All language subtitles for Deadliest warrior s03e07 Ivan the Terrible vs. Hernán Cortés.eng

fuego!

[Cannon blasts;
screaming]

Spain versus Russia.

Ivan the terrible

Versus Hernan Cortes.

[Grunting]

When you're looking
at cortes,

He's an adventurer,
he's a soldier of fortune,

He takes a group
of under 1,000 guys

And brings it
to the new world.

And what does he want?
What's his objective?

It's gold.

And if you knew where it was

Or if he thought
you knew where it was,

This guy could be incredibly
cruel.

With ivan, this guy
was humiliated as a boy,

Forced to bide his time.

And when he finally becomes
a czar,

He rules with an iron fist,

Building an empire
that he dedicates to his god.

I mean, you've got these guys

That have proven
if you're committed,

If you're cunning
and you're cold-Blooded,

You too can be a conqueror.

You got crazy guys.

It's gonna be off the charts

When it comes
to who's gonna kill who.

Let's get it started.

Ivan the terrible, Russia's
sadistic 16th century czar,

Whose murderous
mounted death squads

Built Europe's largest empire
of its time...

Takes on Hernan Cortes,
the brutal spanish explorer,

Whose conquistadors conquered

The largest empire
in north america

Of the 16th century.

It's a battle of the butchers

As two of history's
cruelest conquerors face off.

Who is deadliest?

To find out, the history of war
and modern science collide

As former navy seal richard
"mack" machowicz dives deep

Into the tactics of the warriors
behind the weapons.

To unlock new data on arsenals
of the past.

And e.R. Physician armand dorian
dissects the trauma

And reveals the physical
and psychological traits

That shaped
these legends of war.

This ground-Breaking data will
be paired

With historical research
and entered

Into an all-New digital
combat engine.

Two legendary combatants
will be resurrected.

History will be rewritten.

But only one will be crowned
deadliest warrior.

Welcome to the fight club.

Our experts will unlock
new historical insights

To determine which 16th century
conqueror is deadliest--

Ivan the terrible,
the Russian czar who ravaged

Over 1 1/2 million square miles
of Europe,

Or Hernan Cortes,

Who brought down a kingdom
of 5 million aztecs.

You know, whenever I look
at warriors like this,

The first thing I want to break
down is the tale of the tape.

Ivan the terrible,
this guy is big.

He's six feet tall,
some say 6'3", 180 pounds.

And you compare it
to Hernan Cortes.

He's 5'4", 135 pounds.

Then if you factor
in their mental health,

Hernan Cortes
is the classic psychopath.

He is going,
after as you say, the gold.

Whatever comes in front of
his path in getting that gold,

His psychopath deranged mind
will eliminate.

He has no remorse.

Then you compare
ivan the terrible.

There's accounts
that he would treat

His back pain with mercury.

This would put him
in a bipolar state.

He would have manic
and depressive episodes,

Which means he may be
mr. Nice guy one second.

The next second he's chopping
your head off.

Doc, when I look at cortes,
this guy has charisma,

Lots of it.

But you do not want
to get in this guy's way

When he's trying
to go after an objective.

And with ivan, he sees himself
as the archangel michael.

And he is going to conquer
empire after empire serving god.

And he will do
whatever it takes.

He will butcher anybody,
even if it is his own men,

To accomplish that objective.

I think this fight is gonna
come down to the weapons.

Both of these guys
used very early,

Primitive,
black powder weapons.

For the first time
on deadliest warrior,

We're gonna be putting to rest
some myths

Of early firearms.

But that's not it.

We still have
to include the x-Factors.

The new digital combat engine
was created by robert daly,

A former green beret

And designer of more than
30 military-Based video games,

Including
the deadliest warrior game.

Simulating 5,000 battles
between these combatants,

The engine
will evaluate weapons data

Plus 100 x-Factors,
critical intangibles

That are assigned values based
on extensive historical research

Of each warrior's lives,
tactics,

And psychological profiles.
You know, in this case,

How about psychological health
between these two warriors?

That's a great one, 'cause
you look at these two warriors,

And they are dynamically
different but also the same.

