User blog comment:SPARTAN 119/The Forged (Fallout 4) VS The Followers of Yermak (DiplexHeated's Wasteland)/@comment-27334870-20171002200905

Dargoo Faust's [REDACTED] EDGES: "One-Off Weirdos"

Handgun - Forged

The forged takes an easy edge here, as the 10mm has more ammunition (which essentially decides most of my edges for mordern pistols), and superior ammunition. While the Makarov certainly has a sleeker design and is probably easier to weild, that doesn't make up for its more pressing disadvantages.

Close Range - Followers of Yermak

My rule of thumb is that conventional firearms are almost always better than a standard flamethrower, and the Fallout 4 Flamethrower is even worse than a standard issue weapon of the type, despite a cooler design. It's tank isn't located on the back, making it a far more clunkier weapon to wield without power armor, and the tank is in bright red and incredibly large (I can see the flamethrowers being actually backwards in terms of helpfulness). In the forest environment, and since many of the forged are in fire-proof clothing, I can see a forest fire happen, and give Yermak some trouble.

Rifle - Tie

Cheeky game design only gets you so far in terms of usefulness. I still think the larger magazine will give the Forge some reasonable advantage over the Followers, however the weapon seems so unwieldy that they'll have trouble taking advantage of their longevity. The AK-47, on the other hand, has a lot more mobility, although they will have to reload more often.

Explosive - Followers of Yermak

The Molatov just seems so unconventional that it just won't reliably kill as much as the gernade. I can see the cocktail give some trouble to the technical should the Followers pull that out, however more often than not the Gernade edges this one out.

Vehicle - Followers of Yermak

Both vehicles are pretty unwieldy in this battle, as the Technical isn't going to have any maneuverability in much of the environment they're fighting in, and the Power Armor just seems like a large clunky target sign on Slag. I'll give this to the Technical only because the mounted gun is going to tear apart the Forged members whenever the vehicle is near, even  though they won't be able to move it around that much.

X-Factors

The forged seem to be some big badasses on paper, but logistically as a group of raiders in a Fallout game, they're pretty straight-forward when it comes to combat. While the forged have capable firearms and pistols, they're pretty darn reliant on flamethrowers in all forms of combat, which severely cripples any tactics they have. The followers, on the other hand, know how to operate covert combat tactics, which will really mess up the Forged when they're trying to run after people with AKs with a bunch of flamethrowers.

Overall I'm going to give this to the Followers of Yermak with few casualties due to their superior tactics and covert training, paired with the Forged incompetent preference to use incendiary weapons.