User blog:LordStaypuffed95/Mao Zedong VS. Fidel Castro

The Warriors
Mao Zedong, the brutal Chinese communist revolutionary who, after a victory in the Chinese Civil War, went on to establish the only modern day communist super power left, the People's Republic of China.

VS.

Fidel Castro, the guerilla warfare adept Cuban communist reuolutionary whose victory in the Cuban Revolution, created a Marxist-Lennist Cuban state not far from the southern coast of Florida.

Who is Deadliest?!!!!



Mao's weapons: vz. 24 rifle, Mondragón F-08, ZB vz. 26, Tsing Tao MP 18, Hanyang C.96

de Gaulle's weapons: Winchester Model 70, M1 Garand, M1918A2 BAR, M1A1 Thompson, M1911A1

The Weapons
Category 1: Bolt-action Rifles

'''vz. 24 rifle'''

Caliber: 7.92 x 57mm IS

Magazine Capacity: 5 rounds

Overall Length: 43 inches

Weight: 9.3 pounds

Type: bolt-action

VS.

Winchester Model 70

<p style="text-align: center;">Caliber: .30-06

<p style="text-align: center;">Magazine Capacity: 5 rounds

<p style="text-align: center;">Overall Length: 44.5 inches

<p style="text-align: center;">Weight: 8 pounds

<p style="text-align: center;">Type: bolt-action, scoped hunting rifle

<p style="text-align: center;">'''Edge: vz. 24 rifle'''

<p style="text-align: center;">The vz. 24 rifle gets the edge because it was designed to be a military rifle, and because it loads from stripper clips, while the Winchester Model 70 loads one round at a time. The only significant advatage that the Winchester Model 70 has is that it is scoped.

<p style="text-align: center;">Category 2: Semi-automatic Rifles

<p style="text-align: center;">Mondragón F-08

<p style="text-align: center;">Caliber: 7 x 57mm Mauser

<p style="text-align: center;">Magazine Capacity: 8 rounds

<p style="text-align: center;">Overall Length: 43.5 inches

<p style="text-align: center;">Weight: 9 pounds, 3 ounces

<p style="text-align: center;">Type: gas-operated, select fire

<p style="text-align: center;">VS.

<p style="text-align: center;">M1 Garand

<p style="text-align: center;">Caliber: .30-06

<p style="text-align: center;">Magazine Capacity: 8 rounds

<p style="text-align: center;">Overall Length: 43.5 inches

<p style="text-align: center;">Weight: 9 pounds, 8.4 ounces

<p style="text-align: center;">Type: gas-operated, semi-automatic

<p style="text-align: center;">Edge: even

<p style="text-align: center;">The Mondragón F-08 has its perks, like magazine loading, and its full auto feature. It also has its faults, like not sharing the 7.92 x 57mm IS round with most of Mao's other weapons, unreliability, and the fact that its fully automatic feature is really useless due to uncontrollability and again, unreliability. This is the same deal with the M1 Garand. Its perks are reliability and sharing common .30-06 ammo with most of Fidel's other weapons. Its faults are being loaded with an en bloc clip and the fact that you can't replace an en bloc clop without firing all 8 rounds or manually ejecting the clip. Not to mention that the ping sound the en bloc clip makes when it is ejected will alert any nearby enemies that you are either reloading or out of ammo.

<p style="text-align: center;">Category 3: Light Machine Guns

<p style="text-align: center;">'''ZB vz. 26'''

<p style="text-align: center;">Caliber: 7.92 x 57mm IS

<p style="text-align: center;">Magazine Capacity: 20 rounds

<p style="text-align: center;">Overall Length: 45.3 inches

<p style="text-align: center;">Weight: 23.15 pounds

<p style="text-align: center;">Type: gas-operated, tilting breechblock

<p style="text-align: center;">Rate of Fire: 500 rounds per minute

<p style="text-align: center;">VS.

<p style="text-align: center;">M1918A2 BAR

<p style="text-align: center;">Caliber: .30-06

<p style="text-align: center;">Magazine Capacity: 20 rounds

<p style="text-align: center;">Overall Length: 47.8 inches

<p style="text-align: center;">Weight: 19 pounds

<p style="text-align: center;">Type: gas-operated, tilting breechblock

<p style="text-align: center;">Rate of Fire: 450 or 650 rounds per minute (selectable)

<p style="text-align: center;">Edge: M1918A2 BAR 

<p style="text-align: center;">The M1918A2 BAR is more user freindly than the ZB vz. 26, with its selectable rate of fire and the fact that its magazine does not load from the top of the gun and interfere with its sights, unlike the ZB vz. 26.

