User blog comment:Goddess of Despair/Season 6 Battle 2 Nazi Werwolfs vs Alamo Scouts/@comment-5559147-20130830010325

Lets begin as we most often do with weapon edges.

Short Range -

1911 vs Luger. The Luger is a fine weapon, well made, and has the better mag capacity. That said its only better by one round. A difference the 1911 makes up for in spades by firing the more powerfull round and while the Luger as said is a fine weapon. It was in truth being phased out, for being some what out dated compared to other German small arms. The 1911 while of a similar age to the Luger has in some ways not yet shown its age. As it is still regard as one of the toughest most combat effective pistol in the world, favored by a number of law enforcement and military special forces groups for it reliability and firepower.

EDGE: Alamo Scouts, for the M1911

Medium Range -

Thompson vs MP40. The MP40 may have the high capacity, but to what practical effect is unknown. As many of its users chose to not load it magazine to full capacity, because when you did the MP40 had feed issues. That alone is not a good sign. Added to the Thompson more powerful round.

EDGE: Alamo Scouts, for the Thompson.

Long Range -

Garand vs Gewehr 41. On paper they are similar, but thats as far as it goes. Where as the Garand was a smashing success and still highly regard as a weapon. Only about 5,000 41s were actually issued and of those a 5th were sent back for being completly non-functional, even the ones that did work never did so well. In essence what we are looking at is failed expirement vs what was been called "the greatest battle implement ever devised." by Patton. So yeah.

EDGE: Alamo scouts, for the M1 Garand

Now lets discuss the warriors themselves. Th Scouts were a fully trained and equiped unit made up of able bodied men, men with an insane track record when it came to completing missions and not taking casualities. The Werwolfs were on paper a hybrid of a partisan group and a commando unit. In practice they were mostly Hitler Youth and washed up soldiers ( but very loyal to the party ), they were also under equiped, under supplied, and under poor leadership. Not to mention were, to put it mildly less then succesfull in their mission(s).

In other words the reputation of the Werewolfs was created by Nazi propaganda, where as the reputation of the Alamo scouts was fostered by what they did and accomplished.

DEADLIEST WARRIOR: Alamo Scouts. In the end. Its a battle between starving poorly equiped teenagers and one of the most succesfull Special Forces groups, dare I say ever. It should be not to put to fine a point on it, but even with out the weapons edges, an easy win for the Scouts.