User blog comment:MrPacheco101/Who's Got The Punchline: The Joker & Team Baskerville/@comment-4661256-20121214004100

'El Alamein's "Wanna Know How I Got These Scars?" Edges and Evaluation:'

Puts on voting gloves. Okay. Let's get started. Pushes glasses further up bridge of nose.

 Weapons Evaluation: 

The Joker is a nasty goon when it comes to weapons, and in a straight-up fight they're useless. But Joker isn't playing out a straight-up fight, and this scenario will show Joker at his most dangerous. His wide cache of explosives are perfect "set-and-forget" tools that he can drop wherever he pleases, for whatever reason (or no reason at all). They bring collateral damage and if he plants multiple bombitas, he'll force Team Baskerville to split up if they want to defuse all the bombs at once. Let's not forget the Joker Gas. If used with some sort of device that can disperse large quantities of this gas over a heavily populated area the results will be catastrophic - people will be dropping where they stand. The more chaos Joker inflicts, the harder it will be for Team Baskerville to operate effectively. Joker has access to an entire city - he can strike where and when he pleases, and with weapons on a destructive scale like the ones he possesses, there's no telling the consequences. Honestly, Joker's other weapons will be useless for the most part because crazy things like acid flowers and razor playing cards aren't effective in a one-on-one fight, never mind a citywide rampage...

Now, let's look at Team Baskerville. A lot of their weapons are brilliant because they're customized, and you only customize a weapon you're really skilled at using. A 3-round burst DEagle, katana that cuts through anything, and an accomplished marksman with the reliable Dragunov (to just scratch the surface of the weapons they're bringing) means I can see the Baskerville Team able to handle situations from long-range scanning and sniping to short-range defense as they try to defuse one of Joker's surprises. My personal favorite is Haimaki, because that means Reki can lay down on a rooftop and look for targets without worrying about being taken by surprise (although I do wish you provided a picture of the wolf). Team Baskerville's weapons are mainly personal defense weapons, and this is excellent given the situation where they'll need to fight off hostiles hiding among a civilian crows - their weapons are compact, quicker on the draw and deadly with high-caliber rounds (.45's and .50 cal's all around!). I think Team Baskerville's loadout makes this job easier than it otherwise would have been.

Overall Weapon Edge: The Joker

Yeah, Team Baskerville's weapons sure help them secure the objective, but the Joker's got such a huge cache of weapons and he's able to use them with such trickery and deception that it's going to end up being too much for Team Baskerville to keep up with. Just as they finish one bomb, another one might go off halfway across the city. It's frustrating work when you have no idea where your enemy is - while Joker can be tracking their every move as he hides among the civilians he's planning to harm.

 Teamwork Evaluation: 

The Joker is not a team player, I'll say it right off the bat. He's a dirty bastard who shoots first and shoots last. However, this is simply not a situation he can tackle by himself, and his 10-12 henchmen are all he needs to keep Team Baskerville on their toes. That being said, Joker's goons are not very deadly on their own, or even in a group - they tend to be street thugs and hitmen who know how to point and shoot a gun but not really aim one. Against Team Baskerville's super-fast reflexes and dead-accurate shooting, they stand no chance, even with a weak element of surprise. But with Joker's direction, they'll be able to set his plan into motion and initiate the chaos that accompanies mass destruction. I'll guarantee one thing though: Joker's goons will not survive this fight. Between Team Baskerville and the Joker himself, they're going to be killed off very quickly.

... let's be honest, Team Baskerville is going to get the edge here, but I did talk about the Joker for the sake of illustrating how he functions when he needs the assistance of others. Team Baskerville, however, has much greater coordination, is going to be much more cooperative, and will be able to respond to emergency situations in a much more calm and collected manner. I don't think it's necessary to explain why Team Baskerville has the advantage here - they work as a team, while the Joker kills his.

Overall Teamwork Edge: Team Baskerville

WINNER: THE JOKER

Team Baskerville is the deadliest team and the deadliest warrior down on an individual level, but this is a scenario far too high-risk and large-scale for them to even hope to take on. They might even kill the Joker (doubtful), but even then they'll already have lost, in a failed attempt to stop the Joker's rampage through Tokyo. It's literally impossible to weed out 13 guys in the middle of one of the largest city in the world, and once decoys and duds are layed out in your path to slow you down, you won't be able to keep up. Team Baskerville will break and fall apart, and some of them will likely die. The Joker is a master at staying in the game against Batman, a brilliant detective, so Team Baskerville won't be too radical of an enemy for him to go up against.