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Ming warriors, the merciless 14th
century weapons innovators who launched
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China's greatest dynasty.
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Musketeers, the king's ruthless personal
guard, and fierce defenders of France's
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borders.
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Who is deadliest?
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To find out, our world -class fighters
are testing history's most lethal
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weapons.
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Using 21st century science, we'll see
what happens when the two warriors go
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-to -toe.
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No rules, no safety, no mercy.
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It's a duel to the death to decide who
is the deadliest warrior.
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Welcome to the battle zone.
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Here,
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a team of scientists, trauma doctors,
and weapons experts.
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will test their deadly arsenal of true
early masters of black powder weapons.
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The Ming warriors, military masters from
the late Middle Ages, whose martial
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arts skills and innovative weaponry
launched China's greatest empire, the
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Dynasty, versus the French musketeers,
17th century special forces,
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and battle -hardened killers.
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who pioneered that gut -busting firearm
that inspired their name.
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Lead biomedical scientist Jeff Damelin
will supervise the weapons testing. I
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love this matchup. We've got black
powder weapons, we've got blades. I've
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bring all my tools to the table.
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ER physician Armand Dorian will examine
the gruesome injuries to evaluate their
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deadliness. The Musketeers are
legendary, and the Ming Warriors, they
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an unbelievable empire. And I'm going to
be very interested in seeing how they
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match up against the Musketeers.
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Computer whiz Max Geiger will track all
the test results and input the data into
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a simulation program, generating a five
-on -five squad battle.
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Now, these warriors are interesting
because they fit in that area in history
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when gunpowder was beginning to rise
prominently.
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The simulator will generate a blow -by
-blow battle to the death.
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The winner will be the deadliest
warrior.
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The musketeers' weapons will be
brandished by French native Xavier
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Xavier served in the French Foreign
Legion and is a specialist in sword
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fighting. So everybody was afraid of the
musketeers. They were the elite
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bodyguard of the King of France.
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Also fighting for the Musketeers, Luke
LaFontaine.
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Luke is a French combat historian and
master swordsman. Musketeers fought 24
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hours a day. You developed your
reputation on how many men you killed.
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Musketeers were formed in 1622, when the
American colonies were just being
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established.
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A select company of only 200 men.
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They were armed with the best weapons of
their day by King Louis XIII and led
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French armies against persistent
invaders.
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Europe was full of very strong armies.
They wanted to conquer France. So
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continuously we have to fight.
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to make them leave. We fought the
British, we fought the Spanish, we
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Belgian, the Swiss, we're the top
fighters in Europe.
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The musketeers were the special forces
of the 17th century. The specialized
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units were key in developing the borders
of modern -day France.
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The most powerful armies in Europe
couldn't stop the musketeers, so aha,
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Ming warriors are going to do that.
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Our musketeer team is confident, but
they're facing equally certain
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Experts on the Ming warrior.
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A specialist on Chinese classical
weapons.
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Beijing native Jonathan Vizhong Wang.
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A world champion in advanced Tai Chi and
Kung Fu.
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The musketeers have no comparison to the
Ming. They will kill all the musketeers
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without any mercy.
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A top competitor in the Chinese martial
art of Wushu.
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Philip Dang.
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He's a specialist in Chinese spears and
swords.
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At the peak of the Ming Dynasty, they
controlled territory 12 times the size
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France. The small mucketeer army is not
going to be able to take out such a
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disciplined and skilled army such as the
Ming.
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In the late 1300s, the Ming Dynasty
overthrew the mighty Yuan Dynasty
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Genghis Khan.
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They built many of China's most lasting
landmarks. including the Great War.
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Over their 300 -year reign, they also
raised a powerful navy and a million
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army.
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The Ming army was huge.
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It reached from 1 .2 million to 3
million. Once the Ming conquered
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a country, they would kill all the
military personnel and cut off their
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The more ears you collect, the better
fighter you are.
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It's a brutal battle between the East
and the West.
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My predestined prediction goes to the
Musketeer. I think they bring all the
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aspects of the game. They come from
nobility, have a lot of finance, they
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the best weapons, and finally they're
able to bring gunpowder to a point where
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it's actually very accurate and useful.
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For a Ming warrior, we see some of the
earliest innovations in using gunpowder,
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and I think that sort of innovation will
favor the Ming warrior.
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The Ming kick off the showdown with a
groundbreaking weapon that combined the
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Chinese invention of gunpowder with long
-range killing power.
