User blog comment:Wassboss/Rebel Scum Empirical Gains and a Cunning Plan: Captain Blackadder's Men vs Dutch's Gang./@comment-5795750-20160402090305

BG1's "Hmmmm..." Edge:

Listen I'm not gonna do some edges here because having looked at this I straight up already know the answer to this - Dutch's Men have this in the bag plain and simple. Sure Blackadder and his mean have trained as WWI officers and have fought for some time during the war but here's why I don't see him winning this - having seen the series "Blackadder Goes Forth" I have never ever seen Blackadder do any actual fighting in the series since the focus of the comedy was of him and his men trying to dodge the war to get back home. Sure Blackadder's British WWI weapons are technologically newer than the guns of the old west but Dutch and his men have been using theirs for much longer and to deadlier effect plus their brutality will be something that Blackadder and his men may not see coming in behind all their humorous jib-jab. I understand that there may be a few things detracting from Dutch's Gang such as teamwork but honestly I don't see Blackadder and his men teaming up to fight a common enemy well either. Also, the terrain may suit Blackadder's men better since they're dug in a trench while Dutch and his men attack from No Man's Land with an armoured stagecoach but here's the problem - Blackadder and his men have never seen an armoured stagecoach before even as part of their training; also while the Browning gun can give Blackadder and his men some good suppressive fire and thus the cowboys a run for their money, it won't be enough. I mean Dutch and his gang (especially Marston) are sharpshooters/gunslingers so their accuracy would help them more in getting precise yet brutally shocking kills than the WWI doughboys could ever create.

I've had reservation for some time thinking that Blackadder doesn't really fit the definition of a warrior since in his series (as I mentioned before) he doesn't do a lot of fighting... but since he does "leads other fighters into battle" technically speaking since he is a Captain, I'm gonna let it slide