User blog comment:Killermoves/Edward Hogger (Civil War: Secret Missions) vs Nabeshima Mochizuru (Total War Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai)/@comment-35680048-20190325133247

Tybaltcapulet's " SHAMEFUL DISPLAY" Edges:

Melee: Come on, I think we all know that bludgeoning an opponent with your rifle will never beat trained samurai and their Katanas. To actually be lethal Hogger and his men will have to repeatedly bash them, banking on them collapsing and being open for a more lethal weapon. The katana can easily slash and is also decent at stabbing, and is jsut more inherently lethal.Edge: Mochizuru 

Short: I'm gonna give this an even rating. Both pistols have some nice advantages over each other. The S&W has the more reliable rimfire rounds, and Mochizuru and i'm presuming his men have specific ones that reload very quickly. It does suffer in overall power having a .32 round. The Colt has a slower mechanism to reload, and it's ammo isn't as realiable. But it has overall better power so it will put down opponents more efficiently. Edge: Even 

Mid: Ah Colt's little experiment. The Revolving rifle has shown that when it's used efficiently, that its volume of fire can be very hard to deal with, especially within the time period these two come from. That being said the rifle had some serious problems design wise. The rifle had a habit of leaking gunpowder from the cartridges, which would cause all of the rounds to go off at once. Then a bunch of metal would spray the user, hitting their left arm. And this wasn't a rare occurence, it was actually pretty common for these types of weapons. If the user didn't consistently clean the rifle, this was bound to happen. The bow however doesn't suffer from any reliability issues being a bow, and is being used by trained soldiers who have plenty of experience with using it. I see no reason why the bowmen shouldn't be able to get good enough range and rate of fire to be able to make up for the 5 round cylinder.Edge: Mochizuru 

Long: The Henry obviously takes this. It's got every important advantage that it could need. It's got a much faster action, adn more than twice the capacity of the Spencer. This means the Henry will always be quicker to fire, and can fire much longer without having to reload. The Spencer may have the more powerful round, but it's irrelevant when the Henry has so many other distinct advantages over it.Edge: Hogger

Special:  This is pretty close but i'm going to rule in favor of the Chassepot. The Sharps is by no means a horrible single shot weapon, and it's pretty accurate to boot. But the Chassepot is just as accurate, has longer range, and most importantly, just gets off rounds faster. The addition of the bolt-action is a much more fluid and reliable system of firing, while the Sharps still relies upon a old falling block flintlock system which just isn't as fast as the bolt.Edge: Mochizuru 

X-factors/Overall: This is a pretty easy victory for Nabeshima Mochizuru.Mochizuru takes the majority of weapons, with the exception of the Spencer, which isn't a terrible weapon, it's just functionally outclassed by the Henry. And simply put, Mochizuru is the better warrior. This really comes down to leadership, which Hogger isn't really good with this. He's basically just a soldier taking commands from higher ups, and isn't really what one would consider a leader. Mochizuru was able to make his part of Japan quite powerful and has shown his abilities as a leader over and over again. Training and Experience aren't too far apart, so I won't worry too much about that because obviously both of these men are well trained and are well versed in combat.As for supplies, I would argue that Hogger doesn't have as great supplies as one may think. Sure Mochizuru relies upon some old weapons, but that doesn't mean they're worse supplies. In fact they both outlclass the "modern" weapons that Hogger has by simply being more reliable both in regular usage(bow) and lethality(katana). Mochizuru is better armed and a better leader in general, and  will win against the secret agent of the Civil War.

P.S I would highly suggest not having a 5v5 in an open field, as a daimyo like Mochizuru would never just go randomly through a field with just 5 men. I'm also assuming that Hogger could at least keep together more than 5 men if put in charge of the men sent on this mission. Maybe like 20v20 or something more on a large skirmish level.