User blog comment:Deathblade 100/Season 3 Opener: Volkssturm vs Home Guard/@comment-4392864-20160125010713

'We're all that's left to fight? Us Old Women and Beardless Youths? And Craven Dogs?'

It's always interesting when the Last-Ditch forces are put into a fight. Sometimes they put the regular forces to shame. Other times, they just get stomped. The real question I have for this fight is Location; Berlin or London? The reason is simple, a man will fight harder to protect his home, and those of his friends, than he will to take the home of a stranger, for the most part. Since these fighters are, basically, armed citizenry, with some training, the one with the homefield advantage will probably win, if only because they know the location, unlike the invader.

Advantages for the Volkssturm are as follows - Fanaticism and Combat Experience - these guys did do some fighting, and the fact that Hitler tended to have those who were disloyal killed - they were able to stall the Allied invasion of Berlin, for a little bit. That being said, they were hampered by a lack of supplies, what with most of Europe being liberated, and most of the remaining supplies going to the regular forces. It becomes hard to fight without bullets after a while.

Advantages for Home Guard, well, the big one is that fact that the United States was able to send them a great deal of supplies, especially once they joined the war. While the Home Guard might of been hurting in the beginning, the fact that the US was able to send over the needed supplies is what allowed the Allies to win the war, and thus would have allowed the Home Guard to hold off an invasion.

Winner: I see this one being a very close battle, with the question of supply being key here. Overall, I can see the last member of the Home Guard sitting in his house, smoking a cigarette, carefully watching his Volkssturm counterpart trying to conserve his ammunition, while the Home Guard holds out just long enough for the Americans to show up. Winner: Home Guard - but just barely.