User blog:Tybaltcapulet/Vasily Chuikov vs Tadamichi Kuribayashi





I bring to you an (un)classic battle of Allies vs Axis where two famous general will fight for their country and honor. They both fought desperately to overcome exceedingly intense theaters, the West and East fronts. Both showed their enemies, their most tenacious tactics and skills that pushed them to the limit. These men while having different methods, were instrumental in their respective fights. Their names?....

Vasily Chuikov: The Russian General who in multiple battles brutally slaughtered the German Army and marched through Stalingrad right to Berlin.

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Tadamichi Kuribayashi: The brave commander whose guerrilla tactics and skill halted the United States army for many, many days in Iwo Jima.

'Who is Deadliest? '

Vasily Chuikov
Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun. — Vasily Chuikov

Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov, nicknamed The Stone and The Man of Will, was a lieutenant general in the Red Army. He served in the Russian Revolution and into the beginning of World War II. He took control over the 62nd army in the Battle of Stalingrad and was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union twice. He was also a great tactician by trapping the German Panzer Divisions in the ruins of Stalingrad. He later took control of the 8th Guards Army and led them into Berlin in 1945. Chuikov was later, after the war, promoted as Marshall of the Soviet Union. He died in 1987 from septicemia, due to an infected arm wound.

Tadamichi Kuribayashi
I am sorry to end my life here, fighting the United States of America, but I want to defend this island as long as possible and to delay the enemy air raids on Tokyo. — Tadamichi Kuribayashi in a letter to his wife

General Tadamichi Kuribayashi was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, part-time writer, haiku poet, diplomat, and General of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff. He is best known for being overall commander of the Japanese garrison during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

Kuribayashi graduated from Nagano High School in 1911. Although he had originally aspired to be a journalist, Kuribayashi was persuaded by his high school instructors to instead enter the Imperial Japanese Army Academy. Kuribayashi graduated from the Army Academy's 26th class in 1914, having specialized in cavalry. He continued on to the Army's Cavalry School in 1918. In 1923, he graduated from the 35th class of the Army War College with splendid marks and received a military sabre from the Taisho Emperor. Kuribayashi was designated as deputy military attaché to Washington, D.C. in 1928. Unlike most Japanese commanders in World War II, Tadamichi was a humanist, who treated his American adversary with honor and respect. General Kuribayashi was known for having expressed the belief that Japan's war against the United States was a no win situation and needed to be ended via a negotiated peace.

Nagant M1895 (Chuikov)
The Nagant M1895 Revolver was a seven-shot, gas-seal revolver designed and produced by Belgian industrialist Léon Nagant for the Russian Empire.

The Nagant M1895 was chambered for a proprietary cartridge, 7.62×38mmR, and featured an unusual "gas-seal" system, in which the cylinder moved forward when the gun was cocked, to close the gap between the cylinder and the barrel, providing a boost to the muzzle velocity of the fired projectile and allowing the weapon to be suppressed (an unusual ability for a revolver)
 * Muzzle velocity: 750 ft/s (272 m/s)
 * Weight: 1.8 lb (0.8 kg), unloaded
 * Range: 25m

Custom-built Colt M1911 (Kuribayashi):
The M1911 is a semi-automatic pistol that fires the .45 ACP. The weapon is single-action and is recoil-operated. The famous firearms designer produced the pistol to be used as the standard sidearm for the United States military. The weapon was used through countless conflicts like World War II and the Vietnam War. Production for the weapon came through the United States' need to modernize its arsenal. It is still being used by American law-enforcement and military forces in limited amounts. A large amount of variants were made, the most popular being the MEU(SOC) pistol. 28 countries currently have the pistol in their arsenals.

Kuribayashi traveled for two years in America, mostly to study, as a liaison, and a military representative.This is where from his friends he received this beautiful custom-made M1911. For this battle there will be no special qualities about this pistol other than aesthetics.
 * Muzzle Velocity: 825 ft/s (251 m/s)
 * Capacity: 7-round magazine
 * Weight: 2.44 lb (1,105 g)
 * Range: 70m

Mosin-Nagant (Chuikov)
The Mosin–Nagant is a bolt-action, internal magazine-fed, military rifle invented under the government commission by Russian and Belgian inventors, and used by the armed forces of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and various other nations. It is one of the longest serving bolt action rifles in history, being issued until the 1940s (and up to the 1960s in third world client nations of the USSR).
 * Muzzle Velocity: 865 m/s
 * Capacity: 5-round magazine
 * Round: 7.62×54mmR
 * Weight: 3.4 kg
 * Range: 500m