Ivan is crazy.

He's also on a mission from god.

And then you have cortes,
who is probably

The biggest psychopath
that you've ever seen,

'Cause he is motivated
towards one goal,

And that is
how does he find gold.

We're really gonna have
to see

How the mental health
of both of these leaders

Affected
their decision-Making process

On the battlefield
with their troops.

Wielding the weapons
for ivan the terrible

Is vladimir orlov...

A period sword
and pole arm specialist

Who trained
with the Russian special forces.

Ivan the terrible,
he's brutal.

He have the best weapons.
He's mad.

The combination, ballistic.

Also representing
ivan the terrible

Is andrew jenks,

A professor of Russian history
at california state university.

Ivan had
a very troubled childhood.

His mother died
when he was three.

His father died
when he was eight.

He was then subjected to
the control of the aristocrats.

And there's evidence
that he was mentally abused.

Devastated by the death
of his parents,

The young grand prince of moscow
turned to the bible.

By the time he was crowed
Russia's first czar in 1547,

Ivan's religious extremism
turned into a bloodthirst

For torturing
his political enemies.

[Screams]
[Laughs maniacally]

Ivan saw himself
as the archangel michael.

It was his job
according to his reading

Of the bible to exact vengeance
on all of god's enemies.

Over the next 37 years,
ivan's maniacal crusade

Conquered
over 1/2 million square miles

Of neighboring territory,

Turning
the nation-State of moscow

Into a mighty Russian empire.

Ivan transformed Russia
into a major European power.

By the end of his reign,

The territory
has more than doubled in size.

But could ivan defeat
an adversary

Who conquered a kingdom
more than 40 years earlier

On the other side of the globe,

Spain's new world conquistador,
Hernan Cortes?

Wielding the armaments of cortes

Is weapons specialist
jason heck.

I don't think there's any way

That ivan the terrible
would beat cortes.

Cortes has better weapons.
He's more sane.

He's just going to win.

Also fighting for cortes
is colonial spanish expert,

Kyle lopez.

Hernan Cortes was a politician
on the island of cuba.

He was very ambitious.

He yearned to attain
the huge, vast riches

Which everyone believed

Were waiting for them
in modern-Day mexico.

In the early 16th century,
cuba was a spanish colony

In the new world.

Fueled by rumors of gold
in mexico,

Cortes convinced
the colonial governor

To let him lead
the next expedition.

Cortes sailed
to mexico in 1519.

The goal was to brutally conquer

The aztec empire
and plunder their gold.

He led 500 conquistadors

Into the heart
of the most powerful empire

In the new world.

This is 500 soldiers entering
an empire of 5 million people.

But they had guns, cannons,
and they had horses.

The aztecs had never seen
any of this.

Cortes combined his technology

With torture
to subdue the aztecs.

He wanted gold, and he needed
to know where the gold was.

One form of torture that cortes
used was the garrote.

A man was tied to a post,
a rope put around his neck,

And then this lever
could be slowly turned,

Turning the rope,
tightening it around the neck.

It was very simple,
but extremely nasty.

Cortes slaughtered
1/4 million aztecs

During his successful quest.

In about two years,
cortes conquered most of mexico

And central america.

The showdown
starts at long-Range.

The cortes experts kick off
with a matchlock firearm

First developed
in the 14th century--

The arquebus.

A weapon that helped
revolutionize warfare.

This is the arquebus.

It's the cutting-Edge technology
at the time.

The reason that this
is a technological advance

Is it actually
carries the match here.

You pull the trigger yourself,

Instead of having a match

In your hand or having somebody
light it for you.

So this is what the arquebus
that i'm holding would shoot.

This is .69 caliber.

It's a big round.
There's no question.

We could actually
see more damage

Than modern firearms with this.

So what's the stand for, jason?

Our stand is used to give us
better accuracy

For our shots that we get off.

To test the accuracy,
damage potential,

And reload time, the experts
will fire at targets

Placed at 30, 40, and 60 feet--

The maximum accurate range for
16th century matchlock firearms.

