User blog comment:Kazanshin/"But why? Why would you do that?" Gungan vs Tusken Raider/@comment-39845974-20191215164324

Slug-Thrower vs Cesta and Booma. The slug thrower is a much longer ranged weapon. But it also falls behind in the areas of being able to go through the Gungan defences, as I mentioned in my previous comment. The Slug-Thrower doesn't have what it takes go through the Gungan deflector shield, it being a fast moving projectile and shield being able to block fasting moving projectiles. This is made worse by the fact that Gungans move in shield walls similar to the greek Phalanx, making it fairly hard to actually score a hit through the shield wall. But this doesn't cancel out the fact that the Booma and Cesta are far inferior in this sort of battle. While a sort of super powered spear and shield would be unbeatable in a melee engagement, both of these warriors are primarily seen at their best at range. And if we're talking about ranged weapons, the Booma is little more than a thrown rock. It can cause a lot of damage if it hits, being able to fry people and cause a person to go into cardiac arrest, it's still a thrown weapon which relies on the users person ability to throw or launch the damned. Thing. So here we are met with an impasse. We have 1 gun, which can't go through the enemies defences and generally only has a 1 to 5 round magazine, vs a spear and a magical stone. Both really aren't cut out for this sort of infantry ground war on a flat and grassy plain. So in the end, both weapons seriously just suck in this fight. Edge: Tie. Atlatl vs Blaster Pistol. Both weapons have around the same level of range, both Maxing a bit past 100 meters and averaging around 30, with the blaster taking a slight advantage in max range. The Atlatl has more versatility, being both a ranged weapon and a melee weapon. But it also suffers as a ranged weapon, having a much lower rant of fire. A blaster pistol, while is can overheat and can spend its power pack capacity fairly quickly, still could more effectively lay down suppressing fire then the Booma. But in the end the bolts from the gun fair even worse than the rifle, it also not just failing to pierce but could possibly reflect off the shield. This also sucks when considering the fact that the Gungans are defensive fighters who form in big ass shield walls. But that doesn't mean that the Booma is good either. It's still a thrown plasma rock. With the atlatl, it's a plasma rock which goes a farther distance. It's still inaccurate and not very effective. Just like the previous weapons Category, the shield makes the blaster fairly shitty, but that doesn't make the Gungans weapons are good. Both weapons in this fight suck. Edge: Tie. Gaderffii vs Shield, Atlatl club, Cesta spear. The Gaderffii is a damn good weapon, it being able to block attacks with the haft and being able to smash and slash with the blades. But when you compare it to the Gungan weapons, it lacks the ability to win here. While the shield could be pierced if the tusken stabs slowly pushes the blade through the front of it, there is no reason to believe that the Tusken warriors would have any idea of how to shield even worked. The Cesta is a longer ranged melee weapon, being 3 feet longer than the Gaderffi. The Atlatl really doesn't offer anything in this battle in melee, the Cesta and Shield do very end up being a much better pairing then the Gaderffii by itself. Edge: Gungan. X factors. Training: The Tuskens are a group who generally trained through experience, living by taking part in raids and animal hunts. This is very different when comparing it to the semi regular, but fairly non regular drilling of the Gungans. While the Gungans were certainly well trained, they didn’t live the warrior life of the Tuskens. The Gungans were competent weekend warriors, the Tuskens lived and breathed war. Edge: Tuskens. Experience: The Tuskens certainly did a lot of warring in their time, but this experience is somewhat misleading. They didn’t enter into pitched battles, but prayed upon the weak and undefended. And every time the entered a battle against a foe of equal strength, they got steamrolled. A good example of this was the hutt raid of the Hett village, a small group of bounty hunters were able to destroy an entire group of Tuskens, even though the Tuskens were supported by 2 Jedi masters and a highly skilled padawan. The Gungans on the other hand were a much trained for a traditional military engagement. They were trained in traditional combat, and were able to go toe to toe against both larger and more advanced military opponents. And since this battle is a much more traditional battle between enemies on an open field, then this scenario certainly favors the Gungans. While the Yuskens are a more experienced guerrilla combatant, they lacked experience in battlefield engagements, and sadly for them this is a battlefield engagement. Edge: Gungans. Ruthlessness: The Gungans didn’t seem to be very brutal. The Tuskens are a highly brutal and aggressive group of warriors, doing insanely brutal and borderline disgusting things to their foes. Edge: Tuskens. Conclusion. This is gonna sound insanely stupid, but I’m gonna go with the Gungans for this battle. While the Tuskens are the more brutal, aggressive and savage foe, the way they operate in combat isn’t the right stuff for this battle. They were Guerrilla warriors, and failed to even stand a chance against when thrown into more traditional fights. They were skilled in a different kind of war, and sadly for they the war they are entering is the conflict they always struggled with. The Gungans are on paper a less effective military unit, but are more suited for this battle due to their more effective abilities in traditional systems of warfare is really what steals then the edge. While the Tuskens are a more advanced group technologically, the Gungans have Equipment which was able to neutralize their main weapons. While the Tuskens were a more trained group and had more combat experience all in all, this experience in guerrilla warfare wouldn’t help them in traditional warfare scenarios, like the one they are entering. Winner: Gungans.