User blog comment:El Alamein/White Guard vs. Blackshirts/@comment-26865010-20160220212744

Snigel's '''"Suomi mainittu, torilla tavataan!" '''Edges

Long Range: The Carcano has a larger magazine and a longer range (which is important in rifles). Though the Mosin's bullet will most likely put a guy down if it hits, the Carcano's longer range is the winning factor here.

When i went to America a few years back, i had a chance to fire this gun, but i turned it down. A decision which i regret even to this day.

Edge: Blackshirts

Mid-Range: No contest. I mean, we are talking about the gun that influenced the PPSh. The main difference between the Suomi and the PPSh was that the PPSh had a shorter barrel, that, while reducing weight, decreased the range and accuracy. I think something was done to the receiver too, i think. I got carried away a little, but anyway the Suomi (which everybody who is not finnish pronounces it as "SUE-O-ME", which is funny to me) has the larger magazine and faster rate of fire.

Edge: White Guard

Close Range: Giving this one to the Lahti, for its larger bullet and magazine size, muzzle velocity and reliability. Yes, the Lahti is a very reliable gun that worked reliably in the cold Finnish winters. What is also unique in the Lahti, was that it had a bolt accelerator, something that was more commonly found on machine guns the increase the rate of fire. This allowed it to be reliable. Also, despite that it looks like a Luger, its internal mechanism was very different.

The Swedes used it in as late as the 80's, but the metal they used in them was of lower quality, making them crappier.

Edge: White Guard

Melee: The puukko (which in Finnish translates to "knife") was not a combat knife, it was more of a utility knife, a.k.a a potato peeler. The reason it was used by the White Guard was because everybody had one. In Finland, everybody and their momma knows how to make one. If you are in the Boy Scouts, you are quaranteed to know how to make and how to use a puukko. So, the Blackshirt Dagger wins, and i don't need to point out why.

Edge: Blackshirts

Machine Guns: Larger bullet, faster rate of fire and greater reliability vs lighter weigth and longer range. I will go with the Lahti, another weapon created by Aimo Lahti, a famous Finnish weapon designer.

WINNER: WHITE GUARD!

The White Guard will win this because of superior automatic weapons, which are much reliable, and because of the greater combat experience. The two reasons why the White Guard won the Finnish Civil War are:

1. Because of the military leadership of C.G.E Mannerheim, who was trained in the Russian Czar's military. He would be Finland's general in the Winter War and Second World War/Continuation War. I think he should a page here.

2. During the middle of the war, the Whites got reinforcements in the form of Finnish Jaegers that were trained in Germany. Said Jaegers fought in the frontines and also trained the White Guard soldiers. So the White Guard had better than ordinary militia training.

Note: The people the Whites were fighting against were the communist Red Guard, the poorer people. The Whites were the middle and upper class nationalist people. The Whites received weapons from Germany and the Reds got theirs from the Soviets. The Whites and Reds were almost equal, so that is why the White Guard has greater experience than the Blackshirts.