Warriors like the Spartans are memes. And everyone now knows after reading the latest literature in the field is that they had dad bods. Knights were strong but had zero cardio. Samurai had all around elite fineness levels. But modern operators have all the latest technology to train and boost performance.
So who do you got?
swinging a sword is harder than any lard military solider today holding a gun
Modern soldiers have modern gym equipment tho.
>wow dude look at these modern pieces of metal I can lift to get way stronger than people in old times and their antiquated pieces of metal
Progressive overload would have been very hard before modern gym equipment.
rep a baby cow every day
ez pz
underrated
>lift heavy thing
>lift heavier thing
There are examples of stone dumbbells and bodybuilders from antiquity but that’s generally true.
You could literally go outside and look for a heavier rock to do arms and deadlifts
A high iq person would've invented calisthenics
they didn't put two and two together back then.
>my entire understanding of modern and historical militaries is based on video games and movies
Thank you for your input anon
you never held a rifle in your life fatass
SKOL
>SKOL
this movie was so disappointing, Eggers' first miss. wasn't too terrible but still not worth watching
>biker vikings
I hate VIKANGZ and garbage like this tailor made to appeal to ignorant white trash. I hate this gay For Honor larp shit and every obese bearded Nascar fan who identifies with it.
sounds like you're more describing the Renaissance fair or civil war reenactment types. In Scandinavia at least the Viking LARPer types are wholesome and SwoleShack sex havers.
Far left by himself in the hoodie is literally me
vikangz were naggers
99% of the time they attacked unarmed monks and villagers and fled once an army showed up
Kek, that's pretty true. They also did basically fucking nothing of note in terms of colonization and trade, they were basically just albinonaggers
Trade and commerce is the main thing they did
They were less warriors than traders
>99% of the time
There is nothing nagger tier about cattle raiding, that was the what Indo-European culture was predicted on from the beginning, only Christianity and urbanism changed this. When Rome pillaged and built roads for their former enemies it was a means of forming economic subservience, the benefits of their culture just helped smooth over the process. Bucks break themselves in most cases.
When raiding the point is to catch people off guard. Franks and other groups who had a solid cavalry tradition did well enough against Vikings because Vikings typically did not.have cavalry. They were maritime raiders with typically exceptional infantry and single combat abilities for the time, which is why they like prior Germanic migrations were sought after for specialized roles that involved infantry and personal guards and the like.
yeah because the normans, varangian, visigoths, and vandals were known for being cowardly and fleeing at the first opportunity.
yeah the average tiktoc neopagan is a mental midget but really it only reinforces the point that these people must be ruled over and oppressed because they cannot think for themselves. even when being contrarians the average person will not understand the basic tenants of religions they pretend to follow.
>Samurai had all around elite fineness levels
Look bro we had a whole History Channel series devoted to this and it turns out the Deadliest Warrior in all of history is an IRA guy with a pipe bomb.
nigga did you just post Chud-samuraisan?
>Watching the IRA fight the Taliban in a auto junkyard at 3am
The post-actual-history pre-ice-road-pawnshops era history channel was wild
I really don't believe culture can be that good again in my lifetime.
"Birrions must commitu ritiur suicide"
>nippon has farren
>birrions must seppuku
>totar gaijin death
What was the most egregious episode of Deadliest Warrior?
>Washington beats Napoleon
>Comanche beat Mongols
>IRA beats Taliban
>Somalis beat the Cartel
>Spartan beats Samurai who beats Viking
>Theodore Roosevelt beats Lawrence of Arabia
obvious burger bias.
Roosevelt 100% wipes the floor with Lawrence it's not even a discussion
I also think Deadliest Warrior had severe burger bias because they kept making Native Americans, revolutionaries and cowboys win. They also had SWAT winning over GSG. However, they did make green berets lose to Spetsnaz, and I don't know if this is just the format of the show but they made US Army Rangers barely snatch a victory over North Koreans. I don't think anyone would call bullshit on the army wiping the floor with NK soldiers.
>they did make green berets lose to Spetsnaz
What was the final justification for that decision?
