going into war is the same thing now as it was back then, think about it. you go out with swords and get mashed by a couple thousand troops. battles werent like everyone thinks where some super soldier in white armor and a white horse would ride down the battlefeild slaying 20 people before reaching the enemy base and winning the war. it was rush in and slash as many people as u could. to me, if anything, that takes less skill. what i think most of you are talking about is dueling. there is a complete difference between dueling and war. War takes groups, large numbers which will result in a general rush when it comes to swords and sheilds, dueling is where you would see your enemies face before the fight and have time to think about it, and i actually have to disagree with Cap J on his opinion on "But you need to have guts to actually go out and face your enemy with the full knowledge that you may not walk away from it." because when you go out to any war, you have that knowledge, do you think the troops in iraq dont have those worries everyday? well if u do, then you didnt make it seem like u knew that with that post. since you seem to be putting less though into gun fighting and more into sword dueling, and yes i say dueling because thats what most of you are talking about, although u may think you mean war, its not. you have to cosnider the fact that in firefights its alot more scary, you dont know where your gonna get hit from, and you sure as hell dont wanna try and check because if you do u could get blasted by a stray bullet. in a midevil war, you had the same problem but arrows dont fire as fast as a gun, and they dont go nearly as fast, so you could check and with a little more assurance. although many people think gun wars are less gutsy in my opinion they take more guts. some people may argue "what about snipers theyre teh ***" but think about it, if ur a sniper and u know theres another sniper somewhere out there in the battlefield, and ur also incharge of covering you fellow teamates, then u have quite a problem on your hands dont you? since you need to provide cover fire and not give away your position. sure nowadays we have powerful bombs and weapons that can kill multiple people with less effort, but if u think about it, there were also trebuchets(sp?) in midevil wars, which took out multiple people with one boulder, which is a similar concept as a bomb,please not i said SIMILAR, not the same, and they are similar in the fact that they both take out multiple enemies with one "shot/explosion" so to say that midevil wars took more guts is something u need to think about more imo, because alot of people posting here are reffering to duels and not wars. war is something far more different then a duel, since war is based on team skill, and duels are based on personal skill, sure u can have 5 skilled swordsman,but if theyre going up against 30-40 other people, wether their "n00b" soldiers or not, the sheer amounts of them would overrun the swordsman and defeat them, especially if the 5 swordsmen dont use teamwork and the "n00bs" do, and thats what wars back then were mostly based on, there were other factors such as point of attack and timing, aswell as many others but thats generally how they went down. also just to say ,a duel is a duel. wether sword or gun, its hard, in firefights u have to think fast and be fast,since the weapon is faster (bullets) and aiming a gun under pressure and firing isnt as easy as everyone thinks. Recoil can screw u over fast, aswell as not aiming properly, anyone whos fired a real gun before would know what im talking about. so in my opinion even in duels, it takes more guts to go in there with a gun then a sword. sword fights just look fancy, and kool. but in firefights theres usually nothing too fancy about it. its brutal fast paced fighting, and takes alot of self control to come out of as a victor, although i will admit that a stray bullet can win u the fight. but so could a lucky throw of your sword, or a lucky rock on the ground, which causes your enemy to tumble and loose his balance. anything like that. a faulty shield, a poorly made sword. there are tons of places where luck can win u the duel, but overall i think id be more scared going into a firefight then a swordfight.
