User blog comment:El Alamein/Amon Goeth vs. Hans Landa/@comment-3127606-20130113171041

It's time for MB's "My favorite actor vs my favorite villain" edges:

Close Range: Edge-Landa: The walther has a larger caliber bullet, meaning it will kill faster and you'll use less ammo killing.

Mid Range: Edge-Landa: More ammo, better rate of fire, and it replaced the MP28 didn't it?

Long Range: Edge-Even: The Kar98k is more damaging, but Goethes accuracy with the Mannlicher makes up for that.

Melee: Edge-Landa: He has 2 weapons to use. When you have multiple weapons, you can worry less about losing weapons. But not much.

Explosives: Edge-Even: Its the same grenade.

X-Factors:

Psychological warfare: Edge-Goethe: If this wasn't a battle scenario, then Landa would take this easily. His calm, methodical way of speaking to his prisoners is unnerving and could make almost anyone talk. But as this is a battle scenario, there won't be any sitdowns. Goethe is a violent, psychologically deranged man. There's a reason Oskar Schindler was afraid of him.

Strategy: Edge-Landa: Goethe, while he did draw up the plans for the Krakow liquidation, that was just one plan that was almost guaranteed to work. Landa, on the other hand is a master planner. He plans ahead, and his plans actually work.

Combat Experience: Edge-Landa: Goethe was just a camp commandant. Landa on the other hand, was a WWI veteran. And he didn't get the nickname "The Jew Hunter" for nothing.

Endurance: Edge-Even: We don't know how much these two men can take.

Intelligence: Edge-Landa: This goes with the strategy x-factor. Landa was able to deduce the basterds' plan. He knew the farmer was hiding Jews just by the way the man spoke about them. And the man knows 4 languages. If that doesn't scream genius I don't know what does.

Creativity: Edge-Even: Both men have showed their creativity in their brutality.

Weapon Use: Edge-Goethe: Goethe is an expert shot, and is capable of a headshot of up to 500 yards (guestimating). That's some Lee Harvey Oswald s**t right there.

Brutality: Edge-Goethe: The man is a true f*****g sociopath in every sense of the word. Goethe shoots Jews just to work up an appetite. He shot a Jewish woman just because he was neutral about her.

WINNER: Hans Landa