Green Berets couldn't find coke everywhere, but Spetsnaz was able to find an opiate in every country, so they won by being the only group not having withdrawals?
It was unironically Spartans, or at least Hellene Hoplites in general. The Spartans ruled over a class of noncitizen freemen that was larger than their own population, and a slave population that outnumbered them 3 to 1. Every year the Spartan youths would hunt down the strongest slaves and kill them. Look up the feats the Athenians achieved at Marathon. Look up the what Hellenes achieved in Xerxes' invasion of Hellas. Hellenic warriors were used as elite mercenaries all over the near East, including as the imperial guard of the Egyptian pharaoh and regularly employed by Persian satraps. Under Alexander they went on to form the ruling caste of the near east all the way to modern day Afghanistan. Each city-state was a eugenics project. Rome was a eugenic warrior city-state in the same vein.
>The Spartans ruled over a class of noncitizen freemen that was larger than their own population, and a slave population that outnumbered them 3 to 1.
Half starved slaves with zero knowledge of war. This was actualy very common in antiquity.
I think Athens also had a larger slave population
if I was a samurai and you were a knight: you would get wrecked, homosexual
if I was a confederate soldier and you were an egyptian charioteer: you would get wrecked, homosexual
if I was a medieval crossbowman, and you were a modern day drone operator: guess what, I would track you down using my stealth and cunning, and you would get wrecked, homosexual
do you see the pattern I have laid out here for you? checkmate
homosexual
>if I was a samurai and you were a knight: you would get wrecked, homosexual
Lol katanas cant cut armor you stupid fuck, also little nips didnt have enough brute force t o cause enough trauma to the medieval bvll. You'd get axed, and that would be it.
Katanas were more of a sidearm in practical use. Spear (yari) wad the norm for rank and file infantry. As was true for pretty much every army prior to firearms
>if I was a samurai and you were a knight: you would get wrecked, homosexual
kek, the Europeans were the tallest people on earth around that time and Japanese among the shortest. There is no way a samurai had a chance against a knight.
European knights literally walked thousands of miles into the Middle East and slaughtered entire cities there
sparta was a fuckin meme society of slavers that when push came to actual shove. they couldnt cope with evolving combat and tactics. the only reason theyre even in existence or remembered is because of other people writing about them.
Sparta dominated Greece militarily for like a century. No foreign army set foot in Laconia for like 300 years. Spartans were looked upon as the most superior infantry fighters in Greece, and Spartoi were used as judges and intermediaries by other Greeks because of their reputation for being morally incorruptible. Look up who won the Pelopennesisn War dipshit. Sparta's reputation isn't unearned, and if anything the movie 300 toned down a lot of aspects of their society, including their donination of a vastly more populous underclass
Nothing lasts forever
Fragile sandnagger anime watcher hands typed these posts
Honestly, all you need to know that the samurai were far more out of shape compared to knights was go an look at the artwork from the two periods
Not all knights were out of shape land owners, many were members of military orders like the knights Templar and would be far more devoted to training
>Knights were strong but had zero cardio.
Absolutely false. Go read any manual written by a knight and you'll see that they did a lot of cardio
>Samurai had all around elite fineness levels.
More a social class than a proper "warrior". What you said is also false anyway
>But modern operators have all the latest technology to train and boost performance.
These are fittest simply because of knowledge. People know what protein and testosterone are
>modern operators
Nobody cares about science. They are actually way below average simply because the world is too peaceful and tolerant to wheat out the weaklings among them.
>samurai
desk jockeys mostly
>knights
also mostly just fat and lazy rich people
"working knights" did a lot of "hiking", running, and "weighted calisthenics" besides weapons training.
lol
>weak among...special operators
ask me how i know you weren't a grunt in the military
i worked with scout snipers in the usmc for years those guys aren't human. if you can't out max the general fitness standards in the usmc the snipers will you drop you on the spot. seen it happen. can't mantain a 4 1/2 mile time for a couple of miles at a time every fucking morning? bye-bye
no one and i mean no one on this stupid site could make it through scout sniper training. not the school house, the field or the morning training
the 4 1/2 min mile time for a couple of miles for morning PT is definitely over-exaggarated considering average 2 mile time across SF is about 11-12 minutes
but yes i agree certain infantry, airborne and most SF dudes are absolute machines
Kneel
Knights trained by running up a mountain or dancing in full armor. You're retarded if you believe this.