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The Nest of Bees rocket battery.
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32 flying arrows of death in a single
shot.
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This here is the Nest of Bees.
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Oh, nice.
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It's kind of like a bottle rocket,
except a lot, lot larger, a lot
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It's pretty much the first rocket used.
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Ever in warfare, how did Ming weapons
engineers become rocket fighters?
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Ming Dynasty warriors spent centuries of
time to develop and perfect this weapon
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of mass destruction.
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The Ming wrapped gunpowder in paper,
which was then bound to an arrow.
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A fuse made it deadly.
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The rocket engine will explode, and this
baby is going to fly 100 to 500 yards
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far.
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Determine how fast these rockets will
fly.
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A single arrow will be fired at a target
200 feet downrange.
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What I'm trying to do here is capture
the Rockefeller arrow passing this. And
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what I can get with a known frame rate
on the high speed and a known distance
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the frame, I can get the velocity at the
point of impact.
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On target. Ready to go.
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That was beautiful.
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It was a little high, actually.
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227 miles per hour. That's almost double
the speed of a traditional bow and
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arrow. So putting a rocket on an arrow
works as far as speed is concerned.
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But I have to admit, you sacrificed
accuracy.
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Are you worried about that?
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We got 32 of those killers at once.
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Let's do a full test on the net.
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Take a look over there. A battalion of
men with one commander on horseback.
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That's your primary target.
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You ready to get started? Yeah.
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Fire it up.
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There's absolutely no question. You have
a nest of bees flying at you, three,
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two of these, rocket -propelled arrows
coming at you. It's going to be
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absolutely terrifying.
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These guys are unscathed, though, huh?
Yeah, yeah. It's like he's untouched.
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And the primary target, too, seems to be
unscathed. I mean, this is pretty
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impressive. It's hitting exactly,
randomly, but exactly where you want to
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kill. Right in the left chest, right
where that heart is.
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Take a look how deep this is.
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That. Pretty deep. That's just about
right where that rocket was.
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That is enough to hit the heart and
kill. Let's look back here. Look at
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Dead center chest.
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Again, I mean, it's like either a
complete miss or a kill.
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So the random aspect of this is very
apparent.
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Out of the 32 arrows, six hit targets.
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Three of them kill shots.
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So what do we got here? We got 17 guys.
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Six hits. I think the thing here is that
unpredictable isn't a synonym for
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dangerous. It's a synonym for
unreliable. Next time Louis XIII needs a
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celebration and wants fireworks, we'll
call these guys. That's a good weapon
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that. You think that's a joke? Hit six
men.
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Couple them in the face. You're talking
about musketeers. That's not going to
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impress us. Yeah, it doesn't impress you
until you get one stuck in your face.
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Coming up, the musketeers take aim with
their signature weapon.
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Ming. Or musketeer?
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Who will be that deadliest warrior?
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Back in the fight club.
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It's East versus West.
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The ingenious Chinese warriors from the
Ming army against France's highly
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trained and deadly fighting force.
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French musketeers lived on the edge. The
more people you killed, you shot up in
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the ranks.
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The musketeers were the elite French
military of their time. So don't let
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clothes fool you. There's a lot of lace,
a lot of velvet, and feathers in your
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hats. You think rock stars get a lot of
women? You have no idea the musketeers'
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reputation for pulling in the ladies and
being badasses.
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Everyone walking down the street was
carrying four feet of steel.
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They were itching to use that steel to
prove themselves as a man.
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Over a 180 -year period, 40 ,000 French
nobles were lost in private duels.
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A lot of that was caused by musketeers
killing other guys.
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But our Ming experts believe their
warriors are deadlier.
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The Ming warriors were physically
stronger.
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They had better weapons.
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And they had the military training
needed to take out any enemy they faced.
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The Ming soldiers were very innovative
and very creative. They have hundreds of
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weapons. And also they have poisonous
gas heated inside of grenades.
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No one's seen that before.
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The enemies did not expect that. The
Ming mentality was kind of like
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warfare. The enemy would get taken down
slowly.
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The Ming warriors launch into battle
with the Nest of Bees rocket battery,
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mechanical landmine, the three -barrel
pole gun, and the Dao sword.
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The musketeers retaliate with their own
killer cash.
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The blintlock musket, the grenade, the
wheelock pistol, and the rapier sword
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and main ghost dagger.
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The Ming's long -range weapon, the Nest
of Bees, was deadly.
