666155
>So Persian cataphracts then. Since they basically copied the Persian ones anyway.

No, they are uniquely Byzantine.
with your line of thinking one could argue that every modern firearm belongs to the first man to throw something because it is essentially the art of attacking from a distance.

>>1665666
Saxons are only good at killing briton peasants

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>>1666550
>imblygin

>>1665666
fucking cringe

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>>1666629
u wot.

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>>1664058
I've watched a few doccos about PNG and their tribal warfare mostly seems to be about intimidation than actual battle, like a wolf staring down a coyote.

The tribal warriors gather in packs opposite each other, shoot a few arrows, and scream, hoot, and generally make racket towards eachother, while perhaps a few braver men might try to rush out and physically assault one of the enemy's more alpha specimens.

Usually this process continues until one side runs, though there are rarely any severe casualties or fatalities. When one tribe does manage to kill any number of an opposing tribe, the victorious warriors will feast on the cooked flesh of their defeated foe.


And yes, somewhere deep in the untouched jungles of PNG, these societies are alive and well.

>>1666140
Not the macedonian phalanx but the regular all greeks used. Really without long ass spears phalanx isn't really that special.

>>1666761
The Spartans did you the pike for a short while.

They just didn't have the numbers of warriors to match anyone by that point.

Mind you this is when they started using the half spartan free citizens for full time military service because the number of actual Spartans was only around a couple thousand by that point.

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>>1665159
>>1665202
it doesn't need any nasty substances when it looks like this. these things are designed to literally rip your guts out.

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>>1664934
I believe that is a russian, not a byzantine. Byzantine cataphracts used padded jackets over their armour.

>>1666140
Actually the Spartans did use the Macedonian phalanx later. The Macedonians still blew them the fuck out however.

>>1666103
Is that a plague doctor?

>>1666136

>The Few

180,000 active personnel.

>>1665159
>>1667431
Fragmenting bullets inflict much nastier wounds than arrows, even barbed ones.

>>1665822
>eh same thing
No.

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>>1664010
>no one posting Mongols

Are you guys serious?

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I think these guys look quite cool. I would pick viking berserkers, but they're quite cliché and I couldn't find any pictures that weren't cringy.

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>ctrl+f
> NO oven man

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>>1664010

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>>1667864

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Have to agree with Caroleans. They were stylish, brave and exceptionally competent, very well drilled and disciplined.

>>1667869
Tercios where the real players man. True warriors fighting in true wars.

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Ayo hol up, we wuz khanz an sheet

>>1665822

>eh same thing

most false statement on /his/

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>>1666269
>>1666271
>>1666568
Literally, unironically, and objectively this.

They were fly as fuck, OP in the time period, and they won what was likely the most significant single battle in the 17th century for Europe in a spectacular and decisive fashion.

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>>1667968
>The battle began after dawn. The French army attacked, but the French infantry in the centre were bested by the Spanish. The cavalry on the French left, advancing against Enghien's orders, was also thrown back. But the cavalry on the French right, under the command of Jean de Gassion, routed the Spanish cavalry opposite. Enghien was able to follow this up by attacking the exposed left flank of the Spanish infantry. Spanish cavalry made a successful counter-attack to drive off the French cavalry, but were checked by the advance of the French reserve.

>Enghien now carried out a huge cavalry encirclement, sweeping behind the Spanish army and smashing his way through to attack the rear of the Spanish cavalry, which was still in combat with his reserves. The Spanish horse was put to flight, leaving the Spanish infantry to carry on the fight. The French were twice repulsed by the stubborn Spanish squares, so Enghien arranged for his artillery and captured Spanish guns to blast them apart.

>The German and Walloon tercios fled from the battlefield, while the Spanish remained on the field with their commander, repulsing four cavalry charges by the French and never breaking formation, despite repeated heavy artillery bombardment. Enghien then offered surrender conditions just like those obtained by a besieged garrison in a fortress. Having agreed to those terms, the remains of the two tercios left the field with deployed flags and weapons

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>>1667689
>berserkers
>cringy
ur just pussy

>>1668063
Why do vikingboos never get the details right in pictures of their >le epic pagan warriors?