Modern special forces. They work out for a living and take steroids on the DL. The steroids put them stronger than warriors of the past that didn't have access.
This. Modern militaries have different tiers of soldiers and the top tiers of the U.S. military are basically eugenically selected mutants. If they weren't they wouldn't have been selected for those higher tiers.
>Modern militaries have different tiers of soldiers and the top tiers of the U.S. military are basically eugenically selected mutants.
And more often than not on PEDs.
One day you will realize that soldiers and armies haven't really changed, just the times around them.
>soldiers and armies haven't really changed
Modern men have 1/3 the testosterone of their grandfathers and 80% of our youth isn't fit enough for military service.
fit enough for your mom tho
And the people who join the rank and file are still backwater retards with no other prospect in life
Yeah… I’m willing to bet my salary my grandfather never had his test levels checked so that’s bullshit.
And the US has always had to bring the general population up to speed fitness wise for military service. Ever heard of a “doughboy”?
Probably Roman legionaries. They had to march and set up a fortified camp every day on campaign. They also did a lot of construction work on Roman infrastructure in addition to their combat training during peace.
Only based on physical skill? In my opinion, in chronological order:
>the Akkadians/Assyrians (first organized army of note took over a bunch of shit)
>the Sea Peoples (helped cause the bronze age collapse)
>Persian Immortals (elite fighting units of the largest empire of the time)
>Spartans (meme or not, the men were basically bred for war and they won lots)
>Macedonian phalanx units (literally took over the western world at the time)
>The Huns (Atilla wasn't called the scourge of God for no reason)
>Roman legionaries ( is right, the legions are directly responsible for the glory and fall of Rome)
>Celts/Germanic etc (fought and eventually destroyed the western Roman Empire while being outclassed technologically and economically)
>Rashidun Caliphate's Armies (Took over much of the middle east very quickly)
>Crusaders (honestly the crusades were a failure but some of the armies held land/cites in very hostile territory for decades)
>Mongols (you already know why)
>Viking berserkers (dudes were crazy, there's a written account where a single one held back the entire advancing English army on a bridge by himself until they floated a guy in a barrel under the bridge and stabbed him in the balls with a pike)
>English Longbowmen (changed warfare forever and those things are hard to pull man)
>Knights of feudal lords (in popular culture for a reason, they had nothing to do but train)
>Rajput's (India's warrior class for most of the medieval period)
>Aztec Jaguars (elite forces of the most metal empire to exist)
>Swiss mercenaries (fought in like every war in the early modern period)
>Native American units (held off vastly superior forces for the better part of 2 centuries)
After this gunpowder and larger armies decrease the need for individual strength but....
>Prussia (most renowned armed forces of the time)
>Napoleon's Army (Took over Europe, helped by good leadership but they still had to execute)
>Russian Cossacks (Like the Mongols but more Russian and with guns)
>the SS (on meth, steroids and fascism, they were still feared even till the end)
>US Marines during WW2 (practically took over the entire Pacific against an extremely resilient enemy)
>Any special forces from the G7 nations (they are the tip of the spear of the largest militaries in the modern world)
I tried not to show my American bias, did I miss any?
>the SS
sorry i died laughing reading this
You are historically ignorant then.
>You are historically ignorant then.
the SS were slaughtered by a bunch of illiterate literally mongoloid peasants
they will go down in history as the most pathetic "elite" military unit in history
Like every army, it's individuals that creates the mystification of units.
oh look its the "ss were just incompetent suicidal fanatics" narrative which is just as retarded as "ss were elite aryan supermen"
they were an above average fighting force during most of the war because of good gear and training but degraded to almost nothing in the late war, much as the rest of the german army
interesting. wasn't the entire german army on meth not just the SS? and weren't the SS responsible for a bunch of gay fucking book work? i thought the fucking jerrys jerked it to their record keeping.
