User blog comment:MilenHD/Viet Cong vs Imperial Japanese Army/@comment-5795750-20170228023337

BG1's "Back from the Unknown" Edges:

Short Range: Hmm... a sword vs a machete... well given the battlefield scenario, the machete seems to be the more useful... and you know what because of this I'm actually calling this even because as weapons, the sword is mightier (because of its design as an actual weapon than an improvised one) but the machete is more useful

EDGE: Even

Medium Range: Both guns seem to be very similar in stats although the Nambu has the bigger bullets BUT in terms of performance, the Tokarev is lighter, its bullets have a far deadlier stopping power and AFAIK because it is made as such by the Russians, it is actually more reliable than the Japanese-made Nambu

EDGE: Viet Cong

Long Range: Again two similar types of submachine gun we have here except the MAT can simply blast away at a faster rate (its actually 900rpm) and have two extra bullets in the mag but I think that the Type 100 gets it here because I think that its lower rate of fire means it won't run out of ammo as quickly as the MAT and furthermore, the Type 100 also has a farther effective range than you make it out to be (can fire up to 150m)

EDGE: IJA

Special: I think the DW show has proven that for the Punji stakes to actually work, it needs to be set-up beforehand and as a killing tool its not as good as the good old flamethrower; heck that's one of the reasons why the flamethrower was added to the arsenal of the US Army during the Vietnam War (like the show shows, the flamethrower's own element of surprise cancels out the booby trap surprises of the Viet Cong)

EDGE: IJA

Explosives: Two explosives on the Viet Cong side vs one on the IJA side... I think we can already see who gets the edge here

EDGE: Viet Cong

X-Factors: Average of 89.75 for IJA; Average of 88.75 for Viet Cong

EDGE: IJA (just)

Overall Winner: As much as I want the IJA to win this, this match goes to the Viet Cong - they may be a guerrilla unit in comparison to the IJA but when you look at their weapons and how brutally fought their war with the US Army in Vietnam was, the Viet Cong are better equipped for the fight both logistically in their arsenal and tactically given their mastery of stealth/ambush tactics in the jungle (unconventional vs conventional warfare yo).