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but not completely accurate.
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The musketeers feel they have a weapon
that is far deadlier.
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The early flintlock mechanism musket was
the highest development of the musket
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at that time. The musket.
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A bone -shattering blaster that punches
huge caliber holes into its victims.
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What you have here is an early 17th
century musket, but the flintlock
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is what makes it state of the art.
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You could get about three shots in a
minute with this musket. It's a 75
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bore musket. 75 -caliber? Yeah. That's
the largest we've seen on this show yet.
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Champ will use a chronometer to measure
the speed of the musket's bullet.
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Three, two, one, fire!
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625 feet per second, Mac.
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That's about a quarter speed of modern
firearms. But well done, man.
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At 426 miles per hour, the musket is
almost twice as fast as the Nest of Bees
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arrow.
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To test the lethality and accuracy of
the musket, a ballistics gel torso is
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up at 50 feet.
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Luke will have one minute to inflict as
much damage as possible.
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I want to see two rounds in the chest,
one to the head.
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Are you ready?
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Ready! Eyes and ears, boys.
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On three, two...
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One! Fire!
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Oh!
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Nice. A damaged shot, but it takes Luke
15 to 20 seconds to reload his muscles.
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Second shot!
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Third shot! This is the head shot!
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Oh! Yeah!
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Okay, so let's take a look at actual
trauma here. First shot, almost dead
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in the chest, and this is a kill shot in
and of itself because of location.
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You're hitting the superior vena cava,
the biggest vessel that comes down,
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basically rupturing that, and if you
look at the back, coming out the
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and you have a beautifully lit track
here of the blood as the bullet comes
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Okay, let's take a look at the placement
of the second one. This thing is going
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to bleed inside that chest cavity, and
it's going to be a kill, but it's going
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to be a delayed kill. We're talking
minutes to perhaps hours.
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With the third and final shot, you hit
the cheekbone, the zygoma here. You
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fracture that.
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It's not an instant kill, but having
said that, there's a very good chance
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inside that brain there's going to be a
hemorrhage, a bleed, and he's going to
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die from that.
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Look, it took one minute to get three
shots off. One of them is actually...
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A definite kill. The other two, a maybe
kill. And it's a single standing target.
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You see the accuracy of this weapon. You
see the damage that it does.
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Our net to beat is 32 shots.
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Even just a small percentage of those
that hits you, you're gone.
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Boom. Bottom line, after your little
musketeer starts reloading for his
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shot, he's going to have a Ming warrior
right in his face ready to kill him.
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Our specialty is close quarters combat.
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So the closer you are, bring it on.
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Invented in France.
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The bayonet was first used by the
musketeers for close quarters combat and
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accounted for a third of all casualties
on the battlefield.
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Our experts disagree on which of these
black powder weapons is deadlier.
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The Nesta B, 500 yards.
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It got six hits.
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Most of those were killed.
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A lot of firepower behind that. The
musket was accurate, but its accuracy
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I guarantee you, die out after 80 feet.
So I got to go with the weapon that was
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actually truly a long -range weapon. I
got to give it to the Nesta B.
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You know, in an army -on -army fight, if
you had an entire battalion of guys
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carrying these and using them against
your enemy, that could do something, but
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third of the time isn't enough of a
bite.
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You know, I tend to agree, Max. Even
though it was limited and compared to
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nest of bees, the musket does have quite
a long range.
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And it does the damage when it hits. I'm
giving my edge to the musket.
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For long -range weapons, the edge goes
to the French musketeers for the musket.
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Coming up, our experts face off in an
explosive battle.
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Back at the Fight Club, a savage
showdown is
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pitting the East against the West to see
who is the deadliest warrior.
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French Musketeers.
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The select corps of noblemen who took on
the country's most hazardous military
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missions.
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Or the Ming warriors.
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Brutal Chinese soldiers whose military
might established a dynasty that stood
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undefeated for three centuries.
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The Ming bring an X -Factor to this
fight. A deep grounding in martial arts.
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The Ming excelled in two schools of Kung
Fu.
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Speedy and powerful Shaolin.
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and a more flowing and agile wudang.
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The Ming knew how to be combative with
hands. They knew how to kick. They knew
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how to take down. Basically, it's
military training, so it's very
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hard on the body, so they were very
tough.
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The Ming are going to have an obvious
advantage in combative attack and
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technique. The musketeers have their own
X -Factor, a royal bloodline.
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The musketeers at Maison du Roy were
royalty.