The moving targets will simulate
enemies running for cover.

You'll get as many rounds
as you need

To hit all three targets.

You will be on the clock,

And that's how we'll get
your reload time.

On three, two, one,
shoot 'em up.

[Gunshot]
nice!

Nice shot. He hit the other
side on the left chest.

On the left side
Oh, no way!

Showing tremendous accuracy,

Jason's first shot hits
both targets one and two.

I'm telling you he's getting
killed on that reload time.

There you go, buddy.

Whoa!

Only two rounds down range to
hit all three targets.

I'm actually impressed.

So let's look at the placement

Of the first shot here.

It's pretty large.

I mean,
that's a big entrance wound.

You got an entrance wound
like this,

That thing's gonna core out
that whole center piece.

This guy's gonna go down.
For me this is an instant kill.

And let's not forget,
these are pure lead balls, okay?

These are not jacketed,
so when it enters the body,

It's gonna have
a much bigger deformation,

Possibly break apart.

This is a .69 caliber round.

This is a big hunk of lead
flying through the air.

I mean, can it get any better
than this?

I don't think so.

I mean, you're going straight
through the trachea.

In a small space like this,
boom,

Everything is torn to bits.

This is an instant kill.

This is not such
an inaccurate weapon.

He's hitting his targets,
they're moving.

It's not an easy thing to do.
He pulled it off.

My only slight concern when
you're talking about this is,

If you've got one round
down range

And you're spending a lot of
time loading that second round,

I think the mindset
of the warrior

At that point is,
are you concerned

About other guys coming
and being caught

Trying to get
that second round loaded?

Cortes was bringing this up
because aztec warriors

Don't have this technology
and they don't understand it.

It is documented

That the aztecs
thought that this

Had some sort
of supernatural origin.

Vlad, do you think ivan
would think cortes was a god?

A what?
[Laughter]

Coming up,
can ivan's matchlock firearm

Blow away the arquebus?

And later,
in the deadliest warrior armory,

These two conquerors' swords,
silenced for nearly 600 years,

Are brought back to life
for a savage test.

Ivan the terrible,
Russia's first czar,

Whose savage 16th century
conquests expanded his nation

An average of 50 square miles
every day of his 37-Year reign,

Versus Hernan Cortes,

The spanish conquistador
who recruited a force

Of 1,000 troops
from amongst the best men

The spanish colonies
had to offer,

Annihilating the
5 million-Strong aztec empire.

Cortes had
a band of mercenaries.

These men had fought
in the spanish army.

They knew war.

They were considered

The best organized army
since the roman legionnaires.

In the first firearm test
to determine accuracy,

Reload time,
and damage potential,

Cortes' arquebus used two shots
to hit all three targets.

Ivan the terrible counterattacks
with his own matchlock,

The pischal,

Russia's high-Powered answer
to the arquebus.

The most advanced thing
about this weapon

Is that you can reload it
about twice as fast

Compared to arquebus,
and the reason

Is Russians went ahead

And made the hole over here

A little bit larger.

So you have the powder
already here preloaded.

Vladimir, why are you bringing
an axe to a gunfight?

I bring the Russian axe,
bardiche,

And use it as a stand to fire.

And when i'm done firing,
i have another weapon.

That makes complete sense

When you think about getting
that first shot off

And that people
are rushing at you.

Go right to your weapon
and deliver a lethal blow.

Vladimir will take
as many shots as he needs to hit

All three targets.

On three, two, one,
shoot 'em up.

[Gunshot]

Whoa!
Nice.

Vlad also hits both the first
and second targets

With one shot.

Delivered, baby, delivered!
That's great.

Because of the pischal's
larger powder chamber,

The black powder

Of vlad's second shot
is already preloaded.

[Gunshot]

Yeah!

Time.

Excellent! Excellent work!

This entrance wound
is as perfect

A place shot as you can get.

Straight through the heart.

That is so much lead flying
through the air at great speed.

If it hits that target,
off switch.

This is one
of those instant kill zones.

This is your aorta
coming down here.

You pop that sucker,
you're instantly dead.

He's hitting dead middle
of the body.

