Quinzy's Mayan Warrior(1/12/2008)

[Blue Monkey]

The Aztecs called the sword a Macuahuitl (hand stick) and it could decapitate a horse, or so it was claimed. The blades were obsidian, or so I'd read. I'm guessing they didn't work as well on Conquistador cuirasses as on horsie necks.

Obsidian vs. Gunpowder. Aztecs wore armor (if not metal); they'd have been smart enough to target the exposed bits.

Yeah. You'd think. Must not have worked very well though since the Spanish had so few men and still won out despite disease and obsidian. At least Cortez could count on not losing many men to desertion!

I guess my post was too brief. the point is that, while the Aztecs were smart enough not to hammer away at metal with glass, (never before seen) guns beat swords for range & "pucker factor".

 

[Quinzy]

Atlatl's were, beyond a doubt, completely lethal to the Spaniards however. They could fire down from the hilltops down on to the Conquistadors

 

[Stormrage]

Not to mention the specially trained Carnivorous Llamas/Hoplites.

 

[Quinzy]

With straight-edged swords or curved?

 

[Spacer One]

Oh goodness...keep an eye out for those carnivorous llamas...not only are they mean...they spit!

 

[Virote_Considon]

The pre-Columbian Americans did not actually ride the carnivorous llamas, though, they rode their specially domesticated Zebras.

 

[Stormrage]

Swords? Riders? No! Historic evidence!

 

[odintheking]

Great job, man. Er, men. Nice design!

 

[Blue Monkey]

The Nazca lines were training grounds for complex battlefield maneuvers. Have you ever tried getting carnivorous llamas & herbivore zebras to turn in synchrony? That whole lama thing definitely proves that the Incans were hooked up with the Agarthans not the "ancient astronauts".