>>1664989
Why would Anglos be butthurt over Iran? Anglos cucked Iran twice

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>>1668069
there's nothing wrong with the details you little pissfuck

>>1668107
There is nothing wrong with details because berserkers weren't a thing. "Berserkers" were similar to knights in that some Norse men-at-arms wore animal pelts to distinguish themselves from the common rabble. Also they wore chainmail like any that would go viking and could effort it did.

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>>1668124
>Also they wore chainmail like any that would go viking and could effort it did.

Holy fuck what did I just say?

Also they wore chainmail like any norse that would go viking and could afford it did.

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>>1668124
you couldn't be more wrong maybe you should shut your mouth if you don't know what youre talking about

>>1668138
>4 belts
>random leather bracers
>guy looks like he had access to diet that would be inaccessible to most people
>no mail even though he can afford that sort of diet
>using two axes instead of an axe and shield

This is so retarded. Norsemen that could afford a mail used a mail, if they were raiding they would want to get one if they could afford it. They also carried shields, all of them did.

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>>1668160
This is what norse would look like

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>>1668200

>>1664792
That's a portuguese conquistador you retard, but from your list i get it that you're retard.

>>1668213
>That's a portuguese conquistador you retard

Why are Portuguese so butthurt about this all the time? Do you think conquistadores who wore breastplates and morions were unique to Portugal? Never occurred to you Spanish conquistadores were more influential and thus more widely known?

The Spanish conquistadores also wore breastplates and morions and they are the ones that conquered Aztecs and Incas, Portuguese are largely irrelevant and people only know it as "not-Spain" near Spain that's supposed to be Spain. Not only that, Kingdom of Portugal was under Phillip II of Spain at the height of both Spanish Empire and Kingdom of Portugal.

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>>1668160
>>1668200
we're talking about berserkers, not some punk ass coward wannabes

>>1668265
So you are talking about fictional warriors from fantasy and mythology. Cool.

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Definitely cavalry of some sort. Especially in modern era.

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No landsknechts?

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>>1668276

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>>1668272
berserkers aren't fantasy, fuck off

>>1665822
God damn I fucking hate /his/ sometimes
I don't mind if people come to learn, but keep your retard thoughts and shitposts to yourselves post quality will increase massively for it
Removing humanities would also improve the board

>>1665666
Nice trips

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I like me a Housecarl

>>1668276
>Dat 3/4 plate
>Dem burgonets
>Dem plumes
Noice taste

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>>1668318
They existed but not this stupid fantasy kind.

Anyway here are the coolest

>>1668318
Berserkers were real, but they aren't the Elder Scrolls-looking shit you're posting.

You give credence to all the retarded Norse-bashing threads here on /his/, stop it.

>>1667652
>300 mil Americans
>smallest branch on the military

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>>1668124
Berserkers were specifically attested to not wearing chainmail in lieu of wolf furs. This was supposedly important, because when they started berserkergang they supposedly would just lose it and might attack their friends, so if you saw a man in furs stay out of his way.

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Can't believe those badasses are known only locally. Peasants made warriors, defying the corrupt catholic church, undefeated for the whole civil war, until they started killing each other.

>>1664869
Cringed

>>1668655

A FUCKING GOOSE DRINKING FROM A CUP

>>1668655
Czech em dubs

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Unf

>>1664080
This is fucking sci-fi to watch.

>>1664080
Why do they take the women and children with them to fight?

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Not a 'warrior' but I feel the need to post this guy.

>>1664124
>>1664133
they were finns.

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>>1666642
>>1666618
>>1666586
>>1666559
>>1666250
>>1666202
>>1666155
>>1664934
>>1664875

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>>1668389
>Removing humanities would also improve the board

Can we nominate you for the new Mook?

>>1668892
some were finns but the majority were swedes

>>1669196
Looks Roman, but that tiny shield? Empire auxiliary?

>>1669212
Pontic?