For me, the myth that
matchlocks can't be accurate

Is destroyed.

The simple fact of the matter
is he delivered that round

Right where he basically
wanted it to go.

I think you deserve extra points

When we start to talk
about the sim

And the fact
that you were able to do that

And hold a gigantic axe
in your hand,

And obviously you produced
the perfect result.

You know, talking
about x-Factors in the sim

And somebody being able to do
something very smoothly--

Ivan the terrible
had a medical illness

Called ankylosing spondylitis.

It's an autoimmune disease
of the spine,

And what it does is it turns
your spine into a bamboo.

I'd like to add to that point

That he was treated with mercury
at that time.

Mercury obviously
is an extreme toxin,

Which makes you
a bipolar manic person,

Which can never be helpful

When you're trying
to actually aim at a target.

When it comes to accuracy,
that may play a role in the sim.

Apart from a display
of master marksmanship,

What we're also seeing here
is the ability of the Russians

To adopt and innovate

The technology
of their enemies--

A weapon that is light,

It's faster to load,

And in my view, clearly superior
to the arquebus.

Let's break down the numbers.

Each of these two weapons
fired two rounds

And killed their three targets.

As far as accuracy is concerned,

They're the same in my mind.

Reload time,

Jason, you were 22 seconds
slower than vlad.

That matters.

To settle the score,
the two firearms

Will square off
in one last test.

Both experts will attempt
to fire their weapon

Through each other's armor.

The test
that we've got set up here

Is using roma clay calibrated
to fbi ballistics standards.

And this is a test
that's performed

In labs today
on modern body armor.

We're gonna take cortes' armor,
put it over top here.

If the pischal
makes it through this armor,

That's self-Explanatory.

Vlad is up first,

Firing ivan's pischal
into cortes' full chest plate

Of spanish steel,
masterfully forged back to life

In the deadliest warrior armory

To historic specifications.

Vlad, are you ready?
Yes.

On three, two, one,
take the shot.

[Gunshot]

All: nice!
Whoa!

Look at the size of that hole.

And it dents even the back.

It went through the first layer
of steel

And went through our clay.

I can see
right through this man's body.

This is just horrifying

Because it can penetrate,

Splits apart,
and I guarantee you

There's tons of fragment
in here.

And the exit wound is as nasty.

This cavity is much, much
larger than the round itself.

And this is the beauty
of using clay.

It's giving us an imprint of how
large the temporary cavity is.

Next up, jason fires cortes'
arquebus at ivan's armor,

Which combines chain mail
with panels of steel plate.

Three, two, one,
take the shot.

[Gunshot]

Whoo! Beautiful.

Okay, so it looks like it goes
literally through the side,

Which would hit soft tissue,
maybe hit a spleen,

But it's not an instant kill
on its own.

Having said that,
the issue here

Is that it does penetrate
the armor,

And, if you're on target,
it's a kill.

One of the things that you're
gonna have to really look at

Is how quickly can that guy get
to his secondary weapon.

And i'll tell you,
there is something

To looking at the bardiche being
a support tool for the pischal.

Would you like to pick up this
and go against somebody,

Or would you rather pick up this
and go against somebody?

[Laughs]

Which long-Range firearm
gives his warrior an edge?

I think personally
the pischal is more accurate.

In the arquebus
you have a rear sight,

But you don't have
a front sight.

With the pischal,
you have a front sight.

And when you're talking
about iron sights,

It's front sight focus,
steady trigger pull.

[Gunshot]

The pischal was able to hit
the man in the chest,

Pass right
through the plate armor.

Plus we saw 22 seconds being
saved on the reload time

With that larger pan.

Edge pischal.

For long-Range weapons,
edge, ivan the terrible.

Coming up, two 16th century
swords are resurrected

For battle on foot
and horseback.

Ivan the terrible,

Hernan Cortes

In a clash of the conquerors.

Who is deadliest?

Spanish conqueror
Hernan Cortes,

Whose band of mercenaries
once wiped out 3,000 people

In just three hours
in a savage conquest of mexico,

Versus the brutal czar
ivan the terrible,

Who, on a self-Proclaimed
mission from god,

Built the mighty
Russian empire

Using a combination of infantry

And one of history's
most notorious cavalries.

