User blog comment:Cfp3157/Ride Immortal, Beasts of War: Immortan Joe vs. Commandant/@comment-5232784-20160608152323/@comment-4661256-20160610035749

1) GSFB, you still completely missed the point of the "100 meters" thing. Let me try to rephrase it as plainly as possible. Regardless of the distance between the two warriors at the start of the fight, 100 meters will be the most practical distance for either side to start firing from. I don't care if they start two miles away from each other--the longer range of the SKS doesn't make that much of a difference because 440 yards is too far away for the Warboys to be accurate. Maybe I'm still not clear enough, so let me make it absolutely, 100%, perfectly crystal clear:

''RANGE IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR HERE. THE WARBOYS ARE NOT SNIPERS AND THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PIN DOWN COMMANDANT AND HIS MEN AT 440 YARDS. MAGAZINE CAPACITY IS BY FAR THE MORE SIGNIFICANT STATISTIC WHEN IT COMES TO THIS SCENARIO, FOR REASONS LEO, WS, AND I HAVE REPEATED ENDLESSLY ALREADY.''

2) Yeah, GSFB, but the only canonical evidence of combat we have of the Warboys is vehicular-based. Since you like unrelated tangents so much, that would be like me saying, "Well in Star Wars we've only seen the AT-AT crews fight inside their AT-ATs, so we don't know how good or bad they are in ground combat because we haven't seen them actually do it!"

You're wrong with that line of thinking. All this means is that the Warboys have not canonically engaged in an equivalent amount of infantry ground combat as Commandant's men, and you pretending like they could have done it "behind the scenes" is generous extrapolation at best and raw, utter, undiluted bullshit at worst. Right now, you're leaning heavily towards "worst."

3) Good.

4) I don't think this is addressed to me specifically, but it's not really that important either way, so I'll leave it for someone else.

5) Just because they are standing guard on foot outside a place doesn't prove that they are capable of proficiency in infantry-based combat. It just proves that they are capable of standing in one place while looking for enemies. That is called standing guard, which is different from combat. You are comparing ancient "mounted" warriors (knights, Mongols, whatever) to Warboys in a jeep, when in reality a modern warrior trained to operate in a vehicle is a specialist. Tank crews don't just get out of their tanks and fight as infantrymen--modern combat has changed things too much, so this comparison is not valid. The Warboys are vehicular specialists, meaning they utilize things like vehicle armor, speed, and heavy armaments in combat, things which are impossible to use on foot. They will not fight the same on foot as on a vehicle, and that's a fact.

6) "Undernourished" is not the same as "underfed." They may not be starving calorically, but that does not mean that they are receiving the proper nutrients to maintain a healthy body. If I need to go more in-depth to explain this concept to you then I don't really know what else to say.