User blog comment:Elgb333/Americana Pt 1: Lakota Sioux vs Johnson County/@comment-35680048-20190309182921

Tybaltcapulet's " Not in my Town, you fat cat labor barons"Edges:

Melee: Melees like others before me haved stated, aren't really going to be of much help here.But if I really have to give an edge here, i'm going to give a slight edge to the Stone war club. Usually i'm a proponent of sharp>blunt, but the Bowie is considerably shorter than the club, allowing it to outrange it consistently. And the Lakota can use this on their horses, adding another method of attack here. But I say slight edge, becuase the Bowie's blade will be more inherently lethal, and will cause greater damage in general.Slight Edge: Lakota Sioux

Mid: As much as I want to give the edge to the Peacemaker for being a reliable firearm, the Lakota's bows are just simply the more useful weapon here. It fires actually faster than the pistol, utilizes many different arrows, including flaming arrows that can burn down the homes that the homesteaders are using, and the Lakota are very well trained with their bows, compared to the mostly untrained people of Johnson County.Edge: Lakota Sioux

Long: I'm giving this to the Winchester for its more powerful round and ease of reload compared to the Henry. The Henry may have an extra round in the chamber due to its design, but that hardly matters when the magazine is a massive pain to reload on horseback(you know the entirety of the Lakota in this battle). The homesteaders can just sit back, reload and kill more consistently with the superior round of the Winchester.Edge: Johnson County 

Tactics: Easy edge for Johnson County. Defensive strategies like Johnson's are the bane of any hit and run tactic, and it's no different for the Lakota here. Johnson will never leave the town and most likely never leave their homes, making it almost impossible to draw them out for repeated attacks. This town is not only well-verse in this types of situations, but they have a metric shit ton of high-quality weaponry, and can feasibly stay in their position and fight indefinitely(within reason of course). The Lakota rely on speed and shock an awe, and once they don't have either of those, they'll run out of ammo, and be forced to leave.Edge: Johnson County

Overall/X-factors: Like everyone else here, i'm giving this to Johnson County, majorly because of their massive tactical advantage. The Lakota are simply ill-suited to a battle such as this, where their lighting fast hit and run doesn't really do a damn thing against their enemy. This is a town prepared both logistically and mentally to defend to a fault. They can just sit in their homes, businesses and other buildings to utilize cover and make themselves very hard to hit while dishing out their own punishment. The superior numbers of the Lakota will be of help to the Lakota, but ultimately won't make much of a difference in my opinion.

Will it be an utter stomp for Johnson county? Not entirely, most of the people in the town are untrained and don't have the experience of the Lakota Sioux. Also the Sioux do have fire arrows that can somewhat ameliorate their disadvantage by making some buildings utterly useless to use as cover. But again, this battle is entirely against them in terms of strategy and tactics. The homesteaders are very cautious and smart enough to not engage them unecessarily. They will whittle down the Lakota's resources, and force them to retreat.

Johnson County: 3500

Lakota Sioux: 1500