User blog comment:SPARTAN 119/Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck VS Roman von Ungern-Sternberg/@comment-17814994-20171210170729

Elgb's "WWI Yet Again" EDGES!!!

I'm gonna skip the weapons edges and make my battle short (feel free to rate it as it is Spartan). And my vote easily goes to Vorbeck. Its a no brainer, the guy took on the British, Belgian, Portuguese and the East Africans and defeated them all. I do respect the Mad Baron for being able to beat the Chinese and winning battles in the First World War and in the Russian Civil War, but  Sternburg was nothing more than a power hungry conqueror-wannabe who lost in the end due to his recklesness.

Simply put, Vorbeck was once outnmbered 8 to 1 during the Battle of Tanga, and still managed to claim victory by outsmarting his enemies into dispersing their troops into the jungle and hitting them with guerrilla warfare. Sternberg managed to win most of his engagements by brute force alone which is a very poor strategy to use against a seasonal tactician like Vorbeck. Vorbeck was much smarter while Sternberg suffers from a lot of mental health issues.

Combine other of Vorbeck's advantages such as having the better rifles and machine gun and there's no doubt that the German is going to crush the mad Russian (becuase really what's up with Russia and its mentally usntable leaders like Ivan and Stalin?).