Type 99 Arisaka Rifle w/ bayonet (Kuribayashi)
The Arisaka Type 99 rifle was the standard-issue battle rifle of the Japanese Imperial Army during WWII. Bolt-action, heavy, and awkward, the Type 99 was favored nonetheless by its users thanks to its reliability, accuracy, decent range, and the efficiency of the bayonet that was usually attached under the barrel. The effective range of one of these rifles could easily be increased if a telescopic sniper's scope was attached.
 * Muzzle Velocity:730 m/s (2394 ft/s)
 * Capacity: 5-round magazine
 * Round: 7.7x58mm Arisaka
 * Weight: 8.16 lb (3.7 kg)
 * Range:440-1,000m

PPD-40(Chuikov)
The PPD-40 was designed by Vasily Degtyaryov in 1934. It was used throughout World War 2 but was eventually replaced by the superior PPSH. It was based on the German MP-28.
 * Muzzle Velocity: 490m/s
 * Capacity: 71-round drum magazine
 * Round: 7.62x25mm Tokarev
 * Weight:3.2 kg
 * Range: 200 meters
 * Fire Rate: 800-1000 rounds/min

Type 100(Kuribayashi)
The Type 100 submachine gun (一〇〇式機関短銃 Hyaku-shiki kikan-tanjū?) was a Japanese submachine gun used during World War II, and the only submachine gun produced by Japan in any quantity.Designed and built by the Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company under a low-priority military contract, the Type 100 was a submachine gun that was first delivered to the Imperial Army in 1942. The Type 100 was typical of the class of simple, inexpensive, wartime submachine guns produced by all military powers—designed for maximum ease of production.
 * Muzzle Velocity: 335 m/s (1,100 ft/s)
 * Capacity: 30-round magazine
 * Round: 8x22mm Nambu
 * Weight: 3.4 kg (7.5 lb)
 * Range: 100–150 m
 * Fire Rate: 850 rounds/min

Brutality:
Chuikov: Really Chuikov as a Red Army general would be unafraid to simply send his men to die against the Wehrmacht. He wasn't particularly brutal to the enemy or his soldiers compared to any of the others on his front.

Kuribayashi: Kuribayashi was a notable humanist who only really killed to defend his homeland and respected his enemies very much. Yes he was very tenacious but his motivation was really to make the United States reconsider a land invasion of Japan due to public opinion and great loss of men

Training:
Chuikov: Before the Russian Revolution, Chuikov was an unemployed man that was recruited into the Russian Guards in 1917. He left his regiment in 1921 to continue his studies at the Frunze Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1925

Kuribayashi:Kuribayashi graduated from the Army Academy's 26th class in 1914, having specialized in cavalry. He continued on to the Army's Cavalry School in 1918. In 1923, he graduated from the 35th class of the Army War College with splendid marks and received a military sabre from the Taisho Emperor. Kuribayashi married Yoshii Kuribayashi (1904–2003) on 8 December of that year. Together they had a son and two daughters (Taro, Yoko and Takako).

Kuribayashi was designated as deputy military attaché to Washington, D.C. in 1928. For two years, Kuribayashi traveled across the United States, conducting extensive military and industrial research. For a short time, he studied at Harvard University.

Experience:
Chuikov: He had experience in the Russian Revolution/Civil War, Winter War, commanded the 4th army in the Invasion of Poland,the 64th army in the expulsion of the German army in Stalingrad, the 8th guards in the 1st Belorussian front and straight into the invasion of Berlin in 1945

Kuribayashi: Kuribayashi for most of his career was military staff, and not actually on the front line. Iwo Jima from my understanding was really the only battle he had actual combat experience. Through most his education and training he had been a student and a representative of his country, not an actual soldier or general

Tactics:
Chuikov: Chuikov had a strategy which was basically like hugging the enemy, sending under-armed troops against the Wehrmacht up close so that their superior weaponry would be less effective. In Stalingrad after he had seen the effects of the blitzkrieg first hand, he allowed the Germans to carpet bomb them to draw in Panzer divisions which could then be destroyed up close.

Kuribayashi: Kuribayashi at least in Iwo Jima was very focused on building strong fortified positions, setting up pillboxes, establishing a massive cave/tunnel system and used his location to his adavantage. This went in tandem with guerilla ambushes which would benefit from the aforementioned homefield and defensive advantages.

Voting/Battle situation
This battle will be a 50v50 on one of the Kuril Islands where the Japanese have secured a base forwarded by Kuribayashi. Chuikov will be the closest general in the area so it will be his duty to lead his men onto the island and take it back. But when he gets there he immediately is bombarded with the defensive positions and is split up with a small detachment of his large army.Kuribayashi sees this and will attempt to seize the opportunity to dispatch an important leader.

Format 1: Detailed edge based vote with good grammar and that is just a couple of words or a sentence.

Format 2: 7 sentence pargraph detailing why you believe a certain warrior will win.

X-factors are not required in your vote but are appreciated as I do spend a while with them.

I hold the final say as to whether a vote counts or not, guidelines not withstanding.Voting will end when I am satisfied the the quality and quantity of votes.