>napolean
yeah until santo domingo came along and chopped the soldiers french dongs off in the caribbean. they did fuck up europe relentlessly though. I've read jefferson's cabinet was terrified of Napolean mainly because of his army.
American units (held off vastly superior forces for the better part of 2 centuries)
they did NOT, they were demolished at every turn, the only thing that slowed down the settlers was the vast size of America compared with the population and infrastructure available to move further west.
Reasons why Indians weren't completely vaporized right away:
1. population, europeans just didn't need to keep going west, they just removed indians as much as was needed
2. infrastructure, similar to population they just moved indians out of the way to keep colonizing as much as was feasible with the transportation and roads they had available
3. political will, believe it or not not everyone was onboard with slaughtering a less advanced race
push came to shove, european forces obliterated indians in every fight from the 1500s onward.
All you said was fair and correct, I was more thinking of the Apaches and Sioux who at least put up a good fight with the deck stacked, against them, they loss but were still fit
good post I agree
One of the better posts on fit rn
>Macedonian phalanx units (literally took over the western world at the time)
motherfuckers carried 15 foot spears under Alex and Phil. Hiking/rucking with that fucking thing will put some meat on your fucking back. Let alone fighting on line with it
Good post. I'd argue across all of history it'd be pretty close between Spartans, Roman Legionnaires, and landed feudal knights/nobles. Niggas trained basically 24/7/365 for war.
>Warriors like the Spartans are memes.
maybe, idk, are u serious?
I know modern warriors are a meme and only attract the bottom of society. Today the news had a veterans day thing and called in a bunch of Cadets into their show, but instead of showing how muttified the USA is, they got a bunch of whites and a hapa for interview. lmfao.
its like the navy and army or whatever is a reflection of the demographics of society. in usa and canada, its so fucking diverse and shit stained its almost like we have no identity. lmfao.
>Cadets
We're talking about actual warriors and soldiers in this thread, anon.
>actual warriors and soldiers
thats even worse, this attracts the lowest is society.
Roman Legionaries.
March in heavy armor and enough supplies to feed your legion from italy to the middle east or northern africa, Kick everybodies ass. Then march/row to scotland in the same heavy armour, Kick everybodies ass. Then go home watch some criminals beat each other to death and have a massive orgy.
Second place was probably the mongolians because they had the perfect diet.
Modern Special Forces, without a doubt.
>Better quality/quantity of food
>Knows what macros are
>Better supplements (to include PEDs)
>Better gym equipment
>Better access to treatment for illnesses and injuries to get back at it
It's literally not even a competition, whether we like it or not.
ancient peoples get +100 pts for not consuming birth control pisswater, microplastics and goyslop their whole lives tho
why has testosterone plummeted the past 60 years?
>ancient peoples get +100 pts for not consuming birth control pisswater, microplastics and goyslop
Modern roidtrannies can't handle the very obvious fact that they are the mutated runts only able to exist because of the excesses of industrialization.
Modern athletes need hardcore PEDs just to come close to matching the natural abilities of the AVERAGE man of antiquity. The feminized sòyman of modernity that calls himself a "historian" copes and seethes so unfathomably hard at this fact that he'll call all ancient accounts fables before admitting that he is intensely biologically damaged and doomed to the fate of Pottenger's cats.
You're retarded and gay.
>t. seething "man" full of microplastic and birth control piss water
>why has testosterone plummeted the past 60 years?
Sedentary living
I disagree yeah okay these guys are big and they look like tan leather with shitty tattoos on it but a bunch of Zulu dyel's could run like 50 miles in a day and show up ready to rape and burn whatever was there when they got there. There's Indians with genetics that make their calves bigger than our thighs. Skinny manlets that don't need a lot of food and are okay with dying and being uncomfortable for years on end always wreck mentally ill gym monkeys that look like they know their way around the inside of a ladyboy, wearing $200,000 of gear.
why did you write a paragraph of nonsense and cope?