Ivan formed a personal death
squad called the oprichniki.

These oprichniki
wore black monks' robes.

And they would come into town as
if they were messengers of god.

They were grim reapers
on horseback.

Ivan's oprichniki cavalry
and his infantry

Slaughtered with a saber
of polish-Hungarian descent.

The sablia--
32 inches of curved steel

That was as lightweight
as it was lethal.

Inside the deadliest warrior
armory,

Just below the fight club,

Ivan the terrible's sablia
will be resurrected

For the first time
in half a millennia

With painstaking attention
to historical details

By weapons designer and builder
dave baker.

To create this saber,
what I did was try to find

A balance point about six to
eight inches from the guard.

What that gives me
is a nice balance

Between a cut and control,

Making for a fast, light,
deadly weapon.

The first test will measure
the penetration damage

And versatility
of ivan's sablia on foot,

Using a pig carcass to simulate
human tissue and bone.

Jeff marks the target for
a hack, a slash, and a pierce

To see if the expert
can accurately deliver

Three different strikes to areas

That would not be covered
by the opponent's armor.

On three, two, one,
hack 'em up.

All: nice, nice.
Nice.

Well done, well done.

Vlad, that first cut, ho!

Okay, the beauty of this
is it did

What the weapon is designed for,

A beautiful slash
exactly where we want it.

And look at this,
right in between the ribs,

But actually then fractures

This rib as it goes all the way
through down to the spine.

Let's take a look
at this wound here.

Whoa, this is beautiful.

You're going all the way down
into the cervical spine here.

This is basically
a functional decapitation.

How'd it feel, vlad?

So very good in slashing,
you know.

Definitely not
a thrusting weapon.

Well, when you thrust it,
you make contact.

But you could tell
you felt much more comfortable

Swinging that blade flat out.
Absolutely.

As far as accuracy,
first one, dead on.

Second one, slightly off.

We put these marks on here

Because you're aiming
for somewhere

That's not going to be protected
by armor,

And sometimes two inches
can make a difference.

Cortes slashes back
with the espada ropera...

A blade so easy to wield,
it was carried

By spanish soldiers
and civilians.

The espada ropera.
it's the spanish straight sword

Of the early 16th century.

High-Carbon spanish steel.

Now you can see that the blade
tapers quite a bit,

And it also has a distal taper
running this way,

So the blade is getting thinner
both this way

And this way as it travels
towards the tip.

At about 2 3/4 pounds,
it still has a lot of weight

For the cut, so you have
a lot of point control.

Ivan has already beat cortes
in 16th century firearms.

Can the spaniard's double-Edged
blade help even the score?

On three, two, one, cut it.

[Shouts]

[Laughter]

[Shouts]

Nice.
Yeah!

Yeah!
Well done, sir, well done.

[Laughter]

Oh, jason, you know what I love
about this?

Even though you cut this pig
in two

And the piercing target
was on the ground,

You gave me a pierce.
I love it.

I love this because
this is transverse anatomy.

Look at this.
You can actually see the spine,

You can see the spinal cord,
the two back muscles.

This is
the entire abdominal cavity.

Just completely obliterated.
One swing, two body bags.

One thing I really love
is the fact that no one gives

A straight blade any respect
for cutting.

It's bull. It'll go straight
through the pig

If you do it right.

But cavalry attacks

Were a key tactic in both
these warriors' battle plans.

This next test will determine
which sword is more accurate

In striking vital areas
not protected by armor.

Vlad, on this test,
can you hit

The vital portions of this
blood-Filled torso--

The face, the neck?

On three, two, one,
cut him up!

Come on.

Yeah!
Ohh!

Wow!

That is nice.

Geoff, you grab the rest
of the head.

I'm gonna start here.

The beauty of this is,

This guy would've opened
his mouth screaming

As that blade
went right through his mouth,

And cuts his head
literally in half.

It's a guillotine by horse.

