User blog comment:SPARTAN 119/Blair Mountain Rebels VS Black Eagle Rebels/@comment-17814994-20170511121217

Elgb's "You Better Bolt When The Peasants Revolt!" EDGES!!!

Melee: Easy edge to the pitchfork. The pickaxe, though deadly with its more powerful swings, is still a heavy and cumbersome weapon. Every heavy strike it does can be dodged and leaves the Blair rebel open for counterattack. The Pitchfork is the easier weapon to use, and its three prongs are like a trident that can skewer and disembowl an enemy more efficiently than the pickaxe. EDGE: Black Eagles

Handguns: Odd choices for pistols you have here Spartan. I doubt the Blair Mountain Rebel would use such an out of date single action Smith and Wesson; they probably would have used the more common Double Action Colt Revolvers. Anyways, while the Smith and Wesson has the larger bullet, the Nagant still has more stopping power with its gas-seal mechanism. In the end though, I still give the Schofield weapon the edge here since its a top-break revolver which makes it easier to reload than the fixed cylinder of the Nagant which was almost unreloadable in combat. EDGE: Blair Rebels

Rifles: Easy edge to the classic Springfield M1903 due to its longer range. While the Mosin Nagant has the more powerful round, both are devastating rifles so it will end up boiling down to range. With the Springfield, the Blairs can snipe the Eagles off from a distance before they can get close. EDGE: Blair Rebels

Explosive: Again man, odd choices. I doubt the Black Eagles would have access to these grenades knowing that they themselves have trouble trying to get firearms in the first place. Anyways, I still give it to the grenade beaacuse its more reliable than the dynamite and has a more controlled explosion than the volatile TNT. EDGE: Black Eagles

Deadliest Warrior?

I have to give this to the Blair Mountain Rebels in one earned stomp due to the fact that, not only do they have the better weapons, but they are also better supplied and resourced than most of the Black Eagles who don't even have access to firearms.

But what gives the Blair Mountain Rebel the edge here is in the x-factors. Both warriors fought against enemies that were better armed and better supplied than them, but between the two it was the Blair Mountain Rebel who succesfully won their fight (albeit politically). Yeah it took them years to accomplish that after their defeat at Blair Mountain, but they did put up a good fight that showed their own country the hardships that these common workers felt. The Black Eagles are more like a mob, and they were eventually wiped out unprepared and in a rather short amount of time. In the end, the Black Eagles will be flying a different set of wings once the Blair Mountains put a couple on each of their heads.

P.S. Damn it Spartan. I was going to use the Blair Mountain Rebels in my next battle and you beat me to it XD