>>1669244
>>1669249
Celtiberian

>>1669258
>Celtiberian
>Pontic
Not much of a difference superficially, at least in military campaigns

>>1664010
There's nothing cool about people who kill people. Fuck you all

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lol

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>>1669178
>implying swedes would endanger their own skin when they have shitload of eastern savages to use as a cannon fodder
kek

>>1666728
>SS Thunderbolts right under the American Flag.
Please tell me I'm wrong.

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>Ctr+F teuton
>0 results
Are you serious? This place is in dire need of a Baltic crusade.

>>1667667
Well yeah, and a nuke can make you glowing ash. Whats your point? (No pun ?)

>>1667864
So fucking badass

>>1666664
>Usually this process continues until one side runs, though there are rarely any severe casualties or fatalities. When one tribe does manage to kill any number of an opposing tribe, the victorious warriors will feast on the cooked flesh of their defeated foe.

You understand that post is very respective of 'older' fights?

Melee brawls are a hollywood meme.

>>1664080
Pic is how they would be fighting, just shooting over the obstacles, until yeah, one side gives.

>>1665657
Evidently not.

>>1668802
PNG are a fucking manly society. I'm Aus, so we have a shit tonne of PNG people living here, they are simply of a different caliber than the rest.

They also breed like rabbits, it's in their culture. Not a bad thing - but most of the PNG people I know have HUGE families despite being in the lower twenties.

>>1667989
By law, you are not allowed anymore to be this cool. Damn

>>1668825
Looks like some kind of cosplay from the past

>>1664926

>irishmen fighting for brits
>irishmen fighting for the union
>no south amargh brigade or any provos

heritagefag detected

>>1668714
Most aesthetic Roman armor right there

>>1669638
PNGs also fucking loath Muslims because of how horribly the Indonesian state treats west Papua

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Modern special forces in general are cute

>>1669901
>Tony Hawk brand helmets
Kek

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>>1669980
they're just helmets m8

>>1664121
The mistake was fucking marching through the swamp other than that they did really well considering they were usually outmanned.

>>1669617
That it's dumb to think those arrows would give you a harsher time than most bullets.

>>1669387
nowadays its used for sniper squad or something similar (notice the weapons theyre holding). dont worry, theyre not nazis

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>>1668229
Shut the fuck up you dim witter nigger
There ARE differences between Portuguese and Spanish conquistador too bad you're too much of a inbred pleb to know about

>hurr my list isn't shitty because these are more widely known misrepresentations

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Nothing cooler than going glass cannon and succeeding.

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>>1668200
>>1668203
>not posting the ultimate osprey viking pic

>>1666252
Well yea cause they have guns

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>>1668063
>>1668107
>>1668138
>>1668265
>>1668318
>this guy posting all of this fucking fantasy fan-art
cringy as fuck


not enough love for the legion in here, though

>>1664065
Is this Siberian, Alaskan or what?

>>1664792
You have the most shit taste I have ever seen.

It's like you're a thirteen year old one an Xbox gaming forum. I'm surprised you didn't list Sparta.

>>1668655
This nigga right.

>>1672184
t. butthurt non-yuro who thinks his history matters

>>1668063
Grow up.

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Immortals

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>>1673019
i don't need to, i'm already a grown MAN. MANLY MAN. LIKE A BERSERKER.

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>Tfw you know /his/ is full of shit when it doesn't post anything from the subcontinent.

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>>1673562

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>>1673571

>>1666136
The Only Really as Good as Most Other Western Country's Regular Army.

>>1673378
>Falseflagging this hard
It's ok Ahmed, most people on /his/ dislike vikings already.

>>1665723
It's pretty common for pre-modern societies to engage in this type of ritualized endemic warfare. It allows the benefits of warfare (group cohesion, an appropriate outlet for aggression, displays of martial prowess) while keeping casualties relatively low. It doesn't escalate to all-out killing until times of great need. If people were constantly killing and dying over minor conflicts, there would be no one left to work.

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>ywn defend your king's lifeless body to the death from mounted knights
>ywn never defeat an army of ravaging Vikings
Best Germanics reporting

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>>1674123
iktfm8

>>1668389
Move history to /lit/ and humanities to /pol/
We didn't need a new board

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No one? Arguably best pikemen of their time.

