Who would win, cowboys (old west style) or vikings (buff mytholgical norse style)?

Oh, and logic doesn't apply in this thread.

Vikings. They have ceremonial horned helmets. Horned Helments > Cowboy Hats.

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Cowboys. They have six shooters, and more importantly, bandanas.

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Winchesters and Shotguns > Vikings

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Ah yes, but you're forgetting, these are SAVAGE NORSE vikings! Not merely human but SUPERHUMAN.

While taking a piss, I was thinking about this. No joke.

In my opinion, the armor and berserker mentality of the Vikings would compensate for cowboy firearms, allowing the Viking to hack, slash, rape, crush, burn, pillage, smash, ram, drive, slam, wham, and chop the opposition.

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Cowboys have the Gatlin Gun; sure, it may be Army issue, but who's to say they didn't raid a federal armory?

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There were some vikings that battled naked though. A winchester would blow their dirty bits off easy.

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Vikings, they would summon loki or hel to protect them against tiny shards of metal... and they talk funny

Viking Speak > *

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I think that if you're going to fight, you should look good doing it. Cowboys are much more stylish than Vikings, because they have dusters and, more importantly, revolvers (my favorite and the most stylish type of gun there is). Style doesn't win the battle though. The Vikings have the warrior mentality. They're like the Black Knight, cut off their arms and legs, and they'll still try to bite your kneecaps off.

I'm cheering for the Cowboys, but I have to say that the Vikings have the advantage.

Oh yeah, the Vikings have axes, which is my favorite close range weapon. I can't decide between revolvers and axes.

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I vote for the teletubbies

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Cowboys. Not only because they have guns, but they have dynamite and there have been more movies about cowboys, thus there would be more cowboys

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It depends on who the cowboys are. I suppose all the folkes on Bonanza could team up with Clint Eastwood and take down a good bit a' Viking butt, but in the end the Vikings would probably win simply because they'd keep fighting after you ripped off there arms, legs, head, and wang. Eat that Clint Eastwood. (no pun intended)

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But the cowboys would have the likes of John Wayne and all the other cowboys that never, ever got hurt. Also, real life cowboys like Wyatt Earp (and family), Doc Holiday, Billy the Kid, etc would be too much to handle

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Screw Clint Eastwood. Doc Holiday's where it's at

(I had Wyatt Earp up there at first, but then I remembered Val Kilmer in Tombstone and decided Holiday takes the cake )

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SUMMON THE BIG GNOME!

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Vikings!

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Vikings would win, they have balls the size of melons while cowboys' nuts are pathetic in comparison

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Vikings. Trust me on this one. Just look at our resident Viking, Krig. He could definately take on any cowboy.

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If a viking went into berserker mode, you could shoot him, and he still wouldn't stop attacking! Therefore, vikings would win!

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You're all wrong, the Ninjas would win! They'd wait until the battle started, and then quietly slit everyone's throat!

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but ninjas always win, by default, because they're ninjas. But i think Vikings would kick the cowboys asses.... axes dont require ammunition... by the way... where is this fight taking place, they come from very different environments.

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Flaming Ninjas own Normal Ninjas.

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Oh please, ninjas suck. A viking or even a samarai could take them.
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Ninjas never win. They always go down in one hit, and if there's a group of ninjas they'll take turns fighting, waiting for whichever ninja is currently fighting to be killed. And they rarely do any damage.

Cowboys take too long to fight. They just stand there waiting dramatically for their opponents to grab their guns. Since vikings don't have guns, the cowboys will just stand there until they are disemboweled.

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But what about... Ninja Pirates?

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Depends what side the author's on...

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While the cowboys had the technological advantage, they have the distinct disadvantage of not, in fact, being warriors. They're ranch hands, or maybe a local town sherrif at best. Which means they ride horses a lot, and might even be a crack shot with a pistol, but they have absolutely no training in the art of war.

The Vikings, on the other hand, lived for war. Their entire society and religion was based around it. They fought each other, they fought their neighbors, they even went on raids to fight people in distant countries. Suffice it to say they'd had a little bit of practice in battle.

It would be a pretty close fight, though. The gun is a powerful weapon, and the cowboys would surely gun down great numbers of their opponents before the Vikings got close enough to them to fight. The Vikings would undoubtedly think that these thunder-weapons were some sort of dark sorcery, but their warrior ethos and culture of personal honour and courage in battle would mean they wouldn't flee. Once the Vikings got in close, the fight would be all over. They'd tear the cowboys apart ruthlessly. The cowboys would be terrified, not being used to the deadly ferocity of hand-to-hand sword and axe combat.

So in conclusion, Vikings rule.

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But it didn't teach us that guns pwn axes. So, Vikings win.

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But on occasion there were also cowgirls, they could wipe entire nations in a flash.

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well i vote for Captin Jack Sporrow(sp)

You would!

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