User blog comment:Sir William Of Chalitton/Season 2 Start : Tower Vs Heavy Weapons Guy/@comment-5795750-20140504104832

BG1's "Sounds like Strike Force Heroes vs RED Team is on" Edges:

Melee 1: Fists vs Knife? Obviously the First Blood gets the edge here since as a bladed weapon it can kill with a slice, stab or hack more quickly than a fist bashes

EDGE: Tower

Melee 2: Both weapons are pretty average in terms of killing potential and very fast in speed but I think those boxing gloves of Heavy's makes his hand that bit faster than swinging a wrench. Besides he's dealt with wrench-swinging jackasses people before so if Tower is seen swinging this then he should have no problem

EDGE: Heavy

Pistol: To be honest you should've left this one out but anyway... I'm gonna go all EA on this and say that while the Pistol of TF2 is nice and accurate, it's not as deadly as the M1911 with its larger calibre and overall relatively more reliable in combat; when you want to blow holes into your opponent, sometimes bigger is better (EA might disagree with me but that's one of his voting perks when you bring the M1911 into battle)

EDGE: Tower

Shotgun: Comparing the Remington to the real-life Ithaca, there's not much difference except that with the Ithaca you can fire the gun that bit quicker after reloading (aka slamfire); that said you do make a good point that with the Remington having a bit of a range advantage over the TF2 Ithaca but...

EDGE: Even

Shotgun 2: The fact that the Family Business can knock enemies down as well as damage them severely actually makes the Family Business a good shotgun with a decent range (I mean you can fire it from further away than the USAS and still get the same effect); the USAS is OK as a shotgun to an extent - a full-auto shotgun is not as accurate or effective at medium ranges compared to a shotgun with either semi-auto or pump-action capabilities

EDGE: Heavy (just)

Long: To be fair, the Minigun may be a cool weapon with a great deal of power behind it but at the end of the day, the Heavy is a slow mover with it; the Judgement shotgun that Tower wields however doesn't affect his movement too much and if he places a good shot then Heavy will be damaged severely

EDGE: Tower

Long 2: You know who else has a grenade launcher like the Milkor MGL - the Demoman and since Heavy does know how the Demoman and his grenade launcher operates, he will make sure he doesn't fall into those traps; that said, I've played with the Brass Beast as a Heavy on TF2 and unless you are really confident you don't get killed with it as you slowly trudge your way through the map or if you plan on defending rather than attacking, the Brass Beast isn't a good weapon choice for most players (to me though, it is good to a degree)

EDGE: Even

Special: I have to give it to the Huo Long despite its obvious disadvantage in TF2 - yes the ring of fire around it is very consuming of ammo but hey, it gives that special minigun (or chain gun) an edge over the flamethrower in versatility

EDGE: Heavy

X-Factors: Ignoring Game Health: average of 85 for Tower, average of 95 for Heavy

Adding Game Health: average of 138.75 for Tower, average of 146.25 for Heavy

EDGE: Heavy

(PS Leo is gonna 'kill you' for having X-Factors above 100 :P)

Overall Winner: In this game of tower defence (pun intended), the Heavy might actually win this - since Tower is essentially most of the RED Team rolled into one (most notably the Engineer, the Heavy himself, the Demoman and the Pyro), Heavy should be able to find ways around the variety of weapons the armoured man has on him (since he has fought the BLU Engineer, Heavy, Demoman and Pyro). Tower's armour could be a bit of an issue but since the Heavy has also fought robots (assuming that Mann vs Machine is 'canon') there should be little difficulty.