>>1674184
Lmao fuck no.

We need a separate history board, I just don't know about humanities.

There should be a /his/, but maybe it needs a /hum/.

>>1666140
Source?
Thought thermopylae was a tactical success due to inability to flank the phalanx in the pass?

>>1674193
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB3H05OhVDI&list=PLd4lTrbNEx2OSdDZrr2d3jOTm3zrXVKml&index=7

For you

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>>1674594

>>1674599
a e s t h e t i c

Next yung lean video should have a feudal japan motif, if he can ever make a good song again

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>>1674613
They really did have top tier aesthetics.

>>1672295
Tom Hanks

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>>1668063
>>1668107

>>1674643
Not him, but that is terrible cherrypicking. All of those battle were fought on enemy territory and they did nearly manage to conquer Britain after all, which is quite impressive.

>>1672285
>hoplite
>crescent shield
>falcata
No.

>>1674712
>Greek
>falcata

Kopis, friend.

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I don't know how accurate these pictures are but they look rad as fuck, real or fake.

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Sikhs are aesthetic for the meme-weapons alone.

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>>1674693
>they did nearly manage to conquer Britain after all

I'm *nearly* impressed

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Gas-mask SAS are top-tier.

>>1674193
Got rekt by tercios so hard they went back to cry to germany

>>1674728
Yeah considering the Romans and later the Germans did it with ease only a few centuries earlier, it's not that impressive. But you get my point.

>>1674728
Are you self-aware? Nearly conquering all Britain, and literally conquering areas like Danelaw and their Norse Mann Kingdom, where impressive feats.

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>>1664058
>warriors

>>1674755
When Romans came it was just shitty Celts, and they only half half of Great Britain.
Anglo-Saxons took only the southeastern party of Great Britain, until England would take all of the British Isles hundreds and hundreds of years later.

So when Norsemen go and take ask the outlying islands + parts of Ireland and then take Danelaw, they're about on par with all the other players desu.

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>>1674714
eagle warriors looked more like pic related

>>1674714
jaguar warrior seems accurate

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>>1674987
forgot pic

>>1674712
>what is the Boeotian shield

>>1675258
number 2 looks sick

these were supposed to be anglo-saxon varangians?

>>1674749
Guessing you referring to the sack of Rome in 1527. Wouldn't call that getting rekt. Loosing some fifteen thousand men to a force of five thousand isn't something to brag about. Also all of the warriors had their significant downfalls and such are tercios and Rocroi. But in 1790's Swiss mercenary companies made up 10% of Spanish forces.

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I love shooting Turks with my hobbit friend and qt horse archer waifu

>>1669295
Was thigh armour really a thing at the time?

>>1672285
Thespian hoplites are best hoplites

>>1676382
I don't think so, you can see none of the others in that pic are wearing it and there are a lot of references to hoplites dead with "bloodied genitals" since they didn't bother to guard that region

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Sikhs in general were just awesome

>>1676211
Sassanids best-sanids.
>tfw not bathing in the light of Ormazd
>tfw Cataphracts are a thing of the past
>tfw you will NEVER be an Asvaran

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Tibetan/nepalese/bhutanese were pretty impressive.

>>1674123
Who are these? I hope they are Saxons

>>1676211
What the fuck is that in the cataphracts hands?

>>1676951
topknots are no substitute for a helmet

>>1676382
I think so but in very rare cases
Helmet and a linthorax or cuirass was what most would use, with Greaves being another mainstay
Alexander's pike phalanx went with helmet and linthorax mostly, helped with the issue of mobility
They started wearing more armour again after then got spanked by Romans after poor tactics

>>1664010
Varyangers, varjaagit were Finns.

>>1664869
My eyes

>>1664869
saved

>>1666728
>>1669387
>>1670140
US Marine Scout Snipers

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The Absolute madmans. Murder hobos from real life, they adventures read like a DnD book.

>>1676993
chink helmets are not sexy.

