User blog:SPARTAN 119/Apache (Viet Cong sniper) vs Ann Matsura (Busou Chuugakusei: Basket Army)

"Apache", the female Viet Cong sniper who also served as a torturer, and struck fear into the hearts of American servicemen by torturing her victims within earshot of their camps.

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Ann Matsura, The Japanese teenager who enrolled in a JROTC-like program at Eastern Private Defense Academy and ended up fighting to defend a secret weapon from a force of foreign mercenaries

WHO IS DEADLIEST?!

=Combatants=

"Apache"
Apache was a female Viet Cong sniper and interrogator known as "Apache", because of her methods of torturing US Marines and ARVN troops and letting them bleed to death.

She was killed in 1966 by Carlos Hathcock, who was part of a sniper team of the United States Marine Corps. His partner, Captain Edward James Land, manned the spotting scope, while Hathcock hit her with both of the rounds that he fired.

In an interview conducted by John Plaster in 1984 and 1985, Hathcock stated that Apache lead a platoon of snipers near Hill 55 and had tortured Marines. In interviews with Hathcock and Captain Edward James Land, conducted by Charles Henderson, Apache was a high profile target according to Military Intelligence. Apache was reportedly known for "torturing prisoners within earshot of U.S. bases", according to C.W.Henderson. The founder of SEAL Team Six, Richard Marcinko, said in 1995 that Hathcock had told him one of Apache's "trademarks" was to cut off her victim's eyelids and keep them as souvenirs. Apache often castrated her captives according to Hathcock in another interview.

Hathcock's encounter with "Apache" was the basis for an episode in the documentary series on The History Channel series titled Sniper: Deadliest Missions.

Apache’s techniques as a sniper are studied even to this day, several of today’s snipers emulate her techniques, and she is even credited to have invented the first ever Ghillie suit.

Ann Matsura
Ann Matsura is a student of the Eastern Private Defense Academy, located in the Japanese Self-Defense Force Fuji Training Grounds and the main cast of the 2011 web-anime series Busou Chuugakusei: Basket Army. The series takes place in 2026, by which point a future Japanese government has created a sort of JROTC-like program that allows students to start training for the JSDF as young as middle school. The story follows and a class of middle schoolers at Eastern Private Defense Academy, who, on the day of their graduation from middle school, are attacked by a mysterious enemy who are after a box containing some sort of experimental weapon. The students are given the box by a dying teacher at the academy and are told to protect it. They manage to secure the box and hole up in the main Eastern Private Defense Academy building, arming themselves and fortifying the building against attack with Claymore mines. It is later revealed that the mysterious enemy are in fact a French private military company, Trident, who have been hired to retrieve the box by an unknown client. At this time, the anime series is ongoing.

The daughter of a rock star and a ceramic artist, Ann's parents were both staunch pacifists. When Ann had a falling out with her family, she left home and enrolled in Eastern Private Defense Academy in an effort to distance herself from them. Ann generally was satisfied with life at the academy, proving herself to be a skilled markswoman, an attribute that would prove useful against the Trident mercenaries. Ann's favored weapon is a Walther WA-2000 sniper rifle.

=Weapons=

Mosin-Nagant ("Apache")
The Mosin–Nagant (Russian: Винтовка Мосина, ISO 9: Vintovka Mosina) is a bolt-action, internal magazine-fed, military rifle invented under the government commission by Russian and Belgian inventors, and used by the armed forces of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and various other nations. It is one of the longest serving bolt action rifles in history, being issued until the 1940s (and up to the 1960s in third world client nations of the USSR). The Mosin-Nagant has an effective range of up to 800 meters with optics, and five-round magazine, though each round must be loaded individually with a sniper variant. The weapon comes standard with a 3.5x PU scope (see below)

Walther WA-2000 (Ann)
The Walther WA-2000 is a semi-automatic .308 Winchester Mag sniper rifle with a range of 700 meters. The weapon has a six-round magazine. The weapon comes standard with a 10x Schmidt and Bender scope (see below). Only 176 WA-2000s were ever produced due to the high cost of production, making the price of a Walther WA-2000 range from $40,000 to $75,000. Exactly where Ann got a hold of such a rifle is unknown, perhaps the same place as the Russian Ultranationalists in Modern Warfare 2!

119's Edge
Ann's Walther WA-2000 for its superior magazine capacity, faster reload, higher rate of fire, and its superior accuracy with its ten times scope.

PU 3.5x scope ("Apache")
The PU scope is a Soviet-made scope typically used with the Mosin-Nagant and SVT-40 rifles. The scope had a "German"-style reticle (see image), which consisted of a central, pointed-ended vertical line, and two horizontal lines coming on either side, with a gap in the middle, where the target would be lined up. The scope has a magnification of 3.5 times.

Schmidt and Bender 2.5-10x scope (Ann)
The Walther WA-2000 was equipped with an adjustable telescopic sight made by German optics company Schmidt and Bender, capable of being set to anywhere between 2.5 and 10 times magnification. The sight has a mil-dot reticle, with multiple angular dots, one below another, moving out both horizontally and vertically from the crosshair. These dots allow for the user to estimate distance to a target and compensate for bullet drop and wind.

119's Edge
Ann's Schmidt and Bender scope for its far higher magnification and for its mil-dot reticle, that allows the user to accurately compensate for windage and bullet drop. =X-Factors=

Explanations
Apache's high killer and brutality are at the highest level, given her position a torturer and her habits of keeping enemies' eyelids as souvenirs, as well her habit of mutilating those unfortunate enough to be taken alive by her, suggest that she likely has a highly sadistic personality. While we cannot know for sure given as little is known about her however, her actions suggest that Apache had at least some degree of mental illness, giving Ann the definite edge in mental health. While Ann is a skilled markswoman, Apache takes a higher score for her greater practical experience, as well as a much higher combat experience score- while Ann did face highly dangerous mercenaries, Apache took out numerous US troops- it took an expert sniper to take her down. Ann however, takes intelligence, she is an average Japanese girl, and is likely better educated, and has taken courses in military tactics at Eastern Private Defense Academy. Ann also has far more advanced weapons technology, as seen above, and, given that this battle will take place on the Fuji Training Ground, she will have a greater knowledge of the terrain. =Location= The match will take place in the Fuji Training Grounds in Japan, near the abandoned building the students of Eastern Private Defense Academy. The training grounds in located in a mountainous area covered in dense temperate mixed forest.