User blog comment:Kingjofferyjr/Zande Warrior vs Ninja/@comment-181289-20140910200352

Edge

Long Range:Kpinga The Kpinga has far great killing potientail and is one of few end over end throwing weapons with a high chance of landing blade first. The Shuriken lack the ability to kill and will only aid in minot injuries or distraction if they hit the target, the Kpinga will out right kill or ate least severly injure the target with it lands a hit. Add that the Kpinga, if need be, can makea useful meele weapon like a hand axe, it is clearly the superior killing tool.

Mid Range:Makrigga Agains a matter of incapcitating or distraction vs killing. The Black egg is not in itself going to kill the target, the spear will. While the barbs are deadly, they really aren't needed to get a kill, but they do allow for even minor injuries to a limb to be much more severe. The Black egg gives the Ninja help in an overall sense but not on a pure weapon to weapon bases. Again the Edge goes to the superior killing tool.

Close Range: Ninjato In a more gneral sense, these are similar weapons but on examination the Ninjato is far superior. For starters it's composition is steel as opposed to iron. While not extremly important, steel is a superior version of iron, giving the ninjato an edge over it. Then their is the design, the ninjato is longer and much more versitile, allowing for slashing and stabing attack, the Makrakas design makes it only capable for cutting or chopping attacks well, it's can thrust or stab very well do the the large arc in the blade.

Speacial:Kusarigama The Kusarigama is by far the most versitile weapon in fight. It can trip, tangle, bludgen, choke, slash and chop. The Botto and Pim may have a range advantage, but the Zande warrior only get's two chance to hit his target after that, the weapon is useless. And angile warrior can avoid arrows, so even if the Ninja doesn't have armor, the low velocity of the arrows make's hard to hit a moving target that knows it's being tracked. Even with posion arrows, it won't do any good if he can't hit his target, and with so few chances, this really hurt's it's affectiveness as a weapon.

X-factors:Draw The average of the X-factors is to close to make much of a difference overall.

Overall Winner:Zande Actully a really tough choice for me, alost to close to call. But the Zande get's the win in the end for a few reason, evne then it's just barely. The only weapon I see that the Ninja's has this is truly superior is the Kusarigama. The black eggs and Shuriken won't get any kills, and the while the Ninjato is superior to the Makraka on a one to one bases, once combined with the larger reach and strength of the Zande, and the defense of the sheild, the advantages lessens on the whole. And Kusarigama isn't enough on it's own to win the battle on it's own, and despite being a fantatics weapon, it's more complex function means it also has a higher chance of having a critcal failure, and can't be used to it's full potiantail in every type of terrain, narrow area streets, wooded areas or inside buildings mean the ball and chain cna't be used.

Fianlly their the differnt mentality of both warriors, The Zande is a true warrior, the Ninja is an assassin. The ninja can fight very well if he has to, but is mostly trained to kill unoticed and escape, the whole point is to avoid getting into a fight if at all possible, unlike the Zande. The Ninja will leave the Zande blooded and beatan, but is to specialized to win more often than not