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In order to get in, you had to have some
form of noble line in your family.
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You're talking about someone who's
already had years of personal
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lessons and swordsmanship lessons
because that was what the nobility did.
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Ming believed they have a black powder
invention that could blow away a small
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army of nobility.
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The Mechanical Landmine, an underground
network of bombs.
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Hopped with a weapons treasure trove to
attract enemy.
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Translated, this weapon means
underground sky -soaring thunder.
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This is a booby trap landmine. It's one
of the earliest ever used in warfare.
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On top of the hill will be treasures
that bait and draw the enemy in.
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So in this case, a weapons cache.
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Exactly.
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Attached to the bait.
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The lid of a pot containing smoldering
charcoal.
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When the lid was raised, a lever would
drop a fuse to the embers, igniting it.
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The fuse was connected to other pots
filled with gunpowder.
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When the enemy took the bait...
Underneath this mound here, you'll have
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channels with black powder going to
dozens of these pots.
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So one trigger, but a whole network of
landmines. Exactly.
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The frag is actually the clay pots.
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When those explode, anyone standing
within about a 15, 20 -foot radius is
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basically destroyed.
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Philip demonstrates the landmine's
trigger mechanism.
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Oh, baby.
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Test its lethality.
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Jeff sets up four musketeer targets
wearing shock patches to measure the
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I see some shock patches. Oh, we got a
kill, number one.
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Okay, look, man, there's body parts all
over the place. I mean, you've got arms
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dismembered. This guy's body is cut in
half.
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Look at this.
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classic landmine injury, missing leg,
and from the shock patch, kills
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well. Double dead, this guy.
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I mean, arms are strewn. Look at the
blood pattern all over him.
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There's nothing left of this guy.
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Oh, dude.
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Besides blood and guts.
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This could be a game changer.
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Four kills on this one.
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But the French musketeers have an
explosive they believe is even more
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The Grenade.
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A cast -iron bomb filled with
projectiles of death.
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The musketeers stuffed these grenades
with sharp nails and gunpowder. So
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100 musketeers with 100 grenades,
throwing at the enemies. Big,
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blow.
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Sweet. Well, I think we've got the
perfect scenario to test this weapon.
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Xavier, back here.
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We've got our French fork.
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Over here.
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We've got our four Ming warriors, okay?
They're attacking the fort. I think we
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want to see some fireworks.
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Shock patches will measure the bomb.
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Deadly blast.
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I have a feeling this one's going to be
a big one.
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Xavier, get in here, man.
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We're on. Get suited.
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Check that out.
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Hey, mind your feet.
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Wow. He was almost cut in two.
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We're seeing, again, all forms of injury
here from this type of high explosive.
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His leg is completely off. His chest is
caved in. I mean, this is just utter
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annihilation of a human being. Let's
check out this guy over here.
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I see our 100G shock patch is tripped.
That's a kill. What about the frag, Doc?
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I'm not seeing any frag on the legs.
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He's got blood, but it might be from the
guy over there.
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He looks mostly intact.
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Yeah. Remember, he's got the trip on the
shockwave, but he was thrown. And with
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that throw, he could hit his head, crack
a pelvis, other ways of dying.
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Okay, look at this. This is our 37G
shock patch, okay? That's roughly
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to getting into a 30 miles per hour car
accident, and it's not tripped. He's
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remained standing, but is there a frag
in him?
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Unscathed on all accounts. He has no
shrapnel. He wasn't thrown to the
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don't see any burn marks on him. And if
you thought this guy was lucky, let's
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take a look at this guy. Yeah. His shock
patch isn't tripped either. He just has
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blood spatter from his other two
friends, and it makes sense if you look
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this. positioning compared to the other
two guys. The entire pressure wave went
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that way instead of this way. Overall,
four guys here, two killed, two walk
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away. Two walk away.
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So which explosive is more effective?
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While the grenade is a very mobile
weapon, it just doesn't pack the same
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as a mechanical landmine. Once that
landmine is triggered, there's no
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that it's capable of doing massive
damage and doing it very well.
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Special weapons, the edge goes to the
Ming warrior for the mechanical
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Coming up, the French musketeers aim to
kill, while the Ming warriors go for
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that triple threat.
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Yeah!
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We're one step closer to an all -out
deathmatch between two military legends,
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the French musketeers and Chinese Ming
warriors.
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The Ming experts believe their
disciplined warriors will win this
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Soldiers who deserted had their feet
chopped off.
