User blog comment:Goddess of Despair/Season 4 battle 2 Conquistador vs Musketeer (rematch)/@comment-5232784-20130216205436

Okay, lets get this on

1. Short range

The Rapier has the length advantage, but the Espada Ropera is a lighter weapon, meaning it can be potentially wielded faster. Still, I give it to the Rapier for range advantage.

Also, the Musketeer has an extra short range weapon: the Main Gauche. I think this is some type of dagger. However, no matter what kind of weapon it is, it is still giving the Musketeer a two to one advantage over the Conquistadores

EDGE: Musketeer

2. Mid range

Though the Musketeer's Pike has greater range by far than the Alabarda, it is huge, heavy, and clumsy. The Alabarda on the other hand can be used more nimbly, with more leverage, and unlike the Musketeers, Conquistadors rode horses often, and they could utilize such animals to better grip and use their Alabardas, like Knights with Lances.

Yet the Pike would prove the downfall of the Conquistadors if the Conquistadors charged: the pike was a major counter to mounted Cavalry. Pikemen, in good formation and well trained and disciplined, would make human wreckage of charging Knights. Even War Elephants could be bested by Infantry bearing huge Sarissa spears; In the battle of the Hydaspes, Alexander's Phalanx pulled off a victory against the Indians who had over 200 war elephants. The Battle was costly to the Macedonians, both in numbers killed (12,000), wounded, and mentally scarred, but they won. I see therefore that the Pike, in the hand of superb ground troops like Musketeers, will be able to stop charging Conquistadors on horseback.

Against ground Conquistadors, however, it will prove less the weapon.

EDGE: Dead Even

3. Long range

The Flintock Musket has bigger bullets and weighs less than the Arquebus. I do not know the comparative ranges of these weapons, But I I would conclude that the Arquebus is inferior due to weight (Remember, Conquistadors will have more armor and will be weighed down a tad more than the Musketeers) and smaller bullets

EDGE: Musketeers

Special:

No contest here. The Conquistador's crossbow has more range, more power, and is more reliable than the wheelock pistol. Not-even-close. Its like comparing A Navy Seal to Will Ferrel.

EDGE: Conquistador

I give this to the Musketeers: they have superior Flintock Muskets, swords, and in terms of cavalry vs pike wielding infantrymen, better tactics. No way they will lose

MUSKETEERS WIN! All for one, and one for all!!!!!!!!