What warrior race will in a fight out of all the ones listed please choose???

Question

Samurai vs Native American
Samurai vs Viking
Samurai vs knight
Ninja vs spartan
Samurai vs barbarian
Samurai vs spainish conquistador

Who would win out of all those? and explain why?

Answer 1

Vikings.

And Chuck Norris.

Unless he was fighting a Viking.

Then just Vikings.

Answer 2

An interesting question, but the main problem with it is that they groups weren't all after the same thing. Ninja and Samurai were different in that the first were into assassination while the second was into rule of government. The Vikings and the barbarians could be the same people, depending on who you ask and the barbarians, lets say the Goths or Visigoths for example, were fighting in huge numbers that the Ninja would not be familiar with.

Therefore, if I were to choose,
for assassination, the Ninja
for government, the Samurai
for brief invasion, the Vikings
for mass invasion in order to gain land to plant towns and villages on, the barbarians ...

Answer 3

These are not good questions to ask, because there are too many variables that make it inconclusive to answer, the least of which being the fact that modern misconceptions tend to attract stereotypes.

For example:

the primary weapon of a Samurai was his spear and his bow. The Katana was a secondary weapon and did not rise to prominence until the cult of the sword developed during the peaceful Tokugawa shogunate.

the Strength of the Spartan laid in his ability to maintain a phalanx. Hoplites were vulnerable up close or if the phalanx collapsed. Roman legionaries, who trained exclusively in the sword, consistently hacked hoplites to pieces when they were able to get up close.

the term barbarian is too loose to define. Is it a Gothic warrior that crushed the Romans at Adrianople? Was it a feared Frankish axe-thrower? A horse mounted Hunnic bowman? Scottish Highlander? Each one of these had vastly different fighting styles. A viking, for example, was a raider, so he would have been more prepared to travel lightly as he was only fighting lightly defended towns, not going into pitched battles against professional armies. In the ancient era, some of the most feared pirates and raiders were utterly crushed when they attempted to face a Roman legion, which would have been well trained and disciplined, and heavily armed and armored.

The term knight also applies to a myriad types of troops. Roman knights (called equestrians) fought as part of the Alae vexillation, wore a muscled cuirass, rode a horse, and carried a spear. Norman knights that helped William conquer the Anglo-Saxons in Britain wore a Chainmail coat and carried a kite shield. Renaissance knights took to the field in extraordinarily thick armor, in a last ditch, unsuccessful effort to stop bullets.

Conquistadors existed during the waning years of the knight. Realizing the utter uselessness of armor against bullets, he would have abandoned it for maybe a helmet and a breastplate. His weapon would have been a halbert. Maybe a pistol if he were travelling alone. But like the Spartan, his strength would have laid in the men next to him. His pistol would have given him an advantage, but it was only one shot, and once expended, he would have been at a huge disadvantage against a more heavily armored foe.

Ninjas are the worst perpetrators of this. Real ninjas wore civilian clothing and used gardening tools as weapons in order to remain concealed. A ninja would have fled before a fully armed and armored Samurai. Much of the mystique of a ninja comes from three sources:
A: folklore. Ninjas, being assassins, naturally evoked fear in the common folk, who weaved stories about their supernatural powers and their ability to take on multiple opponents with ease. The ninjas, knowing that fear is an effective tool in an assassin's arsenel, naturally fostered these feelings.
B: Kabuki theatres. Kabuki theaters are well known for being austere. They had a black curtain background, and props laying on the ground, which would be moved by men who wore as much black as possible, to blend with the black curtain. People still saw them, but pretended that they weren't there. Naturally, parallels between the prop movers and the ninja were made, until we have the modern perception of a ninja being an unseen warrior who wore all black.
C: The Hashashyun. These were a feared sect of middle eastern killers, where the west gets its word "assassin". They lived in a fortress monastery, had elaborate rituals, fought suicidally with twin daggers, scaled walls, all the things we would traditionally think of as being a ninja. Their order was destroyed by the Mongols in the late Renaissance period.

this question is not a matter of historical accuracy. It is a matter of the rule-of-cool. Pick the stereotype you like, they win, hands down. Because these things are build mostly on modern preconceptions and stereotypes, not historical accuracy.

Answer 4

The Spanish Conquistador is likely the only one with a gun so they have that advantage. The also have armor so they might take more damage.