SF will do a 50 mi cadence march with 100 lbs on their back lol. If you think these guys can’t run 50 mi you’re delusional. That’s not even that insane for anyone who is a runner. If you think Zulus really ran 50 mi a day everyday then you’re a naive buffoon.
And their 5-10-5s are pro athlete level
If you think special forces is full of big meat monsters, then you're just picturing what the movies and propaganda have shown you.
It's impossible to make it through selection without becoming lean. You don't beat feet while humping 80+ pounds of shit for what equates to a series of ultramarathons broken up by brief periods of shift sleeping (if you get any) and still be able to maintain a 4k calorie diet. You've gotta carry all that food as well, and they wouldn't even let you take that much if you wanted to.
>It's literally not even a competition, whether we like it or not.
Modern "soldiers" are formed from degenerated modern weaklings.
Our modern Olympic gold-medalists still can't match the rowing feats of the average Olympians. Nor can our soldiers march even close to the same pace of the average Roman legion, even with PEDs.
How do you know those feats are actually real though? Do you think Athenians were not only stronger, fitter, etc. but also more honest? Considering we have PEDs and far better knowledge of nutrition and training methods than the past, and considering the modern Olympians are setting records well beyond what any of their predecessors since the late 19th C were capable of. If the supposed decline in testosterone is so severe, why do modern Olympians mog 19th and 20th C ones so hard?
but they don't? Bulgarian world records are still unbeaten and they had to change weight classes for people to make new world records in weightlifting
>The feminized sòyman of modernity that calls himself a "historian" copes and seethes so unfathomably hard at this fact that he'll call all ancient accounts fables before admitting that he is intensely biologically damaged and doomed to the fate of Pottenger's cats.
Spartans almost certainly
>killed as infant/adolescent if not brave enough
>eugenically enforced bravery, strength, agility, but also wisdom, stealth, cunning, survial
>as a kid, your right of passage was being left in the fucking wilderness to survive and kill, you were not allowed to be heard or discovered, so it's not as if they were dumb brutes
>obviously Thermopolae, Persia BTFO
>Able to build the most universally badass society in all of human history
only dyels sitting around thinking about this shit.
also, everyone wants to be fucking Rambo but no one wants to join the army.
I'm not really convinced that there was much of a difference. Most of a soldiers time on campaign both historically and in the modern day is spent walking long distances while carrying heavy equipment. That just results in lots of varying body types that are more dependent on diet and genetics while having similar physical ability.
All you need to do to LARP as a knight/samurai/spartan/delta force operator/any other historical warrior is run and sprint regularly and be able to march 10+ miles a day carrying 50+ lbs of gear. Anything else is just a bonus.
One thing I have always wondered - Spartans were notoriously starved as boys, to the point that they had to steal food. I doubt that did much for their physical development
This thread glows. Particularly as it fits with the "choose your warrior" recruitment campaign currently running.
Go back to making the names of equipment gender neutral, private sholomo.
I think at some point we all get the iridescent goo on us you know you're not immune to propaganda that whole thing unless your worldview is consciously on the lookout for stuff like that has already identified it and actively opposes it everyone's going to go a little bit at some point in the coming years.
Social justice warriors are mentally the most fit
Pic related;
>Agile enough to climb rigging
>Strong enough to haul cannon weighing tons across a pitching deck, and to do it far faster than Spaniards or the French
>Active enough to eat ~5000kcal per day without becoming spheres
>good cardio from climbing and rowing (for cutting out expeditions)
You might be right. I've thought of sailmaxxing as a workout program. Do the proper diet (salt pork, oatmeal, split peas, hardtack, grog etc) and doing sailing type exercises (rowing, rows, that rope pull machine)
Like it or not modern soldiers on steroids. It doesn’t matter how hard they trained or how good their genetics were. Nothing can touch steroids. A sad and boring truth but the truth nonetheless
im currently training to be a spec ops zogbot. people think its hard but its really not. you just have to have a high tolerance for discomfort. the standard for rucking 12 miles is 3 hours. totally doable to make it in even less time. now add in the fact that you are cold and hungry and havent slept for 24 hours. you can do it but you will feel like death. i have mad respect for anybody who is a seal or a green beret but comparing them to the elite of ancient soldiers is bs. imagine being a spartan or whatever and all you get to eat is rice and beans for months while on a march. you dont even know what a fucking germ is so 1 in 10 die from disease they didnt even know about. you finally run into the enemy and half of you die but you win. then you commander decimates you because too many guys died. then you go home after years and eat rice ane beans and live in a mudhut. ancient warriors would laugh at green berets and seals.
