User blog comment:Cfp3157/Season 3 Episode 3: Assassins vs. Merry Men/@comment-5795750-20130419064009

BG1's "Stealing and Taking Lives is our Business" Edges

Short: Looking at both daggers and the stats for them, I have to give the short blade the edge here because it is more versatile and it has a little curviness to it allowing for greater speed

EDGE: Assassins

Medium: The Syrian Sabre to me looks like a mix of a scimitar and katana and thus has an advantage with speed but the longsword will be able to deflect those blows plus it can be used two-handedly allowing for harder and more lethal blows

EDGE: Merry Men

Long: Both groups of men are very skilled with these weapons but I have to give it to the longbow because it has a much greater range than the knives, plus the knives are gonna be hard to retrieve to resupply whereas Robin and his men are well equipped with a lot of arrows

EDGE: Merry Men

Special: Both weapons require the person to be up close but the Warhammer has a greater reach than the blade. With regards to the gun, it is necessarily a one-shot weapon here whereas the warhammer can be used multiple times. Sure the gun is hard to knock out of Altair's sleeve in much the same way the blade is hard to knock off an Assassin's sleeve but it will take a long time to reload the gun or resheathe the knife

EDGE: Merry Men

X-Factors: 76.7 average for the Merry Men, 80 for the Assassins

EDGE: Assassins

Overall Winner: I'm going against the tide here and say that the Merry Men have this one in the bag. Sure the Assassins are fast and stealthy but sooner or later, this battle is going to erupt into open warfare which the Merry Men are good at. Also, with Robin Hood at the helm, the Merry Men will work better as a team with their weapons (the Longbow perhaps playing a greater role than ever since the Merry Men + Robin are excellent marksmen with it). Sure the Assassins are good strategists but maybe the Merry Men with their unpredictability will counter this. One thing to note though is where is the battle taking place - Nottingham Forest, Jerusalem or somewhere in between?