08-06-2006, 05:49 PM
Human nature is what it is....many of us flee others fight to the bitter end...every society (or armies) has elments of both. We may all be a part of a unit or a whole, but ultimately each any everyone of us is an individual. To say that Samurai were braver or nobler or Romans more fierce or tenacious is really a mute point. All we can do is compare and research and maybe in the end we'll come out a tad wiser as a result.
Now, don't get me wrong, each had their advantages and deficiencies. Like I said in a previous post I'd see the perfect soldier as the soldier with the characteristics of Roman and Samurai within them.
Now, don't get me wrong, each had their advantages and deficiencies. Like I said in a previous post I'd see the perfect soldier as the soldier with the characteristics of Roman and Samurai within them.
aka: Julio Peña
Quote:"audaces Fortuna iuvat"- shouted by Turnus in Virgil\'s Aeneid in book X just before he is utterly destroyed by Aeneas\' Trojans.