For me, doc, it's all
about precision and accuracy.

If you can do that
to a guy in armor,

You don't have to worry
about his armor.

This is definitely a way
of shutting someone up.

This is as good an instant kill
as we've seen.

Next, how will cortes'
espada ropera

Match up
against ivan's armor?

On three, two, one, go!

Come on.

That's it.
Ooh.

I'm not sure it was a kill shot.

It looks like there's
a small nick up here,

But hey, hey, okay, here we go,
here we go.

I've got the chain mail that's
busted through here.

So it looks like...
There here, yeah, right here.

We have a laceration
right here.

You're missing the vital blood
vessels right here.

Your carotid is right here
in this notch.

You have the external jugular
here, internal jugular,

So you are getting a laceration,

But this just hurts,
but does not stop.

Okay, I like it that it went
through the chain mail.

But that wasn't the test.

We said make sure
it was a kill shot.

This is not a kill shot.

That's probably why sabers
turned out to be

The preferred weapon
on the back of a horse.

With this, you've got
a small, little aim point,

And you've got three things
basically moving.

It's really difficult
to land a thrusting blow

From the back of a horse.

Now, jason, I gotta ask,
you had the option

To thrust or hack
with this weapon.

Why did you choose
to go with the thrust?

Thrust is deadlier when you--
When you land it.

This is where
having two options

Becomes very, very difficult.

Under stress and pressure
when there's very little time

To correct, if you're having
to navigate in your head,

"Well, I could try it this way
or I could try it that way,"

When you have only one kind
of technique,

But you're great
at that technique,

Just let go and let
the technique do the work.

Cortes' espada ropera?

Or ivan's sablia?

Yeah!

Which blade gets the edge?

The espada ropera is better.

You know why it's better for me,
because of the reach.

If you see, all you need is
three inches to kill,

That is all you need to do.
And look how far out you can go.

And a beautiful thrusting weapon

That just showed me
that it could also slash.

I love this weapon on foot.

And I would definitely
give the edge

On foot
to the espada ropera.

But you have to choose one
to use both

On foot and on horseback,
which one would you choose?

If I only had to choose one,

Again when we talked
about technique,

I don't want to have to think

About multiple techniques
under stress and pressure.

I'm going to take the weapon
that has one simple technique.

All I have to do
is bring everything I have

To that strike.
We know that it's produced

Great results on the ground and
great results from the horse.

I'm going to go
with the sablia.

I agree, mack.
And if i'm going in with cavalry

And that's a key component
of my arsenal,

I'm going to choose the weapon
that combines best with it.

Edge, ivan's sablia.

In close-Range weapons,
edge, ivan the terrible.

Coming up,
cortes' barbaric polearm

Squares off
against ivan's brutal battleaxe.

And later...

Hey, doc, heads up.

New insights from the tests...

It's taking something
out of you.

This may be
just a one strike weapon.

Combine with x-Factors
that could turn

The tide of the battle.

This is gonna probably play
a critical role,

Because when you're irrational,
you're going to make

Different types of decisions

Than you are
when you're rational.

Hernan Cortes,

Ivan the terrible--
Who is the deadliest warrior?

Ivan the terrible,

The maniacal 16th century
Russian czar,

Who, on a self-Proclaimed
mission from god,

Slaughtered his way

Through eastern Europe
for more than 30 years,

Versus Hernan Cortes,
the spanish soldier of fortune,

Who, driven by his obsession
for gold,

Stopped at nothing in his
annihilation of the aztecs.

Both warriors carved up
the enemy

With medium-Range weapons
designed to decapitate.

[Groans]

Ivan staked his life
on the bardiche,

A barbaric battleaxe
with a two-Foot cutting blade.

Ivan has to face cavalry,
cavalry on all sides,

From all of his opponents.

So he needs an excellent
dismounting weapon.

And this is ideally suited
for that task.

It's beautifully brutal
in its simplicity.

16th century battlefields

Were choked with both
infantry and cavalry.

Geoff will test
the bardiche's damage

And dismounting capabilities
in two phases.