Allied/G4S mallcop private security special forces operators. Especially on night shift. You don't wanna fuck with them trust me.
Bin laden is 6'5"
probably scythians, avars, bulgars and varangians
i don't think any people in history come close to Austrian Jagdkommando or Norwegian Spec Ops
>nobody comes close to these special forces from countries that haven't been to war in centuries
>but are used in the most intense nato operations, which is why they never show their faces and don't wear their national uniforms once outside the country, because it would break their neutrality
You're fucking retarded
It may not be the most SwoleShack, but I put every battle throughout history through the current best practice competitive video game ranking systems to find out who was most powerful at their peak.
See attached.
median elo is 25, with 8.333 being a standard deviation.
Probably could look at whatever of these was the least advanced society and they must have relied more on fitness/strategy than technology.
>#1 is israel
>country that conquered a few mud huts and got utterly annihilated by Rome multiple times
>#2 is USA/Israel no.2
>hasn't won a war since 1812
>utterly btfo by asiatics in Vietnam
You're retarded.
people who think the US lost Vietnam are so stupid, and I'm a euro
it was a fucked up war and the north won, but it's entire existence was just to rob the reds of more resources they didn't have, good chunk of the munitions dropped on nam were old from WW2, the US just wanted to make the soviets spend more money, and US knew they didn't have it, repeat until 1991, the US is cold, idk why so many people, even Americans don't realize that.
shame about all the people lost tho
>people who think the US lost Vietnam are so stupid
>the north won
United States
>still exists
Communism
>does not
It's not a fucking football game you idiot
Vietnam is currently an US ally against communist China
China is as communist as O.P. is straight.
Vietnam is a communist country.
>b-but it stopped communism from spreading, the optics!
It didn't. Kys btw
>oi Gevalt, the nation that got curbstomped multiple times by empires 1000x it's size is really thuh winner!
>it's just thuh stats goyim
The USA's "empire" failed within the first 20 years of it's emergence after WW2 after being rotted from the inside by it's Masonic founders and their israeli masters.
Meanwhile, the Romans who are merely 'mid' in your ranking system created the largest, most stable empire in history that lasted for nearly 2000 years, whose cultural legacy still influences every aspect of modern society today.
You and your AI-ranking system are garbage. Absolutely filtered pleb
Med? I'm assuming so because of your affection towards the Roman Empire
>If Rome was so great why did it fall?
Also the United States is the most powerful single force that has ever existed, by many metrics, domestically I will agree with you that there are many problems, but when push comes to shove the US is the most powerful nation and it's not even close, we dominate through power, culture and hell, you even typed that in English, that's our language. You're on an American dominated website right now lmao
The US is a power for the ages and it's citizens are lucky enough to express discontent because in Rome, shits like you would be slaves
This post is so incomprehensibly retarded it doesn't merit a response.
>go ahead, think you're right
Because you know I'm right, bye now
The original Americans were kind of a mix between English and German people so of course they kept that ancient militarist colonizer mindset. But today's Americans are pathetic. The only reason why you guys are so powerful now is because of obsession with sales, marketing and business which skyrocketed the GDP to the moon
No, we are rich because we solved your problems, now our problems are your problems, remember that
I'm not retarded bro, I just combined the wikipedia list of battles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_battles) with trueskill (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/trueskill-ranking-system/)
None of my opinion is in that ranking.
ratings are going off that nation/country at their peak however. USA has suffered insane losses, notably the Air battle over Merklín (where USA was calculated to have a 0.007% of losing, losing 26 elo) and the Bay of Pigs Invasion (where USA lost 31 elo in a single battle).