>>1676991
We know thanks to greco-roman sources that persians had a device that allowed them to loose several arrows in one shot. Sadly it's not described how it was or worked. This is how Osprey's artist' interpreted it could be, similar to some sort of crossbow, even though what it came to my mind while reading about it (in osprey itself) was some small thing you added to the bow that made it easier to multi-shoot like robin hood.

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>>1676656
>you will never ride with your king of kings to defeat the servants of the lie and enemies of the aryan nation

Why even live, /his/?

>>1677193
Væringjar were mostly swedish.

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>>1666664
Why does this remind me of modern warfare.

Oh yeah, cuz gorillas.
Main difference is they don't state each... Wait they do that to.

>>1672184
bootyblasted shitskin

>>1677660
He's right though, that was the most pleb vanilla taste ever

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>you will never be made a Theygn

>>1677660
I agree with him and >>1677667 to be honest. Add a viking and a spartan and you got the Official Fedora Ranking™

>>1677667
>>1677689

So just because they are not obscure enough for you means they are pleb fedora tier?

>>1677694
More like literally all of them are, in a pretty long list, but yeah. Would've got no problem if he just said "I like samurai".

>>1677694
They often get trotted out as examples of badass warrior societies, when they're just above average. They're also so commonplace that genuinely interesting warriors get drowned out in favour of OH MAH GAWD BRZRKRS OH MAH GOD DIS IZ SPARTAAAAA

>>1677713
>when they're just above average

How do you make this judgment? You sound like you're just being contrarian

>>1677725
None of them were significantly more skilled or better equipped than their counterparts in other cultures, with the possible exception of the Romans.

>>1677749
Can you give an example of 'better' warrior societies?

>>1677684
jdimsa

>>1673378
Woah this looks exactly like my uncle. Berserkers GOAT! all others would get slayed by a nordic woman with a frying pan

>>1677694
Kind of.

Plebians well lap up the normal shit, but a patrician knows how to find the cool stuff that is actually tailored to the things you like?
Why a Berserker when a Housecarl was literally superior in all ways?
Why a knight when a cataphract?

>>1677766
Indians are rarely mentioned and are always cool, someone mentioned the Sikhs, they're interesting, the Prussians during the late 1800s, dark age Irish who beat the invading norsemen on numerous occasions, the Swiss guard, the Swedes during the early 1700s, the Scythians, there's plenty of alternatives to the same fucking dudes that you find in goddamn Cracked articles or WatchMojo videos

>>1677823
Listen to yourself. You just sound like a salty contrarian

>>1677809
>Why a Berserker when a Housecarl was literally superior in all ways?

How were housecarls superior? You sound like a kid comparing different video game character stats, not someone who seriously understands history.

>Why a knight when a cataphract?

Because more people are familiar with knights? Just because something is more obscure doesn't make it better

>>1677900
Sunshine, there's nothing wrong with liking things that aren't liked by other people

>>1677502
That's a portuguese sailor.

You can tell from the crab sword.

>>1677909
That's pretty ironic considering you were the one saying knights, romans, spartans, conquistadors, samurai, etc were all inferior vanilla plebshit warriors

>>1677924
When on earth did I say that? I just said that they were no more impressive than any other warrior from their time period, and that there are plenty other warriors that are interesting and overlooked

>>1677900
A Housecarl was of higher standing, was the kind's guard, had great equipment, and were the known professionals.
A Berserker was just a shock troop with some religious connotations.

Cataphracts were arguably on the front lines of Christendom, but I concede that Knights were great in their own right. The real problem is just the completely Vanilla Teutonic choice. Should've been something like Normans, they had a more impressive record.

>>1677944
>Teutonic
I meant Templar, my bad

>>1673775
Holy Shit, Do You Expect People To Take You Seriously When You Type Like A Fucking Fifth Grader That Never Learned To Only Capitalize The First Letter Of A Word At The Beginning Of A Sentence Or Capitalize The First Letter Of Every Word In A Title Except Prepositions.

