Spanish Musketeers VS Giant Crabs- who wins? folklore?

Question

Fantasy Faceoff II, Round 11- a unit of Tercio Musketeers meet a swarm of Giant Crabs in pitched battle- who wins, and why?

Answer 1

From the last one I asked: if the battleground was neutral then I chose Minotaurs, and if we had our pick of terrain then I chose Merry Men. Since my vote was not counted as a Minotaur, I can therefore logically assume I have my pick of the terrain.

So; the Musketeers are camped on the beach waiting to intercept an English ship full of saboteurs and spies when they notice that the sand all around them is moving as a group of hungry giant crabs moves in for the kill. In this case the Musketeers do not have time to prepare firearms, but one or two of them may get off a wheellock or flintlock shot or two before the crabs close.
The bullets do little real damage, and out come the rapiers and main gauches (short side daggers). Now a rapier is a thin bladed sword, light and flexible, designed mainly for penetrative attacks such as lightning quick thrusts through the ribs. (Trust me on this - I sometimes do a cavalier persona, so there is a rapier and main gauche on the wall behind me.) The rapier may be sharp along the edges, but is not designed to hold that edge against any type of armor - by the Musketeers time armor was mostly obsolete due to the use of firearm and cannon, so weapons were not designed with armor in mind.
The Crabs have natural armor in the form of their carapace, and their proportionate strength when applied in their claws is enough to snip off a man's head, arm, or leg, or even to cut him in half. They scuttle around fast, and are very hard to hit for any serious damage as the rapiers mainly bounce and slide off their shells. (The Musketeers are soldiers, not chefs, and even though they can target the softer areas they still don't know enough about the crab's anatomy to thrust their rapiers to vital areas.) A few crabs may go down, esp. if the Musketeers can blind one, but I suspect the crab casualty rate would be no higher than 10 - 15%.
Within minutes the hapless Musketeers would be lying in the sand, missing limbs and heads, some still screaming in terror and agony as the crabs drag them all into the water, taking their dinner home to enjoy at their leisure.
Winner: Giant Crabs
Advantage: natural armor, incredible strength, and natural weaponry
Loser: Musketeers
Disadvantage: wrong weapons for the job, ignorance of opponent's physiology.

Answer 2

Ok,

The Musketeers sail towards an .... island, they reach the shores and are confronted by a swarm of Giant Crabs.

The Musketeers draw their swords and swing them about swishing the air and shouting one for all and all for one (in Spanish though).

The Giant Crabs (4 - 7 ft tall, 8 - 14ft wide, 1 ton +, shell 3 inches thick) start to bubble with rage (bubbling is a defence mechanism in crabs). A mid sized crab scuttles over to a palm tree and snaps the tree with it's mighty pincer attack. The tree falls almost hitting a Musketeer.

The Musketeers are terrified yet they wonder what would a Giant Crab taste like so they get into tight formation and thrust, step, thrust step... They manage only to scrape a few crabs and blind one of the poor creaures. The musketeers approach the dying creature and stab it between the joints, while this is happening all the Giant Crabs are climbing on each others backs (this is the Zero-Formation). The musketeers are cocky from their small victory and think nothing of this crabby tower, yet when they approach the crabs topple themselves and come crashing down on the hapless Musketeers.

The Musketeers are now burried in the sand up to their heads, the crabs now be-head them.

Giant Crabs!

Answer 3

A different scenario...The musketeers go to their usual prostitute...they catch not just crabs, like you say giant crabs! the crabs eat the musketeers genitals, the musketeers slowly bleed to death leaving the giant crabs to starve. They all die and so the moral of the story is...safe sex saves lives!!