User blog comment:Elgb333/Season 1 Finale: Cowboys vs Cossacks/@comment-379205-20150426000306

119's "CHARGE!" Edges


 * Melee: Both weapons were deadly at close range, and capable of attacking in variety of ways, including cutting and thrusting. Edge: Even.


 * Handguns: If this was a single vs single handgun fight, the Nagant would have the edge of capacity and rate of fire, but with two Colts, the cowboys regain their rate of fire and capacity advantages while still taking stopping power. Edge: Cowboys


 * Rifles: The Winchester is easier to the use on horseback and has a larger magazine, however, that comes at the cost of firing less powerful cartridges with more in common with a modern pistol than a modern rifle. The Mosin-Nagant, on the other hand, used a modern "spitzer" cartridge capable of flying at supersonic speeds at over twice the range of the Winchester. Edge: Cossacks.


 * Rifles 2: The Sharps has a longer range, giving it the advantage as a sniper weapon over the Berdan.


 * X-Factors: Initially, I would have given this to the Cossacks, but they were quite as experienced and trained as I thought. Also, Cowboys, as anon below me said, could be rowdy, were still disciplined- did not drink or use opium on the job were generally hard working, skilled, had a sense of how to survive and able to take on rustlers, Indians, and would have served in the Civil, Spanish-American War, and many of the later generation would go on to serve in World War I. On the other hand, the Cossacks had outdated training methods and were known to make suicidal charges against orders. Edge: Cowboys.

Overall Winner: Cowboys, thanks to their superior sidearms and X-factors.