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Battalions who failed to do their job
would basically get cut and get left
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to die.
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The musketeer experts believe that their
royal guard will easily defeat their
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Chinese opponent.
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France at the time had a lot of money,
so everything they had was the top. The
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blade, the gun, so they're ready to
kill.
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And one of their best weapons for
killing was a powerful and revolutionary
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sidearm.
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The wheel lock pistol.
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Guns so intricate, it could only be
produced by the skilled hands of
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watchmaking.
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A wheel lock pistol.
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Very powerful, very expensive weapon.
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The wheel lock was the first self
-igniting firearm.
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Gunpowder and a bullet are loaded in the
barrel.
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Additional gunpowder is placed into a
flat pan.
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A key turns the spring -loaded grooved
wheel mechanism, creating tension.
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A metal arm with iron pyrite at the end
is placed on top of the wheel.
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When the trigger is pulled, the tension
is released, spinning the wheel against
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the pyrite.
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This part ignites the gunpowder that
fires the gun.
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It works like a modern -day pocket
lighter.
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That's exactly what he wants.
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But the Ming have a triple threat.
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The three -barrel pole gun.
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The world's first semi -automatic
slaughterer.
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This is a weapon of mass destruction.
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And also, it can shot continuously.
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So it's very effective in the combat.
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Revolutionary Ming design had three
separate chambers.
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Each could be loaded with a round
bullet, then individually triggered.
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To see how these pioneering weapons
match up in a head -to -head pair, Jeff
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up two armor -clad mannequins.
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Jonathan, you'll be using your weapon to
get through this traditional
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musketeer's iron plate chest armor?
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Yes. I have to tell you, man, we've
never seen chest armor like this with a
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wedge on it. There's going to be a lot
of deflection power here.
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It's going to take a lot to get through
it.
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And Xavier, you'll be using your wheel
lock pistols to try to get through this
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traditional Ming Dynasty leather armor
with steel studs. I'm going to start you
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20 feet back. You'll get three shots
each.
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Ready to get this started?
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Yes, sir. Let's do it.
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Xavier, you ready?
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Ready. On three, two, one, fire!
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Xavier reloads his wheel lock pistol at
20 second process.
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Misfire.
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Yeah!
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Both ones clean through.
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Xavier, this is your third and final
shot.
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Fire at will.
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Misfire again.
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Yeah!
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When it fires, it's a big boom, and it
goes through that armor like nothing.
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Can the Ming's black powder weapon do
any better?
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Jonathan loads all three barrels of the
pole gun.
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Jonathan, you ready? Ready!
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Three, two, one, fire!
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Yeah! That's wicked!
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Second shot!
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Third and final shot!
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Woo! Both warriors' weapons hit their
targets.
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But which one was more effective?
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Well, first thing I want to talk about
is the first shot. That's this one here.
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I'm not seeing any penetration or any
injury. This is a very heavy armor. He
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will be very slow. And he is not going
to be protected, his whole body.
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Well, let's check it out. Well, that's
what brings us to the second shot.
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Actually, if you look at his collar,
just above the armor plate.
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Yep.
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That is a perfectly placed shot. I mean,
you're going right through the trachea.
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The windpipe, this is a kill instantly.
And you see it coming out the back.
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That is perfect, but it's demonstrating
exactly what we were worried about. This
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armor protects, but once you can deliver
it anywhere he's not protected, it's a
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kill. But where did that third shot go?
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You know, Jeff, the third shot's right
here. It's actually going right through
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his arm here.
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basically fracturing right up here. It's
going to shatter both the bones along
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his forearm, probably get his elbow, and
you see it coming out the back end as
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well. It's a lucky shot.
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No. The rules were to shoot in the
armor. No. You shoot the head. You're
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absolutely right, and let's go check
yours out.
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Oh.
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fist -sized grouping with that thing. I
can't believe it. I'll tell you, most
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important is, besides, as Jeff said, the
grouping, it's dead center of the body,
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exactly where you want to hit. It's
right where that big blood vessel aorta
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comes down. You smack that, it's an
instant kill. And look at this. Right
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through the thickest part of this armor,
double layer, plus through a rivet.
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I was aiming for that.
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Yeah, right.
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Three instant kills. And playing by the
rules. Et voila.
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Well, I also remember misfire.
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Oh!
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Despite the misfires, in the sim, these
are three instant kills through the
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enemy's armor.
