User blog comment:Cfp3157/Guerilla Warfare Tourney- Round One: The Desert Fox vs Celina Lucyna/@comment-5559147-20130116160946

I am going to point this out just for the fun of it and then leave it alone. How does Celina at 20 have 5yrs experience in GROM. Did she join the military when she was 15, well actually more like 13 'cause normally special forces unit don't recruit straight out of training.

Edges Time,

Melee - The sagaris has the reach advantage and is likely to do more damage on any given swing that said. It made of a weaker material and is going to suffer more maintainence issues over time, its also heavier. EDGE: Even

Pistol - Fox's 1911 may have more rounds, but the kind of modifications required to pull this off are going to cause weight, balance, ergonomic, and possible feed/general reliability issues to a weapon like the 1911. That said doubling the mag capacity is gonna be a huge advantage. EDGE: The Desert Fox.

SMG - The MP7 may have the advantage in range, though given the shape of the weapon I'd question whether its operational range was actually that far. It also holds a few more rounds. That said the UMP .45 fires the more powerful round and has better ergonomics in my estimation and the major difference, Celina and company are modern soldiers who cut their teeth on weapons like this, not World War 2 soldiers trying to adapt to new weapons. EDGE: Celina

Rifles - They are almost the same weapon. Yes Fox's is modieified, but I fear in some ways a full auto rifle may be a detrement to a WWII soldiers who is going to have the same kind of fire discipline which is an issue thats been run into just about every time you introduce a rapid fire weapon to a group doesn't have much experience with them. In fact the last 5 rounds going to semi-auto suggest a mentality toward the lay down as many rounds as you can approach to combat. Instead of picking targets etc. I also imagine the sudden shift to semi-auto if you're not keeping track of your shots and the indication is that they are not. Is goin to be jarring and in the heat battle thats gonna be bad. Also similar to the points above about modern soldiers having more experience with modern weapons, but even more so because GROM actually used to use the M4. EDGE: Celina

LMGs - The 249 has the higher rate of fire, longer range, and  is carrying more rounds. Also the FN platform has had far less mechanical/reliability issues over time then the AR varients like the Colt.

Sniper Rifles - The Barret may have a higer rate of fire. Seeing as how its  semi-auto, but the Vidhwansak has the longer range, more powerful round, and not by much but the bigger magazine. EDGE - Desert Fox

Explosives - The bouncing betty is going to be easier to deploy and may be more lethal as a straight anti-personel weapon. That said in the hands of experienced trained operator like the person involved in this fight the C4 provides more options. EDGE: Celina.

I'm not normally a big fan of X-Factors, but here it goes

Training - Celina is trained in modern small unit combat, which is the kind of combat we are looking at. A 5 person team is not an unreasonable size for a modern unit, but its 3 to 7 soldiers less then what most armies fielded as their smallest units in the 40's. Not to mentioned. The world has also learned alot about conducting war, ecspecialy with modern weapons in the years sence The Desert Fox was trained and Celinas training is going to benifit from those lessons. I'm going to have to rate her training as higher in an engagment like this.

Physicality - We don't know a lot about these 2 physically, but we do know ones a man and the others a woman and that biology normaly favors the man in terms of size and strength, though resistance to pressure ( such as g-force ) and pain tolorance often higher in women. We do know a couple other things about these 2 though, well one of them anyway. The Desert Fox has some serious hygiene issues, that over the long term I imagine are going to effect his health and indicate that he generally doesn't take care of himself, health wise. He is also going to uncomfortable often, which is going to drain him physically and distract him. As for his finger nails. He better have a fighting style devoid of punching 'cause claws like that are going to make well formed punch at best more painfull to him then his opponent and at best impossible, in fact their gonna get in the way of all sorts of menial things. Well anything involving fine moter skills of the hands really up to and including weapon operation. So based purely on gender Fox probably starts out rated higher, but loses some for not looking after himself. Making this kind of a wash in my mind.

Weapons - I talked about this briefly in the edges, but Celina and company are going to have a lot more training and practical experience with the kinds of weapons they have. The Desert Fox would have probably been better off sticking to WWII era weapons, weapons him and his men would be more comfortable with. So yeah, gonna have to rate Celina higher on this one too.

Leadership - This is hard to tell, but we do know Celinas gonna have more experience with this kind of combat and that she is very close to her crew, they've had more time to learn her ways and her theirs, more to for respect and understanding to grow etc. In others fords this catagory also favors Celina.

Training - Celinas band has the modern training, again traing probably better suited to this fight. Though Fox's team is all going have the same kind of training and possibly more time spent training together. Though Celinas squad being close friends and family negates much of the advantage that would provide and its more varied training provides more options. This one is damn close, but I'd have to favor Celina.

WINNER: Celina Lucyna. She is a modern soldier using modern weapons, trained for this type of conflict, leading a very tight neat group of people.