User blog comment:El Alamein/White Guard vs. Blackshirts/@comment-17814994-20160220051109

Elgb's "No Redshirts?" EDGES!!!

Rifle: Damn. I can't believe I'm actually voting against the legendary Mosin Nagant here. The carcano rifle beats the Mosin Nagant in range, magazine count and probably rate of fire. The only problem the Carcano rifle has is its straight pull bolt, which is more diffcult to sue than traditional bolt-actions. In terms of power, the Mosin Nagant has the edge, but that's just it. EDGE: Whites

SMG: Both submachine guns are "drum" magazine fed. But the Suomi has the larger magazine and rate of fire. The MAB has the longer range, but one thing I'd like to point out is that its very prone to jamming in a gunfight. Not good for a submachine gun. EDGE: Whites

Close: These two pistols aren't the best at what they do. The Beretta is definately the more reliable weapon here, with its lesser parts and robust design. The Luger has two many complicated parts that are ahrder to maintain and chamber. Both pistols also sucks at reloading (kinda primitive for semi-autos of its time), due to the Luger's chambering mechanism and the Beretta's problem of having to pull the slide back every reload. The Luger on the other hand, even though it's one of the most innacurate pistols in the world, has the larger bullet and larger magazine. That's something people should be looking for in a pistol. EDGE: Whites

Melee: The Puuko doesn't even look anything like a military knife. From what I can describe it, it looks more like a frigging potato peeler or something market vendors would use to peel fruit. It doesn't have a guard and the blade is puny. The dagger is the one designed as a combat knife. Just one look at you'd automatically know that its longer and slimmer blade is to gut people, not peel damn fruits. EDGE: Blacks

LMG: No contest the edge goes straight to the Lahti Saloranta. The Breda Modello is a crappy machine gun that breaks easily in combat. I respect that it caused devastation in the Mediterranean Theatre but surely any machine gun superior than this can do better. And the Lahti is one of them. The Finnish machine gun is fed with a more reliable box magazine as opposed to the stripper clips of the Breda. Stripper clips aren't reliable for machine guns, and they are harder to reload and more hassle to insert (Just see the Japanese Type 11). The Breda not only has the faster rate of fire, but also a pistol grip so that it can be propped and fired more accurately. In machine guns, accuracy and rate of fire is more important, and the Finnish commits. EDGE: Whites

X-Factors: I'm gonna have to disagree on the training. While the Black Shirts were paramilitary, they did cross-trained with the Wermacht and the SS. In terms of experience and combat effectiveness, the Whites win this. They ahve fought in more wars. While one can argue that the Blacks made the Mediterranean a living hell for the US in their invasion (especially the slaughter they did with the US' legendary 1st Infantry Division), the Whites fought the Soviets and unlike the Blacks, they won. Brutality is even for me, they both devastated their enemies, and while the Blacks brutalized their political opponents, the Whites also brutalized any Russians they came across in its history, either armed or unarmed. EDGE: Whites

Deadliest Warrior?

First, I'm gonna thank the White Guard and the whole Finnish Army for giving us one of the greatest snipers in history Simo Haya. Hell, even one of this Fins evenbecame a legend/forebrother of the United States Special Forces. So it was an honor to finally vote for them in a battle.

Anyways, as you can see the White Guards obviosuly win. The Black Shirts may have the better training, but their weapons just... sucked. The White Guards were better experienced and armed. And while both groups fought the armies of the world's superpowers, the White Guards are the ones who are more successful in their battles.