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Armor on the Musketeer, on the other
hand, covers a large portion of his
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surface area, and you need to have some
very lucky or some very accurate shots.
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And the test was, weapon for weapon, did
it get through your opponent's armor?
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Yes, in this case.
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No, in Jonathan's case. Sorry, man.
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When the three -barrel pull gun wasn't
able to punch...
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through that breastplate means our Ming
warrior is at a disadvantage right out
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of the gate. Edge, wheel lock pistol.
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The mid -range weapons.
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The edge goes to the French musketeers
for the wheel lock pistol.
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Coming up, the Ming slash back with
their favorite post -range weapon.
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Who will be the deadliest warrior?
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Ming warrior or French musketeer?
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In a head -to -head battle between these
killer soldiers, who would win?
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The Musketeer's blade of choice was a
razor -sharp steel sword paired with an
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equally piercing dagger.
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The rapier and main gauche.
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Designed to stab and thrust with deadly
results.
457
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:27,680
I'd like to introduce you to the early
17th century rapier.
458
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:32,159
It takes nothing for me to be able to
deliver over three and a half feet of
459
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:36,059
steel to someone. The other thing that
you have here is what's called the main
460
00:30:36,060 --> 00:30:37,740
gauche, or parrying dagger.
461
00:30:38,940 --> 00:30:43,559
This was used on suite with the rapier,
and you used the rapier mainly and only
462
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:44,519
for the attack.
463
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:48,859
And this would catch your opponent's
blade, sharp twist of the wrist, and you
464
00:30:48,860 --> 00:30:52,760
could snap off four to six inches of the
tip of your opponent's rapier.
465
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:54,010
Awesome.
466
00:30:54,011 --> 00:30:57,309
All right, so we're going to have you
striking against a target, which is?
467
00:30:57,310 --> 00:31:00,709
About as lifelike as they come. And we
want to see how long it takes to get
468
00:31:00,710 --> 00:31:02,530
lethal strikes against this target.
469
00:31:02,830 --> 00:31:06,789
Yeah, because this is primarily a
thrusting weapon, I'm going to strap on
470
00:31:06,790 --> 00:31:09,889
-Link three -dimensional accelerometer.
We'll be able to get the thrusting
471
00:31:09,890 --> 00:31:13,860
impact velocity and compare that across
all the thrusting weapons we've seen.
472
00:31:14,410 --> 00:31:15,970
Luke, are you ready? I'm ready!
473
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:31,560
I think this belongs to you, sir.
474
00:31:31,561 --> 00:31:32,719
Merci beaucoup.
475
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:37,079
Okay, so we've got two deadly blows
right here in both eyes. You basically
476
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:40,559
this eyeball in half. You went through
the skull, hit the head. That's a kill.
477
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:44,959
The next strike, we go right to the
neck. This is a classic way of cutting
478
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,799
the jugulars as well as the carotid.
It's a beautiful strike.
479
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,000
Death strike number two.
480
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,850
Here, you went straight through the
heart.
481
00:31:51,851 --> 00:31:53,499
That's another kill. That's three.
482
00:31:53,500 --> 00:31:56,779
And then when we look here, this is the
disembowel move you wanted to do. You
483
00:31:56,780 --> 00:31:58,239
actually went straight through.
484
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,819
which is again a kill. And that's four.
And I guess for your fifth one, you came
485
00:32:01,820 --> 00:32:05,659
right back up and you took out the other
eye. So that's five ways to kill a
486
00:32:05,660 --> 00:32:06,710
person.
487
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:08,640
Ming Warriors, what do you guys think?
488
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:13,460
I think I could do several different
strikes in continuous motion.
489
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:17,900
Instead of one, pull back, reset, again.
490
00:32:18,220 --> 00:32:21,230
There's no one, pull back. It's one,
one, one, one. Five times.
491
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:23,260
As far as the thrusting speed...
492
00:32:23,690 --> 00:32:27,989
5 .9 feet per second, which is roughly 4
miles per hour. Now, I'm guessing
493
00:32:27,990 --> 00:32:31,110
you're sacrificing speed for accuracy,
correct?
494
00:32:31,111 --> 00:32:34,849
Yes. With our weapon, we're not going to
have to sacrifice that much speed.
495
00:32:34,850 --> 00:32:39,509
The main warrior's bladed weapon, it has
slicer and dicer with incredibly
496
00:32:39,510 --> 00:32:41,110
versatile killing power.
