User blog comment:Master of Awesomeness/Season Premiere: Caçadores vs. Rogers' Rangers/@comment-17814994-20160826163755

Elgb's "Muzzle-Loading Badasses!" EDGES!!!

Long: No contest, the Baker rifle wins. While the musket has the faster rate of fire, the Baker rifle has the advantage in range, accuracy and overall power. A musket only shines the most in a volley formation type of warfare where speed is more essential than accuracy and range. However, in a small squad battle, a baker rifle will be able to slowly snipe the Rangers off one by one. EDGE: Cacadores

Mid: This is a tough one. The pistol has the advantage in range but the blunderbuss has the advantage in power and accuracy. Still, if both weapons go fact to face on the first draw, the guy holding a pistol will be utterly blown away. EDGE: Rangers

Close: The sword offers length advantage while the bayonet offers practicality advantage. The tomahawk can be thrown, but besides that and the knife, they're puny compared to th Cacadores weapons. EDGE: Cacadores

X-Factors: The Cacadoes obviously has the advantage in experience. But in terms of training and tactics the Rangers were a leagues higher than the Protugues riflemen. There's a reason why the word "Rangering", to which Rangers where derived from, is still one of the greatest battle tactics still studied today. The Rangers fought in both conventional and unconventional warfare that the Cacadores would not be expecting. This hard lifestlye also gives the Rangers the edge in physicality, since they trained harder as outdoorsmen away from the confines of the civilized world. EDGE: Rangers

Deadliest Warrior?

It was hard deciding a winner for this battle. The Cacadores obviously has the edge in weapons, but the Rangers has the edge in tactics. The greatest advantage the Cacadores has is their rifle and marksmanship. If they are able to snipe the rangers early in the battle then they could win. However, that's the only advantage they have.

We don't know really where the battle will be taking place so we don't know if the Rangers will have the advantage in the forest. If it does take place in a forest or the outdoors, then the Cacadores' advantage in range and accuracy will be nullified by the dence forestation, and give the Rangers an environmental advantage. But what really sets Rangers to victory is the fact that they have fought and won against regular infantry soldiers like the Cacadores. These Rangers where taught in both conventional and unconventional tactics, and their stealth, guerilla and rangering tactics will catch the Cacadores off guard. These are one of the reasons how Brazil managed to slowly but successfully defeat Portugal during their War for Independence.