<p style="text-align: center;">Category 4: Sub Machine Guns

<p style="text-align: center;">'Tsing Tao MP 18'

<p style="text-align: center;">Caliber: 7.63 x 25mm Mauser

<p style="text-align: center;">Magazine Capacity: 32 rounds

<p style="text-align: center;">Overall Length: 32.8 inches

<p style="text-align: center;">Weight: 9.2 pounds

<p style="text-align: center;">Type: open bolt, blowback

<p style="text-align: center;">Rate of Fire: approx. 500 rounds per minute

<p style="text-align: center;">VS.

<p style="text-align: center;">M1A1 Thompson

<p style="text-align: center;">Caliber: .45 ACP

<p style="text-align: center;">Magazine Capacity: 20 rounds

<p style="text-align: center;">Overall Length: 32 inches

<p style="text-align: center;">Weight: 10.6 pounds

<p style="text-align: center;">Type: blowback, Blish Lock

<p style="text-align: center;">Rate of Fire: 700 rounds per minute

<p style="text-align: center;">Edge: Tsing Tao MP 18

<p style="text-align: center;">While the M1A1 Thompson is more powerful, the Tsing Tao MP 18 outclasses the clumsy M1A1 Thompson in terms of magazine capacity and controlabilty.

<p style="text-align: center;">Category 5: Pistols

<p style="text-align: center;">Hanyang C.96

<p style="text-align: center;">Caliber: 7.63 x 25mm Mauser

<p style="text-align: center;">Magazine Capacity: 10 rounds

<p style="text-align: center;">Overall Length: 12.3 inches

<p style="text-align: center;">Weight: 2 pounds, 8 ounces

<p style="text-align: center;">Type: short recoil

<p style="text-align: center;">M1911A1

<p style="text-align: center;">Caliber: .45 ACP

<p style="text-align: center;">Magazine Capacity: 7 rounds

<p style="text-align: center;">Overall Length: 8.25 inches

<p style="text-align: center;">Weight: 2.44 pounds

<p style="text-align: center;">Type: short recoil

<p style="text-align: center;">Edge: M1911A1

<p style="text-align: center;">The M1911A1 gets the edge because of the .45 ACP being far more powerful than the 7.63 x 25mm Mauser rounds of the Hanyang C.96. The M1911A1 also does not load from charger clips like the Hanyang C.96, it ueses regular magazines loaded into the grip of the gun. The really big drawback of the M1911A1 is that it only has a magazine capacity of 7 rounds compared to the Hanyang C.96 having 10 rounds.

X-Factors
<p style="text-align: center;">Training

<p style="text-align: center;">Edge: Mao Zedong

<p style="text-align: center;">Mao's People's Liberation Army, were actually a trained military, in comparison of a group of rebels trained only in basic guerilla warfare.

<p style="text-align: center;">Experience

<p style="text-align: center;">Edge: Mao Zedong

<p style="text-align: center;">Mao barely gets the edge in this category because he participated in the Chinese student rebellions of 1919-1920. Fidel did nothing to like this prior to the Cuban Revolution.

<p style="text-align: center;">Physicality

<p style="text-align: center;">Edge: Fidel Castro

<p style="text-align: center;">Fidel was 6 foot, 3 inches tall compared to Mao, being 5 foot, 11 inches tall. Fidel was also a athlete, as he was an avid baseball player.

<p style="text-align: center;">Combat Effectiveness/Tactics

<p style="text-align: center;">Edge: Fidel Castro

<p style="text-align: center;">Mao's People's Liberation Army were really beat up by the Kuomintang in the early stages of the Chinese Civil War, while Fidel and his rebels were able to effectively defeat Batista's government troops using guerilla warfare.

Expert's Opinion
<p style="text-align: center;">I'm going to have to give this one to Mao Zedong. He may have had a rough start at the begining of the Chinese Civil War, but after the conflict with the Japanese at the middle of the war, Mao's People's Liberation Army dominated the Kuomintang and establised the People's Republic of China. Plus his weapons and troops were more suited for combat than some of Fidel's weapons, and fidel's troops.

Battle Notes
<p style="text-align: center;">In case if you have not realized it yet, it is circa early 1930's Mao Zedong VS. Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro. <p style="text-align: center;">The battle will be 5 on 5, with Mao and 4 soldiers of the People's Liberation Army fighting Fidel with 4 Cuban rebels.

<p style="text-align: center;">The expert's opinion will be the tie breaker in case of a tie in voting.

<p style="text-align: center;">Please explain why you voted the way you did, and they must be relevant reasons or your vote will no count.

The Battle
<p style="text-align: center;">To be written.