497
00:32:42,430 --> 00:32:47,450
The Ming Dao sword, serving a perfectly
severed body part.
498
00:32:47,830 --> 00:32:51,510
The Dao is a single -bladed sword. It's
sharp on the...
499
00:32:51,930 --> 00:32:56,189
top third of the blade, but the bottom
part right here is dull. So you can use
500
00:32:56,190 --> 00:33:00,089
hand motions here to actually drill into
the opponent and use both harm
501
00:33:00,090 --> 00:33:01,410
strength, then tear apart.
502
00:33:01,530 --> 00:33:06,049
So you're claiming versatility and
robustness as opposed to a weapon that
503
00:33:06,050 --> 00:33:09,550
commit to thrusting. Exactly. It's just
a savage weapon.
504
00:33:09,790 --> 00:33:11,470
The musketeers will be chopped up.
505
00:33:12,010 --> 00:33:18,069
To measure the damage of the blade on
actual flesh and bone, two peaks are
506
00:33:18,070 --> 00:33:19,150
at human height.
507
00:33:19,590 --> 00:33:20,640
Philip, you ready?
508
00:33:20,710 --> 00:33:22,880
Ready. High speed's up and armed.
509
00:33:22,881 --> 00:33:25,559
Accelerometer's streaming.
510
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:27,640
Three, two, one.
511
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:29,010
Cut him off.
512
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:37,250
Yo.
513
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,420
Fill it, man. Nice job.
514
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:46,519
I actually ran the numbers on that
initial thrust, and you know what? You
515
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:51,089
actually. faster than the rapier coming
in. They had about 4 miles per hour. You
516
00:33:51,090 --> 00:33:55,849
had about 4 .9 miles per hour. And where
did you place that first thrust? Right
517
00:33:55,850 --> 00:33:59,820
midline, where all the vital organs are
going to be and the penetration you got.
518
00:33:59,850 --> 00:34:01,290
That would have hit the aorta.
519
00:34:01,310 --> 00:34:04,670
And that is ridiculous. That's a lot of
power in that blade.
520
00:34:04,970 --> 00:34:09,488
The thrust was comparable to the rapier,
but it also has that slashing
521
00:34:09,489 --> 00:34:11,469
capability. The proof is in the pig.
522
00:34:11,929 --> 00:34:16,550
It took 16 seconds for the musketeers to
achieve their five kill shots.
523
00:34:18,670 --> 00:34:20,909
The Ming only took seven seconds.
524
00:34:22,670 --> 00:34:26,629
I got to say, I'd rather stick with my
rapier. It's a really, really good
525
00:34:26,630 --> 00:34:30,090
cutter. Remember also, I've got two
weapons, not one.
526
00:34:30,091 --> 00:34:32,968
Even with the other dagger, you still
only have a thrusting capability.
527
00:34:32,969 --> 00:34:34,909
I'd rather have my Ming Dao any day.
528
00:34:35,389 --> 00:34:40,829
What do our experts think is the best
weapon? The Ming Dao is absolutely
529
00:34:40,830 --> 00:34:43,730
devastating with both a thrust and a
slash.
530
00:34:43,731 --> 00:34:46,169
That gives you options in the
battlefield.
531
00:34:46,170 --> 00:34:48,520
When you've got options, it gives you
the edge.
532
00:34:48,620 --> 00:34:53,320
For close -range weapons, the edge goes
to the Ming warrior for the Dao sword.
533
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:59,739
With the testing complete, only one
question remains in this battle to the
534
00:34:59,740 --> 00:35:00,790
death.
535
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,400
I think this is the Musketeers' fight to
lose.
536
00:35:04,401 --> 00:35:07,939
The weapons that they're using seem a
lot more advanced than the weapons that
537
00:35:07,940 --> 00:35:09,200
the Ming warrior is using.
538
00:35:09,540 --> 00:35:13,210
I came into this thinking the Musketeers
were going to have it hands down.
539
00:35:13,420 --> 00:35:18,059
But those Ming's much more deadly than
I've ever thought possible. I'm giving
540
00:35:18,060 --> 00:35:19,110
edge to the Ming.
541
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:25,700
Coming up, Ming warrior, French
musketeer. The battle begins.
542
00:35:31,060 --> 00:35:35,640
The Chinese Ming warrior against the
French musketeer.
543
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:38,240
Both black powder innovators.
544
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,400
But who is deadliest?
