Vikings vs Samurais

Deadliest warrior have answer.. watch ep2.

Of course i'm going to vote "vikings"...And here is my attempt at making reason for it, as being Scandinavian: They were not the kind of cruel, blood-lusting, violent savage killing-machines History Channel will have people believe.

When they raided, they did so out of hunger and desperation. They might sail to a place wanting to trade, only to be chased away while they had their family and village at home risking starvation for the winter. What would others do in such a situation?

And the tale about the guy (Tormod Kolbrunarskald) who pulled an arrow out of his heart and looked down on it noticing the fat sticking to the arrowhead, and then hailing the king for having fed him so well...It's just that; Bard's tales; Along with the cleaving men in twain from shoulder to groin with a single blow.

They did not love fighting and bloodshed no more than other people; In fact, a duel (called Holmgang) had not spectators. It was the duelers, left alone on an island, and only the survivor were going to be picked up when the duel was over.

But only the combination of a belief in a better life in Valhalla after death, honor code and morale, desperation, poverty and hunger; Made them formidable fighters. That; and guerrilla-tactics rather than modern-tactics ...There is nothing more draining and deadly to either of the warring parties than prolonged trench-wars, and modern warfare..

It's really a silly question you pose since Samurais have never presented an army of themselves. Samurais are more like battalion/troupe leaders or barons or chieftains i would say. I doubt there was ever 1000 samurais gathered together alone in any Japanese battle. It would be more comparable to ask Knights VS Vikings.

And why would Samurais fight Vikings anyway, even today Japan is basically the perfect trade-partner and good tourists :)

Norse Pride.
Vikings, but Odin help you if the helmets have horns on them! I hate that Hollywood myth..... >=(

Don't buy that manga nonsense, buy these instead:Northlanders is written by Brian Wood, illustrated by various artists on a per storyline basis, and with painted cover art by Massimo Carnevale. The first issue of the series was published on December 5, 2007.

I am reading both and both of them are great. So I would get both if I had the option here.

vikings and cats

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Samurai wins over Viking, science has spoken.
Of course, that "science" is to be taken with a bucket of salt.

Samurais. Samurais. Samurais.
Manga is made by the Japanese. Samurais are Japanese. Samurais.

I voted Vikings just because they are so close and it was losing. I'm evil.

1v1 fight.Samurai all the way.They have better equipment and better training.

But in a battle,VIkings all the way.Samurais did not carry shields.All the vikings need to do is form a shield wall and rain arrows on them.

I might be biased a little bit, but i think Samurai's would win. Vikings are basicly raiders specializing in quick suprise attacks, they didn't use any advanced tactics, even though some of their practices are legendary, they didn't had nothing beyond that. War is also fought by provision and support and Vikings were heavily lacking in that, even if they might won some battles, they would eventually loose because lack of tactis and long term kept bases. Important thing is also where the war would take place, if it was around japan vikings would have one advantage and one huge disadvantage - having acces to anywhere from sea and thus having absolutly free range in quick suprise attacks, but they could never keep a piece of land for any period of time because they woudn't have enough of man power or supplies to wistand a siege or anything, being so far from home means no new men, no weapons, no food, no nothing. Also the equipment, both viking warriors and samurais were higher class citizens who could afford better armor, only advantage i see is in quality of weapons - axe's are simply weaker then samurai swords in production quality and in vertisality, also samurais used cavalry, considering all this i don't think vikings would actually stand a chance.

Vinland Saga is really damn good. I've read it till volume 5.

I'll try to get Vagabond later. And I'm interested with Berserk, Claymore, and Kingdom

To me Vikings were nothing but bloodthirsty murderers. Still, that's enough motivation to win the Samurais in a fight.