I still can't believe israel is so high. Probably because they are the only ones with a detailed recorded history thru the bible, and had god on their side for a decent chunk of it.
Israel is high because they won against so many all at once, the six day war and yom kippur war were crazy honestly, and just shows how shit the militaries are in the middle east were and still are
The US was aiding them, but not with top of the line tech or anything, not even close to the extent we are now, the israelites back then fought for that shit themselves, they kept their holy land, and for that, they have my respect and many will cope just by me typing that.
>And everyone now knows after reading the latest literature in the field is that they had dad bods
What? Source
ObjectivicallyTurk Chads
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Maritsa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ming_Sha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumu_Crisis
The spartans, unironically, they were a society of autistic min maxers who dedicated their entire existence to killing people and nothing else.
Vikangs for example were farmers and fishermen who raided random villages as a side hustle and samurai were bureaucrats similar to modern day IT guys who lift on the side
Fitness is suitability towards a task. if you go by overall effectiveness, the body type of whoever is is remotely controlling drone strike equipment is the most fit.
>And everyone now knows after reading the latest literature in the field is that they had dad bods
lol ok bud
probably modern SOF considering they are able to carry highest equipment load (up to 100lbs), have the most diverse fitness training (running, crossfit, weights, calisthenics, swimming, martial arts) and nutritrition/medicine on point
Future cyborg special ops
his name was xenophon
anything involved in scouting/gorilla warfare
>any chronicler writing about vikings
>"holy moly, these guys are JACKED and handsome as shit"
>"our women's chastity is threatened by their height and superior grooming"
Yeah I'm gonna go with the vikangz
Dont know about most /fit.....
But I'll go with Husseits for this one , just because my broski love them and ranted me about them , also I like Jan Zizka honestly for some reason(mostly about the quote of his enemies...it goes with me in this life to some point.)
Modern sof for sure
If you don’t think it’s modern elite forces then you’re an actual fucking retard. These guys use exogenous hormones and have gyms that make D1 schools and pro teams look like high school locker rooms, with best nutritionists and trainers money can buy to boot. Obviously, not all of them will be fit but in general they are a lot fitter than humans have ever fucking been.
I’ve actually thought about and researched this a lot;
>Ancient Greece/Sparta
They were all like 130lbs and 5’4, fit but tiny. They did work out all day though. Their marches weren’t very quick and almost none of them were professional soldiers.
>Rome
Legionaries were probably less fit than Greeks, but more disciplined. Their marches were better, but gear was lighter than future troops (Greeks carried like no gear)
>Middle ages/Knights
Poor diet, they were probably fairly jacked on the level of Greeks or Romans though.
>Napoleonic soldiers
French Republic soldiers were leaps and bounds better than the average nation back during that era due to their marching speed, training, and trustworthiness (the average soldier back then was a press ganged criminal that would run away at the first chance)
>modern troops
I have to say I think modern western troops are unparalleled historically. This will cause a lot of seethe, but let me explain why;
>pft standards
Most combat arms fags are running sub 20 three miles, consider that about a century ago the world record 5k was like 17 min, I could have unironically btfo of the Olympics back then on multiple events.
>matching capability
I have legitimately carried 175 lbs of gear through steep mountains over 20 miles, I weighed less than my gear. In all of history no army has ever carried that much gear that distance. I know for a fact I would btfo out of Napoleon’s infantry (the best known to history since Alexander the Great, and they were on opium) who were doing 20 miles with like 50lbs of gear at best.
>I was able to stay jacked af while doing this
Quite simply I’m definitely stronger physically than my ancestors and was repping 225x10x3 on bench and 300x10x3 on squat while I was doing all the above, all natty.
And I’m not even an SF fag, I was just a marine grunt crayon eater.
That being said, this was back in the early to late 00’s and the military is gay as AIDS now, so I don’t know anymore.
