User blog comment:Pygmy Hippo 2/Leon Trotsky vs. Geronimo/@comment-35680048-20190304032221

Tybaltcapulet's "Daddy Trotsky and the Permanent Revolution: Apache Edition" Edges:

Short Range: I'm giving this to the Spike Bayonet. Don't get me wrong the tomahawk isn't terrible, and will be a nice hacking weapon, but the Bayonet has the nice utility of being able to attach to a rifle, (In this case the Mosin-Nagant), for a 1 2 combo. The Tomahawk can be thrown, but once that happens, the Apache using it has to pray they don't miss, or else they've just lost their only melee.Edge: DADDY TROTSKY

Medium Range: Another easy edge for Trotsky and the Nagant pistol. Not only does it have an extra bullet, but with its double action, Red Army soldiers will be able to operate it at a quicker rate. The Colt SAA is an outdated pistol at this time, and there's a reason double-action revolvers replaced them.Edge: DADDY TROTSKY

Long Range: The Winchester may have a nice 2 round advantage, but there's one area that it heavily suffers in, and that's range. The Mosin Nagant has more than 2 times the range of the Winchester and will be able to use that to it's advantage, being able to consistently pick off Apaches at these ranges. There also comes into question sight picture. A lever-action rifle makes the user have to readjust their aim pretty significantly every time they fire. Bolt-action rifles don't have nearly as big an issue with this as the bolt can smoothly and quickly  be pulled up, back and right on target consistently every time. There's a reason the Soviets produced over 37 million of these babies, and that variants of them are being used to this day.Edge: DADDY TROTSKY

Special: This is tough to me. The Model 1914 certainly relfects the advance of technology over the Bow and Arrow, and will be great for a sort of shock and awe strategy, giving the Apaches a nice dose of Picric acid. The Bow has its own advantages as well, longer range, and warriors who have trained with it their enitre lives and they will certainly be pretty accurate with it. I'm giving this and even rating, as these weapons are suited to enitrely different purposes(Also I thought the M1914 was supposed to have a fragmentation sleeve). The M1914 is better suited to widespread panic and chaos, and the Bow is better for singular targets.Edge: Even

X-factors/Overall: Was there really any doubt that I was gonna give the overall edge to Leon Trotsky? And no this isn't just because of complete and utter Soviet and Trotsky bias, which I am known for, I have real reasons that he wins here. First let's talk about the fact that Geronimo is using weaponry that is pretty antiquated compared to Trotsky's weaponry, which makes sense because he is from a time where this weaponry has been fully realized. The Mosin-Nagant/ Bayonet combo in particular will be a great shock to Geronimo and his Apaches. But more importantly Trotsky in X-factors can keep up enough to keep the battle in his favor. Trotsky is a competent commander with soldiers who have really been through the shit with varying combatants. The Red Army is more organized than the Apaches, especially with Trotsky, you know, the Head of the aformentioned Red Army leading them. Trotsky was able to turn them from a rag-tag group of small independent detachments, into a feared and disciplined army. Geronimo will be very reliant upon his ambushes for success, and if they fail, sustained combat with the Red Army will spell their doom. Trotsky also isn't stupid enough to continue to let Geronimo conduct ambush after ambush, believe it or not, Soviets don't always just simply charge in all willy nilly (unlike certain Rough Rider, future president Theodore Roosevelt, who as the great EA once  said "  ''sent his men in a straight line directly into oncoming enemy fire."). ''This won't be a cakewalk for Trotsky, Geronimo's guerrilla tactics will be a bitch to get used to, but once he acclimates to it, his superior weaponry, organization, and equally competent leadership will win him the day.

Leon Trotsky: 3000

Geronimo: 2000