First, against an unarmored
stationery ballistics gel torso,

Then on a moving mounted target

Wrapped in cortes'
steel-Plated armor.

On three, two, one,
cut him up.

[Growls]

Oh!

All: nice.

He's getting tired
a little bit.

Release the horse.

Yeah!
Did not stop it.

Although the bardiche
was not effective

Against the mounted opponent,
it obliterated the gel torso.

Target number one here,
this is very important.

He got the arteries,
he got the fracture,

He got the spine.
That's all it takes, guys.

One perfectly placed strike
all the way through.

You take the head off.

Think of 10,000 of these
bodies, mutilated on the ground.

Now that's intimidation.
Now, vlad, when you were using

This weapon,
did you feel fatigue at all?

Yes, I did.

First couple strikes fine,
you know.

Going on,
you're actually killing yourself

A little bit as well.

That kind of information
is very important

Because that plays
into our fatigue x-Factor.

And if it's taking something
out of you,

This may be
just a one-Strike weapon.

After that first strike,
multiple strikes

Make you more exhausted,
which puts you at risk.

The spaniard's answer
to the bardiche

Was a vicious,
multipurpose polearm.

The alabarda--
part spear, part meat cleaver,

It slaughtered aztecs
with violent variety.

This was
a absolute slaughter machine,

Considering it's got
that steel pike at the end.

And it's so long
that it gives you

This range to make
killing thrusts

At the enemy
from such a long ways away.

With ivan's weapons taking
the edge in firearms and swords,

Can cortes' polearm get him back
in the battle?

High speed is up.

On three, two, one,
cut him up.

Oh, look at that.
Yeah, yeah.

Oh!
Release the horse.

[Shouting]

Nice.
[Grunts]

Oh!

That is a coup de grace.

This says it all right here.

Yeah, unbelievable.

This chain mail was worthless
against this weapon.

It went straight through,
not only with this point,

But also when he went
with this tip,

It was actually, it went
straight down into the belly,

To the pelvis.

This guy is literally screaming,

Looking at this ginormous blade
in his body.

And of course, he's gonna die.

Hey, doc, heads up.

Nice. So obviously
another decapitation,

But the beauty of this
decapitation is what?

The first strike was a pierce

That went straight through,
right through the trachea,

All the way through the spine.

And that's as good as it gets
when you want to actually kill.

For me personally,
one of the things we talk about

When you talk
about hand-To-Hand combat

Is getting in close
and dominating the space.

If you can end that guy
with one blow,

It is vain, occam's razor.

It is vain to do with more
what can be done with less.

If I can do it with
one clear shot, end that guy,

Drop that guy,
move on to the next guy.

There is no doubt that is
domination in the battle space.

Great point, mack,

And domination is one
of our x-Factors in the sim.

So which polearm
gets the edge--

Ivan's bardiche
or cortes' alabarda?

Nice.

There's no doubt
about the bardiche

Being a intimidating weapon.

But with the alabarda,

You definitely see flexibility
in the blade.

I think you can keep a guy
at a distance better.

Agreed. We saw how effective
it was against cavalry.

My edge goes to the alabarda.
You know, the bardiche,

It's so heavy,
and you're so slow,

There is no way you
could continue to use that

After, you know, the first,
second, maybe third swing.

My edge goes to the alabarda.

For medium-Range weapons,
edge, Hernan Cortes.

All the weapons were tested

Against each warrior's
body armor.

They were attacked by swords,
battered by polearms,

And assaulted by firearms.

Which armor gives
their warrior an edge?

Cortes' steel plate
or ivan's chain mail with plate?

You've got blades
going against this armor,

And you have matchlocks
going against this armor.

When you're talking
about the blades,

I think there's a slight edge
for cortes

In the fact that cortes' armor
doesn't allow for penetration.

For armor, the edge
goes to Hernan Cortes.

Ivan has taken the edge
in swords and firearms.

But cortes has the advantage
in armor and battleaxes.

Coming up,
the final battle will decide

Who is deadliest--

Ivan the terrible,
the sadistic Russian czar

Whose mounted death squads
dominated Europe,

Or Hernan Cortes,
the renegade explorer

Whose conquistadors savaged
the natives of the new world?

