User blog comment:Pygmy Hippo 2/Genghis Khan vs. Hernán Cortés/@comment-27358240-20180817050554

Kazanshin "We come, we take, we put a hole in your head" edges:

Swords: As far as I read, the turko-mongolsaber is longer and can cut better. If that's the case, the saber pretty much destroys the espada. Edge: Genghis Khan

Polearms: A spear vs a halberd? No brainer. Edge: Hernan Cortes

Long range: A bow vs a gun? Again, no brainer. Edge: Hernan Cortes

Special: The flanged mace packs a much more powerful punch and is longer. Sure, the main-gauche can be wielded alongside the Espda Ropera, but that doesn't make up for the fact that the mace can quite literally pulverise a skull. Edge: Genghis Khan

Armor: Lamellar isn't always inferior to plate, but in this case, the better quality steel and superior metalurgy of the Spanish wins it. Edge: Hernan Cortes

X-Factors: They're tied in mental health, but Genghis takes physicality and a MASSIVE edge in experience. Hernan wasn't a trained soier and only fought two wars. Genghis fought his enire life, from birth to death. What's more, Hernan's conquest wasn't exactly successful, with him losing half his men in a single battle and relying on native alliances and auxiliaires to make up for it, and the war was pretty much won by the diseases more than anything else. Genghis was never stopped by anybody, whoever they were, until his death. Edge: Genghis Khan

Tactics: Hernan wasn't much of a strategist. The only thing which crossed his mind was "Hey, there's a guy with stones and sticks giving orders. If we shoot him with guns and run over him with horses, he'll die and we'll probably win, right? Also, I want money." while Genghis Khan was a military genius who left his name be known through space and time. He was a master of both field and siege warfare, and the feigned retreat is only one of the many tactics he used to crush his foes.

Final Verdict: This pain me a lot, but in the end, I have to give the victory to Hernan Cortes. Genghis Khan is without a doubt one of my favorite conquerors of history, but he's outmatched by this mentaly inferior man only because of a gap of 300 years of technology, which give Cortes superior steel, a better polearm and the matchlock arquebus. Genghis Khan is by far the better man, but a gun has little respect towards a good man.