User blog comment:ILoveBattles/ILoveBattles (Collab with WanderingSkull) - Season 1 - Episode 4 - James Gang vs Dutch's Gang/@comment-5795750-20160224031536

BG1's "Ride off into the Sunset" Edges:

Melee: Yeah, the Bowie knife can be considered an evolution of the normal hunting knife since, as a knife designed for both hunting and combat, it has a thicker blade and it can be thrown

EDGE: James

Pistols: Despite the Colt SAA being one of the best guns of the Old West it is sadly outclassed by the more modern Borchardt which not only fired its load more rapidly but also fired the deadlier rounds

EDGE: Dutch

Rifles: Yeah the Evans repeating rifle was an odd gun for its time given its large mag capacity which does give it a one-up over the Winchester - but c'mon, it was an odd gun that not many cowboys sought to use over the gun that won the west

EDGE: James

Special: Using the dynamite bundle like a grenade is not really a good idea and using it like an IED requires perfect timing which is not possible in such a battle like this; the double-barrelled shotgun may have a short range but its certainly easier to get a kill with

EDGE: Dutch

Overall Winner: I think its fair to say that despite the famous reputation of the James Gang as notorious outlaws, I'm actually inclined to say that Dutch's Gang win out here due to superior weaponry (coming from a more advanced era in weapons history when the west was dying out thanks to faster-firing guns) and arguably greater experience at killing people and committing daring robberies. Sure his team was not as cohesive as the James Gang but I think this cohesion only breaks down if something goes completely wrong (like the botched robbery in 1906) - with an advantage over the James gang in terms of firepower though, its not likely that things will go bad for Dutch.