User blog comment:BattleGames1/BattleGames1's Season of War Episode 1 - Long Range Desert Group vs Easy Company/@comment-5043545-20140422224136/@comment-4661256-20140429153652

Yeah, you're right, Leo, I am probably letting bias get the better of me. Reading what I typed, it looks like a garbled mess of stupid and angry. Let me try to explain what I think everyone is missing, though:

A 36-man skirmish is still relatively low in intensity compared to the large-scale fights usually seen during all of the theaters of combat of WWII - especially when it's just 18 men and a truck on each side. The Long-Ranged Desert Group is a special forces group that's trained, equipped, and mentally prepared for engagements like this - it's exactly how they operated in North Africa. They drew off smaller segments of Rommel's Panzerarmee Afrika that took the bait, fracturing his larger army and breaking up his numerical advantage, allowing Montgomery's 8th Army to close in and finish off the Germans. On the other hand, Easy Company is a regular infantry unit trained for regular infantry battles - and generally, these battles were "advance in the general direction of the enemy and shoot them until they all surrender/are dead." And they had the benefits of artillery support and all the other stuff I listed above. In this fight with those elements removed, they've got one advantage stripped from them. The LRDG, alternately, operated without close support all the time.

So my point is this: yes, teamwork is certainly going to be an aspect in a medium-sized fight (for Deadliest Warrior standards) like this one. But it's ridiculous to assume that the Americans are so much more cooperative than those "bumbling Brits" just because "they were at D-Day." I've tried to explain countless times that the Nazis at D-Day were the exhausted and underequipped reserves who just happened to be stationed in France and not the Italian or Russian fronts, and that their resistance was nothing compared to the brutal fighting that took place in North Africa. Yes, I will admit that I have a bias toward British WWII soldiers, and even more so those who fought in North Africa. However, I believe that I do have sufficient knowledge to defend my position, and I hope that this has helped to clarify my reasoning.