User blog comment:Cfp3157/Creatures of the Night: Werewolf vs. Centaur/@comment-4661256-20160818025731

El Alamein's Edges:

 Primary Weapon: Hands vs. Claws:  They both have superhuman strength, so it's pretty much even there (with a possible slight strength advantage going to the werewolf simply because the centaur's human torso will be limited in what it can do compared to a werewolf's ... well, werewolf torso). The hands are important because they enable the centaurs to do things like pick up and use weapons, but the hands themselves are limited weapons. They could certainly strangle a werewolf with that strength (or push one around a bit). However, the werewolf's claws are much sharper and will easily tear through vulnerable flesh. If things get up-close and personal, the centaur is in for a tough fight.

Edge: Werewolf

 Secondary Weapon: Hooves vs. Teeth:  The hooves win, easily. A zebra can kill a lion with a kick from its rear hooves, so if you amplify that kicking power up to eleven when we're talking about a mythological creature with super strength, and you have a veritable howitzer's worth of power packed in those hooves. A pouncing werewolf will get a face-full of death courtesy of a kick. The other thing to keep in mind is that the centaurs can successfully use their hooves to attack both frontally (i.e. rearing up for a forward attack) and in a defensive fashion (i.e. lashing out with the rear hooves at a charging opponent). The teeth are much too short-ranged to be of much use, as the werewolf runs the risk of being attacked by both hooves and hands if it gets that close to the centaur.

Edge: Centaur

 Mental X-Factor:  I'm inclined to give this one to the centaurs simply because what the werewolves have isn't all that special. Centaurs are also group creatures, so it's not like they won't also work together. In fact, I would argue that their ability to work together will be amplified by their intelligence, which will assist them to a degree greater than any animalistic pack mentality could for the werewolves. Speech and abstract thought give way to tactics and strategy, things that give an enormous advantage when the opposing side possesses neither on anything more than an extremely rudimentary level.

Edge: Centaur

 Physical X-Factor:  Again, I have to give this to the centaurs. Weapons are the great equalizer, and historically it's what allowed human hunters to take on animals very similar to the werewolves and survive. Even something like a stone or a wooden club will offer reach advantages, stopping power advantages, and reduce the risk of physical injury inflicted to the self from a blow to the enemy. Canine senses are nice and all, but again, this comes back to animalistic instinct going up against higher intelligence. There's a reason why people with sticks and stones built civilization and wolves with pack mentality and canine senses didn't.

Edge: Centaur

WINNER: CENTAUR

I hope that I'm voting early enough to convince at least a few people to vote for the centaur. In my opinion, not only does the centaur have the undeniable X-Factor edges that give them a win, but they are able to compete physically on a respectable level with the werewolves. While the hands lose out to the claws (this is just the hands by themselves, mind you, to say nothing of their value as tools to hold and use other weapons), the hooves absolutely dominate. They will kill a pouncing werewolf instantly. The werewolves' other advantages aren't really that impressive; the pack mentality is really overshadowed by a much more sophisticated intelligence on the part of the centaurs, while their canine senses are easily beaten by the ability to wield weapons in combat. The centaurs prove that technology (even if it's very rudimentary) and intelligence beat animalistic instincts every time.