User blog comment:Cfp3157/Season 1 Episode 9: Oda Nobunaga vs Francisco Pizarro/@comment-4661256-20120812041738

'El Alamein's "It's so Gold Down Here in South America, I Should Have Brought my Jacket!" Edges:'

 Close Range: Espada Ropera vs. Katana:  The Espada Ropera is longer and can thrust and slash, as well as be used on horseback. The Katana is a beautiful slashing sword, but it's outmatched by the longer and far more versatile Espada Ropera.

Edge: Francisco Pizarro

 Mid Range: Alabarda vs. Yari:  The Yari is a single-edged spear, and it's a decent weapon, but the Alabarda has not only a spear-point, but a hook and an axehead. It's simply more versatile.

Edge: Francisco Pizarro

Long Range: Crossbow vs. Yumi  :  The Yumi can be fired faster and with greater accuracy, since Samurai warriors were more trained with the bow than Conquistadors were with the crossbow.

Edge: Oda Nobunaga

 Special Weapons: Arquebus vs. Tanegashima:  You Samurai fanboys are a pain in the ass with that " front sight gives it a slight accuracy advantage " bullcrap. It's a freaking matchlock musket, and the fact that you need a stand and the smoke it throws up that obscures your vision afterwards and the slow-burning match make it an awful weapon in a one-on-one or even a five-on-five. Guns were the samurai's undoing and it was what let Pizarro steamroll through South America.

Edge: Francisco Pizarro

WINNER: FRANCISCO PIZARRO

It's clear that Nobunaga has more skill with his weapons but Pizarro's technology advantage is too great to ignore. I know that they all have steel and gunpowder but my point is, that Pizarro's mindset it that he's superior because of the technology, while all of these new weapons are going to be Nobunaga's undoing. Pizarro's dominant with the Arquebus and Alabarda, and he's got a minor edge at close range, and that's all he'll need to win this fight. Plus, he's an experience horseback warrior... so that won't hurt at all either.