VAL0R
Banned
This battle of the sexes is fought with ancient technology - swords, shields, spears, etc., no firearms. Assume that both armies are well fed, healthy and highly trained. The geography of the conflict is unknown. You are a general in command of the female troops. You are facing 10,000 men. Your king asks you how many women are required to defeat the male army. What is your answer?
I tell the king, "With 10,000 women we will be slaughtered before the battle has started. With 20,000 we will be crushed. With 50,000 we will lose bitterly. With 100,000 we will lose, but they will suffer. With 200,000 we have hope of victory but not a guarantee. If they can channel the women to a narrow fight of waves and we fail to surround and overwhelm them with numbers, they will butcher us all day long. One skilled man could possibly take 50 or 100 women."
Men are far larger, stronger, faster and more aggressive. The power difference between men and women is massive. Many people in modern society don't understand the degree to which men are physically dominant. The average man is something like six inches taller and 30 pounds heavier. Female upper body strength is a mere fraction of a man's. The physical advantages in combat for men are legion, from muscle mass to skeletal structure.
The taller men with longer arms have significantly greater striking range. Men wield longer spears and swords, can endure thicker armor and heavier shields which they can hold high for longer. Their elevated and downward strikes are much faster and viciously harder, dealing out grievously wounding blows on the slower, softer, weaker female warriors. The men withstand blows that might otherwise knock a woman unconscious or remove her from battle. The men absorb much more punishment and continue to fight and kill. It would all be psychologically shocking, terrifying and demoralizing for the women to see their front lines utterly decimated. Body parts flying everywhere, women lifted into the air like children onto spears. The roar of the men and their withering onslaught would induce panic and fear.
I say 20-1 for a real chance, but not a guarantee. If that seems outrageous to you, consider that men have in fact conquered other men in actual historical battles with similarly stacked odds.
I tell the king, "With 10,000 women we will be slaughtered before the battle has started. With 20,000 we will be crushed. With 50,000 we will lose bitterly. With 100,000 we will lose, but they will suffer. With 200,000 we have hope of victory but not a guarantee. If they can channel the women to a narrow fight of waves and we fail to surround and overwhelm them with numbers, they will butcher us all day long. One skilled man could possibly take 50 or 100 women."
Men are far larger, stronger, faster and more aggressive. The power difference between men and women is massive. Many people in modern society don't understand the degree to which men are physically dominant. The average man is something like six inches taller and 30 pounds heavier. Female upper body strength is a mere fraction of a man's. The physical advantages in combat for men are legion, from muscle mass to skeletal structure.
The taller men with longer arms have significantly greater striking range. Men wield longer spears and swords, can endure thicker armor and heavier shields which they can hold high for longer. Their elevated and downward strikes are much faster and viciously harder, dealing out grievously wounding blows on the slower, softer, weaker female warriors. The men withstand blows that might otherwise knock a woman unconscious or remove her from battle. The men absorb much more punishment and continue to fight and kill. It would all be psychologically shocking, terrifying and demoralizing for the women to see their front lines utterly decimated. Body parts flying everywhere, women lifted into the air like children onto spears. The roar of the men and their withering onslaught would induce panic and fear.
I say 20-1 for a real chance, but not a guarantee. If that seems outrageous to you, consider that men have in fact conquered other men in actual historical battles with similarly stacked odds.
