User blog comment:Kazanshin/火山神の神聖な冒険: Season 1: Deadliest blood/@comment-35680048-20190318022843

Hey Kazzy, don't hate yourself for having a life outside DF and having other shit to do(trust me I get it), but anyways here's my thoughts on who's gonna win these new battles:

Barbarians made heroes: First off, we're starting with two dudes I know almost nothing about. Aterui especially is hard to find info on, because at least for his Gothic opponent, I can find battles where he pretty much spanked the Eastern Romans, or at least put up a damn good fight. I can talk about the Emishi though who also have shown a good fight against technically superior foes, so it's a bit of a wash for now.

Law Enforcement: To me this is an easy victory for the Shinsengumi. Most of the weapons are similar, but when it comes to tactics it's all in favor of the Japanese. They aren't likely to want to leave the safety of the indoors, forcing the Rangers to compensate, and while their supressive fire is impressive, they haven't really used it against such competent opponents such as the Shinsengumi

Another Maori battle :) : Yeah this battle really needed a rematch, what with it's shitty format, use of the god awful stingray spear, and lackluster voting. I'm gonna go with the Maori on this one. All the "long" range options of the Aborigine are literal garbage (I've always despised Atlatl like weapons), and all the up close and personal options don't really stack up to the Maori's in any respect.

YOU ARE A PIRATE: Takeyoshi is most certainly out first, due to his obvious disadvantage in technolgy with his matchlocks and cannons. The Atakabune is certainly an impressive ship for it's time, but compared to the other two, he's a goner. The winner here in my opinion is Cheng Shih, as Blackbeard doesn't have nearly as much experience as her, and Teach was really reliant on opponents being piss scared of him. Cheng Shih commanded a much more impressive pirate ring and fought against more varied opponents in general.

skipping the lolis because I know literally know nothing about em'

Mythological creature time: I've been waiting for another Jiangshi battle for quite a long time(I've even thought of doing a battle with them myself sometime). I also have heard of the Oni in passing (I mean who can forget the massive iron Kanabo club). I kind of wanna lean Oni on this one. The Jiangshi can jump around and try to bite the Oni all they want, but the Oni are known to have some tricks up their sleeves too( I forgot what type of powers you said they had), and don't forget about their freakishly high strength and that kanabo.

Samurai vs Knight: Big Boi edition: I'm not one to really comment here(as again i'm no expert on these guys especiallyYoshitsune), but i'm gonna lean towards Minamoto no Yoshisune here due to the fact that he has more personal experience, and combat experience, where Richard really only had one year to his name.

DW Rematch Musketeers vs Ming Warriors: Yet another irksome battle where they used the elites of the guard Muskeeters against common Mings, making for a pretty unfair battle, along with the horrid Nest of bees crap. It'll also be interesting to see how men you'll use for this battle. This is a much closer battle, but I don't know a whole lot about the Shenjiying so i'll just keep an even verdict until I get more info on them.