User blog comment:Cfp3157/Ride Immortal, Beasts of War: Immortan Joe vs. Commandant/@comment-5232784-20160608152323/@comment-4661256-20160609015727

I would argue that Immortan Joe does not have weapons superiority. He does not have a better rifle--as I mentioned to Weew below, most firefights take places within 100 meters or less, and neither of these two groups are known for being snipers or marksmen. The two reasons you give for the SKS' edge are range and accuracy, and while you're not wrong, you're missing the point. Commandant's M1 has more ammo and its lack of scope will actually make it more maneuverable and easier to use at shorter distances, making it a far more practical tool. Saying that a melee weapon will be a deciding factor in a fight involving automatic rifles, light machine guns, and semi-automatic rifles is just plain wrong. So, yeah, Immortan Joe does not have the better rifle and his better melee weapon will not win him the fight by any stretch of the imagination.

Next, X-Factors. Immortan Joe does not have the superior X-Factors. Leadership and logistics are important, yes, but you handily ignore pretty much all the other X-Factors since they clearly go to Commandant. Physicality is actually probably the single most important factor, because the War Boys are in worse condition physically than African rebel soldiers. That's seriously debilitating. This will affect their ability to use heavy weapons with any degree of accuracy or control and it will also affect their stamina and their body's ability to respond to an injury. Commandant also has much more relevant combat experience, as he and his men have fought pretty much in low-intensity small-scale squad engagements, much like the one being depicted here on this blog. Immortan Joe and his men lack that same level of experience for this kind of fight. In my opinion, these X-Factors that Immortan Joe loses are actually way more significant than the more marginal advantages he does have in leadership and logistics, which isn't nearly as one-sided a comparison as the other X-Factors are.