It's a 16th century battle
of the butchers--

Old world Russian czar,
ivan the terrible,

The madman
whose murderous rampage

Transformed Russia from a small
nation state

To the largest empire
in Europe,

Against Hernan Cortes,
the spanish conquistador,

Who built a thousand-Man force
that slaughtered

More than a 1/4 million aztecs,

Destroying the largest empire
in the new world.

Our team has tested
long-Range weapons.

Ivan's pischal blasted its way
past cortes' arquebus.

Oh!

Edge, ivan the terrible.

In medium-Range weapons,
cortes' alabarda

Cut down ivan's bardiche.

Edge, Hernan Cortes.

In close range weapons,
ivan's sablia

Was a cut above
cortes' espada ropera.

Edge, ivan the terrible.

While even against firearms,
cortes' steel plate armor

Had a slight advantage
against blades.

Edge, Hernan Cortes.

All the weapons test data has
been turned over to robert daly

And plugged into
the digital combat engine.

His team of engineers
has also completed

Their historical research
on more than 100 x-Factors.

We evaluate these intangibles
and give them quantities.

We look at x-Factors

Like battlefield experience,
logistics, tenacity, loyalty.

All of these things
are important.

We look at all
the historical data that talks

About their battles,
their fighting styles,

Their techniques, the weapons
that they're using,

And our historians quantify it
into a numeric value

Of 1 to 100.

The psychological health
of these two warriors

Was way off the charts.
Yet ivan the terrible,

This guy could not be rational.
Then you look at Hernan Cortes.

The only reason he was alive
was to get gold.

Anything else in his path
was secondary.

When you're looking
at these leaders,

They do need to be calm in
their decision-Making process

On the battlefield
and when they're making

Strategic decisions.

And this is gonna probably play
a critical role,

Because when you're irrational,

You're going
to make different types

Of decisions than you are
when you're rational.

And that's why we rated
the psychological health

Of these two warriors
so terribly different.

Cortes ended up with a 72
versus ivan's 37.

For me,
it's all about follow-Through

And crushing that battle space.

Dominance is a key factor
that we look at here.

Both ivan and cortes
were very dominating figures.

When you look at ivan,
ivan is just a fear monger.

He is definitely somebody
that you respect

When you're on the battlefield

Because you never know
what he's going to do.

Now when you look
at cortes' side,

It is really fascinating to me

That you can take
a thousand troops

And you can go
against several million

And still come out on top.

We rated cortes an 85,
versus ivan, 78.

So you've dealt
with the x-Factors.

We've entered in the test data.
Let's run the sim.

Ivan the terrible and four
of his oprichniki warriors

Will go head to head
against Hernan Cortes

And four of his conquistadors
in a battle to the death.

[Moaning]

[Moaning]

[Screams]
[Laughs]

fuego!

[Horse whinnies]

[Gunshot]

[Roars]

[Screams]

[Grunts]

[Shouts]

[Yelling]

[Yells]

[Shouts in spanish]

H'ya!

[Horse whinnies]

[Shouts]

[Roars]

[Shouting]

[Shouts in spanish]

After simulating
5,000 battles, cortes wins.

With 2,747 battles won

Versus ivan's 2,253.

In the head-To-Head
weapons comparison,

Cortes' alabarda was more
effective than the bardiche

While ivan's pischal
bested the arquebus

And his sablia
topped the espada ropera.

Although ivan had the advantage
in physicality,

Cortes took most
of the x-Factors,

Including psychological health.

Ivan the terrible is crazy.

The fact of the matter
is he could not lead troops

As effectively as cortes could.

It goes to show you
the x-Factors can work for you

And can work against you.
When you have a bipolar,

Unstable personality,
you're not predictable.

You will lose the ability
to lead your men,

Especially
when it's a tough fight.

I think
ivan has great technology,

It's incrementally ahead
of cortes.

But the thing to look at

Is cortes' ability to hit
his objective and overcome.

[Both shouting]

And this is why I think he wins.

[Shouts in spanish]

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