Oh, just to be clear;
My gear weighed more than me at 175 when I was a little fag, I EAS’d at 190 and jacked af thanks to a MEU
>Knights were strong but had zero cardi
This isn't factual, I don't think any of this is.
Let's go to the source of our power. The milk drinkers.
Indo Europeans.
Probably modern special forces, but with that being said the standards for the typical grunt is far lower than what would be expected from the typical legionnairee. And with that being said I'm sure they'd be way tougher than any modern soldier shooting at towel heads from a mile away, riding around in armored vehicles and getting fed nutrient rich food 3 times a day.
As an ancient or medieval soldier you marched everywhere, you got food - sometimes. Often you ate what you could forage or steal. Your whole career was likely to be just being a soldier forever, roman legionnaires served for like 20+ years. And in a hand to hand fight you can bet that they would destroy any navy seal who thinks their super tactical knife skills will stop a roman with a gladius who drills with it every day.
And on second thought a WW2 soldier from pretty much any nation is far better than what we have today. Those guys were fucking hard as nails, there's a reason that they hold all the records for confirmed kills and aerial dogfights.
The ones that survived and brought back honours are the very small minority. Most WW2 soldiers either died or sat in the trenches.
Yeah but that's every almost war tbf
True, however there is a difference between a warrior and a man participating in a war and this is often ignored in the many retarded discussions on this board.
modern special forces get minimal if any knife training. knifing isnt the point if you have a gun. being quiet is a moot point because they can just request a quieter gun and the government will spend millions getting them. just look at the mk23 offensive handgun. (very sexu tbh) maybe early rangers of the 60s and 70s who got an ungodly amount of bayonets assault course training would stand a chance.
>As an ancient or medieval soldier you marched everywhere, you got food - sometimes. Often you ate what you could forage or steal.
its not like you didnt carry food with you. foraging and stealing food was only necessary if you didnt liberate cattle or fish from the locals and were fighting in a long enough campaign. you have to remember that most of the legion's were made of of volatile plebs who would throw a fit and desert if they werent fed, paid, or promised plunder.
samurai had trash fitness levels wtf lol. The most fit warriors were probably vikings
this tbh.
>rows in shifts for several hours to make landfall in gaul
>marches for miles to find the nearest monestary
>gets cardio chasing down monks and raping women
>get big delts from stabbing people with your spear all day
>big biceps from carrying your shield all day.
>big legs from marching with your armor and loading your plunder back onto your boat
>then you have to row back home with it
most SwoleShack by far. nobody else comes close except for later norman armies and knights who were professional soldiers who constantly trained to grapple and throw other fully armored knights.
Like
said, vikings have been described as big and strong since they started traveling. They didn't write about themselves, other cultures decided to depict them that way, whether it was muslims, anglo-saxons, french, byzantine, whatever.
MACV-SOG unironically. Special forces trained by WW2/Korean vets who in turn were trained by WW1 vets. Since then we have gone too many generations without seasoned fighters training the next generation.
I can tell you for sure it's not the Americans, even back when I was an officer cadet (UK) we used to run circles around their marines, nowadays they don't even try to out-do us anymore the lard arses.
UK SRR guys are the ones that score highest on the various fitness tests though
t.british medic, I see the various fitness results
Civilizations with standing armies are all fine and well but everybody's gangsta (so to speak) til the horse archers show up. Our ancestors got fucking owned every time those guys showed up. They're simply built different. Mongols, Huns, Jerchens, etc probably have the best K/D of any military units in history.
>our ancestors
>mongols never pushed past poland
>huns were the children of exiled Germanic witches and demons so unfair advantage
>jerchens only ever fought koreans
also unrelated to how SwoleShack they were but considering most of them were asiatics the answer is not very.
Nope. Your settled white ass is getting WHOOPED by nomads every time
>every time
He just brought up examples of times they didn't do you know what words are
Horse archers have never been dominant in Europe. Yes they fucked up Russia a little bit but who hasn't. Europeans have been fighting each other constantly since the dawn of time and if horse archers truly were some sort of unstoppable unit then Europeans would have utilized it and perfected it.