12 Untrained Strongmen vs a Silverback Gorilla. Which side wins?

Strongmen, pretty confident.

Club punch to the back of the head on one of the guys standing in front. Gorilla attacks the downed man. The other 11 swarm and pin down the gorilla.
 
In an unarmed scrap, the gorilla wins every time. There's a reason why our brains had to develop back in caveman days. Cavemen were getting their asses handed to them. One day one of them picks up a stick and clobbers his prey, or stabs a moose or something, and boom, the ideas start to flow through the caveman like leaves of grass flowing through his digestive system. And the human brain starts to grow.
 
kurtwpg said:
Strongmen via gameplan and teamwork.
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This, and there are several strategies that might work. Assuming a total commitment- these guys know they are doomed- they know that and the gorilla does not understand. All he can do is rage out impressively for a few minutes and then fold. If they come at him like an 80's karate movie, sure the gorilla bitchslaps every one of them.

If the people skirmish with him by rushing him from behind in groups of 3 and scatter when he charges (gorillas are probably a touch more than 1.5 times as fast as a big guy at top speed), the gorilla is going to get tired very quickly and a couple people will probably get hurt. The gorilla will break psychologically after some time and give up like a lion to a pack of hyenas.

If they all rush him at once it's going to be ugly, but 12 strong men can overpower it limb by limb, and again, tire it out with the loss of maybe one or two of them. If one gets got, they can always regroup.

Hell, they can sit around doing nothing and wait for the fucker to fall asleep if they want to. Treat it like a dog, find its reactive distance and spend a few hours closing that distance and making the gorilla as comfortable as possible.

I'm confident in 12 winning, but I wonder what the number is that just stands no fucking chance in unarmed combat. Probably 5?
 
GrizzlyTitan said:
That was just the opinion of some dude, based on an exaggeration of Chimp strenght though.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2009/02/how_strong_is_a_chimpanzee.html

Chimps are strong. Not 5-8 times stronger than humans though.
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Ok, thanks.

Also, this isn't about a chimp in this scenario. The thread stated it was to be a fully matured (silverback) gorilla.

Here's some testimony by someone who works with them on a regular basis (it's only over a minute) :

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgelrv_gorilla-facts-how-strong-are-gorillas_lifestyle



He and his scientist peers estimate 10x stronger than a man. He estimates even more if it's angry
 
Fawlty said:
I wonder what the number is that just stands no fucking chance in unarmed combat. Probably 5?
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Given we've got Japanese sexagenarians judo-flipping the shit out of woodland bears and tanuki, I gotta think even one's got a puncher's chance. Three could survive on more than just luck. But none are a guaranteed victory. Not even twelve.
 
Three Gun Fish said:
Given we've got Japanese sexagenarians judo-flipping the shit out of woodland bears and tanuki, I gotta think even one's got a puncher's chance. Three could survive on more than just luck. But none are a guaranteed victory. Not even twelve.
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It's not too much to just applaud the hell out of you right now for this sentence fragment, is it?
 
Asiatic bears are cans.

I threw a soup can at a black bear when I was 10, bopped him right on his little nose and he ran away with the quickness.

Who's the real hero?
 
Fawlty said:
It's not too much to just applaud the hell out of you right now for this sentence fragment, is it?
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I know what I'm you tubbin when I get home l m f a o. well chuckling really that uchi mata on a bear by an old dude is one helluva mental gif.
 
Perhaps the gorilla is like Brock and doesn't like being punched to the face. Perhaps gorilla responds by removing strongman's face.
 
Gorillas are extremely strong, but are they really violent? I mean, like chimpanzees, which can gough your eyes out and rip your arms just for the hell of it?
 
I can't believe how many people are picking the gorilla. You have 12 humans. 12 humans that have peak human strength. The 12 humans come from a species that have designed satellites and put a remote control car on Mars. Oh, this species is also the most violent species on the planet. They can figure out a way to outsmart an animal that's biggest intellectual break through is shoving a stick in a hole to make an ant popsicle. There is no way the gorilla is the last man standing.
 
platfox said:
I can't believe how many people are picking the gorilla. You have 12 humans. 12 humans that have peak human strength. The 12 humans come from a species that have designed satellites and put a remote control car on Mars. Oh, this species is also the most violent species on the planet. They can figure out a way to outsmart an animal that's biggest intellectual break through is shoving a stick in a hole to make an ant popsicle. There is no way the gorilla is the last man standing.
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Put the worlds smartest chicken in a cage with the worlds dumbest lion and see what happens.

That's no comment on this hypothetical scenario. I just like that quote. Carry on.
 
Also, is there a reward for the humans or are they just fighting for their lives? I think the humans could devise some kind of stretegy if they aren't in a high stress, life or death situation.

It's not that people are overrating the gorillas, but they are underrating the humans too much.
 
Bald1 said:
Put the worlds smartest chicken in a cage with the worlds dumbest lion and see what happens.

That's no comment on this hypothetical scenario. I just like that quote. Carry on.
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Lol.
 
Dreaming Dead said:
Also, is there a reward for the humans or are they just fighting for their lives? I think the humans could devise some kind of stretegy if they aren't in a high stress, life or death situation.

It's not that people are overrating the gorillas, but they are underrating the humans too much.
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without weapons, there isn't much the humans can really do. Give them 10 minutes in a forest to plan and create and the gorrilla would be dinner.
 
platfox said:
I can't believe how many people are picking the gorilla. You have 12 humans. 12 humans that have peak human strength. The 12 humans come from a species that have designed satellites and put a remote control car on Mars. Oh, this species is also the most violent species on the planet. They can figure out a way to outsmart an animal that's biggest intellectual break through is shoving a stick in a hole to make an ant popsicle. There is no way the gorilla is the last man standing.
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total fucks given by gorilla concerning satellites, remote control toys on mars, atom splitting, dna sequencing, etc = zero
 
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