>>1674632
>Top Left
Cannot unsee

>>1672295
>You will never live in a literal videogame

Fuck

>>1678071
He was emphasizing it to reaffirm his previous point, whereas you've only taken to having a sperg out over his method, not his actual point.

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>When you fight a world empire as a collection of upset peasants, nobles, mercenaries and burghers and actually manage to beat them and mark the beginning of the end of their foul empire

Dutch Empire Best Empire. Geuzensoldiers best :'-)

>>1664869
>>1664956
>(you)
Stop purposely misunderstanding pictures in order to seem smart.

>>1665783
how does one even wield such a long weapon?

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>>1674897
>he wrote in English

>>1677475
I think there was a thread about this on /k/ where its actually because the Marines liked the SS and thought they were cool so they adopted that symbol, due to the fact that the Marines never actually fought the SS and saw how bad they were. It was the US Army who was in the European Theatre and really grew to hate them.

>>1679841
Mate, I'm a HARD Anglo-Saxonaboo, I mean BAD, but the Norse where absolutely a major player.

>>1676957
>
That's a Han Chinese general

>>1679825
With a ton of training. Macendon differed from many nations of that era by having a standing army of professional soldiers rather than just levying peasants during the campaigninch season.

>>1668443
Kek, why does the one on the left have a European style steel longsword? I mean I'm sure the Aztecs did capture some from dead spaniards, but it doesn't really make for an accurate depiction.

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>>1679917
Where?

>>1664010
Anyone here doing Art History just to learn about arms and armor? Or am I wrong on this? I am trying to find out if there is a degree for this because I am dreaming of being a museum curator for arms and military stuff.

>>1680219
Some important parts of the British Isles, my nigga/brōþor

>>1668213
How can one recognize if its a portuguese or spaniard solider?
Not bantz, im actually interested.

>>1680215
allies armed with spanish weapons

>>1680195
But levies could use it.

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>be danish
>even special forces wear burqha

>>1679841
>which is the dumbed down bastard child of various Germanic and Latin languages

>>1680474
And England was germanic.

>>1664080

The guy has a hard hat and a lever action gun, painted with red clay, lol what?

>>1680471
kek

>>1677823
Good taste

>>1679974
I thought that a high up Qing officer would be a Manchu,but maybe you're right

>>1680215
what kind of swords did the Spaniards use?

>>1669210
Dumbass brought a fishing spear to the fight. Point at him and laugh!

>>1680896
Manchu/Han divisions were worthless by the 18th Century Qing Period.

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South Armagh Provos, something about the green balaclava

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>>1679739
This right here

>>1664083
looks gay

>>1664103
this

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Considering how much we know about Spartiates' feats and training and philosophy and lifestyle, I find it difficult to exclude them from the podium of the coolest warriors ever.

>>1680474
I feel like people say this because some form of -abooism makes them want to believe it's near wholly a Germanic language, taking from Old English above all else.

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You know what's not so cool about any of these warriors? Getting physically close enough for victims to kill their courageous ass, perhaps before they can even get the job done! These guys know what's up: do your killing (or any other dangerous job) from far away as possible.
Don't think so? >>1664058

>>1669638
PNG are literally savages who couldn't stop raping each other and being cannibals to do anything worthwhile like being civilised.

They're a trash people, worse than abbos because at least abbos aren't as savage.

>>1681918
*believe it's not wholly

Anglo-Saxons pussies.

GALLO-FRANKISH MASTERACE

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>>1680303
Major players in the blade games they were indeed.

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>>1682910
>Gauls

>>1664010
>Fourth Crusade
>Constantinople is under siege
>"we're not fighting unless you gibs us more money"
Varangians weren't that cool

>>1664792
Shit taste, conquerors were not even the most fashionable spanish troops of their time and they are not even more fashionable than their soldiers today.

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>>1682927
>Anglos

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>>1682951
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWF0oKwSdtM

>>1682959
>anglo-saxon """warriors""" in charge of not being fatties

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>>1682998
>not going bearmode

>>1682910
>GALLO-FRANKISH
who speak neither Gallic nor Frankish

>>1669282
>he doesn't know that violent struggle is the nature of humans