User blog comment:Goddess of Despair/Adolf Hitler vs Fidel Castro/@comment-5232784-20130319033648

Okay, lets have a go:

1. Melee

The Machete is a nasty weapon, capable of taking a man's head off with one swipe (when sharpened enough). However, the flame thrower has better range and more killing power.

Edge: Hitler

2. Pistols

The Walther P-38 is a less advanced weapon than the StarPD ( the latter was invented decades after the former). Yet the P-38 has 2 extra bullets that the StarPD don't have.

EDGE: Hitler

3. small machineguns

The MP-18 has 12 extra rounds compared to the Skorpion, but the latter is smaller, lighter, more maneuverable. The Skorpion looks like the ideal soviet weapo for close combat, yet still I cannot forget the lesser mag.

EDGE: Hitler

4. BIGGER machinguns

The RPD is a lighter weapon, more advanced, yet has less than half the ammo of the MG-42. I have to give it to the latter for ammo superiority

EDGE: Hitler

5. Explosives

Castro takes this: In the heat of battle, you cannot throw a mine at an enemy: you throw grenades. Hoping for your enemy to step on a mine is a bad way to go when you can throw a combustible just right at him, and watch it obliterate him. Sorry Bouncing Betty: you are Bounced!

EDGE: Castro

6. X-Factor

Hitler fought in WW1, that is true, but Castro fought the smart man's war: Guerilla warfare. Hitler may have "Lead" his nation to impressive victories in WW2, but he did not do so as an actual war combatant, and he lost the war in the long run. Castro, on the other hand, defeated a nation with far less resources and men to aid him. Hitler fought in Trench warfare, which led to some of the greatest losses of life due to stupid charge-into-machinegun-fire-with-bayonets-bared tactics (a tactic that likewise proved useless when used against massed cannons in the American Civil War), while Castro fought with Guerilla warfare, outdoing a conventional enemy with unconventional tactics (what one would lose in regular battles, one can triumph in guerilla warfare. Just ask the Vietcong and the Mujahadeen). Castro has the experience, the better tactics, the better training, and it more than makes up for his less than swell weapons comparisons to Adolph.

EDGE: FIDEL CASTRO

In the end, it all comes down to brains, and Castro has them in spades over Hitler, as well as combat experience, tactics (Guerilla vs bayonet-charge-at-machine-guns-and-get-yourselves-shredded-in-the-process-strategies) and brains, as well as comparative success and a die-hard nature (the guy survived several CIA assasination attacks, including an exploding cigar: nah, Hitler ain't gonna have a chance)

FIDEL CASTRO HAMBURGERS HITLER