545
00:35:41,290 --> 00:35:46,089
Our experts ran a series of tests on the
sophisticated soldier's most lethal
546
00:35:46,090 --> 00:35:47,140
weapon.
547
00:35:47,970 --> 00:35:53,229
The long -range weapon, the Ming's Nest
of Bees rocket battery, went up against
548
00:35:53,230 --> 00:35:54,590
the Musketeer's musket.
549
00:35:54,990 --> 00:35:59,769
The Nest of Bees is capable of doing
horrific damage. It's not the most
550
00:35:59,770 --> 00:36:04,069
weapon. Now, the musket is able to
deliver a lot of damage, but deliver it
551
00:36:04,070 --> 00:36:05,930
accurately. My edge goes to the musket.
552
00:36:06,310 --> 00:36:08,150
Edge, French Musketeer.
553
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:15,359
Special weapons. We pitted the Ming's
mechanical landmine against the
554
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:16,700
musketeer's grenade.
555
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,879
That network of landmines, are you
joking me? And the amount of shrapnel
556
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,079
black powder they were able to pack into
that?
557
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:25,440
I gotta give it the edge.
558
00:36:25,860 --> 00:36:27,480
Edge? Ming Warrior.
559
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:29,840
A mid -range weapon.
560
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,120
The Ming's three -barrel pole gun.
561
00:36:32,710 --> 00:36:35,540
Shot it out against the Musketeer's
wheel -lock pistol.
562
00:36:35,650 --> 00:36:40,150
I love the three -barrel gun, but could
it penetrate the Musketeer's armor? No.
563
00:36:40,350 --> 00:36:45,089
Wheel -lock pistol went right through
that Ming leather armor, and it was bang
564
00:36:45,090 --> 00:36:46,250
on every time.
565
00:36:46,710 --> 00:36:48,790
Edge, French Musketeer.
566
00:36:49,810 --> 00:36:55,249
Finally, in close -range weapons, the
Ming Dao sword competed against the
567
00:36:55,250 --> 00:36:57,390
Musketeer's rapier and main gauche.
568
00:36:57,950 --> 00:37:02,989
The DAO was way more deadly. It can be
thrusted and slashed. So the fact that
569
00:37:02,990 --> 00:37:06,569
you could kill in two ways versus one, I
got to give the advantage to the DAO.
570
00:37:06,570 --> 00:37:08,250
Edge. Ming Warrior.
571
00:37:09,730 --> 00:37:12,990
Prevent their showdown from being won by
a single lucky blow.
572
00:37:13,670 --> 00:37:18,549
The battle will be run a thousand times
in a simulation program developed by
573
00:37:18,550 --> 00:37:19,600
Slytherin Studios.
574
00:37:19,601 --> 00:37:24,099
We've got all the data from our test
loaded into our simulation, and there's
575
00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:27,739
only one thing left to do. Let's fire it
up and see who is the deadliest
576
00:37:27,740 --> 00:37:28,790
warrior.
577
00:40:00,270 --> 00:40:01,320
Ah!
578
00:40:29,821 --> 00:40:36,689
Over the course of a thousand battles,
our Musketeers emerged decisively
579
00:40:36,690 --> 00:40:39,630
victorious, with 674 kills to their
credit.
580
00:40:39,631 --> 00:40:42,609
This was due in large part to the fact
that the Ming warrior couldn't really
581
00:40:42,610 --> 00:40:46,409
hurt our Musketeer in the vital areas
that he needed to, thanks to the
582
00:40:46,410 --> 00:40:48,030
of the Musketeer's breastplate.
583
00:40:48,170 --> 00:40:49,750
And that's the biggest factor.
584
00:40:49,751 --> 00:40:53,449
But I have to admit, I probably didn't
give the Musketeer's armor as much
585
00:40:53,450 --> 00:40:54,500
as I should have.
586
00:40:55,390 --> 00:40:58,050
That, to me, was the deciding factor in
this matchup.
587
00:40:58,870 --> 00:40:59,970
Nice job, Musketeer.
588
00:41:01,450 --> 00:41:04,280
I don't care what the numbers say on the
computer result.
589
00:41:05,450 --> 00:41:07,990
The Ming warrior is the deadliest
warrior.
590
00:41:07,991 --> 00:41:11,209
I like the Ming warriors, but I think
they should go back where they come from
591
00:41:11,210 --> 00:41:13,739
and, you know, build walls. They're very
good at it.
592
00:41:13,740 --> 00:41:18,290
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