User blog comment:MilenHD/Boudica vs Flavius Belisarius/@comment-27334870-20170321034834

Dargoo Faust's [REDACTED] EDGES: "Nam Patria"

Well, someone has to do the weapon edges :P

Weapons

Sword

The Spatha and Longsword are essentially the same weapon, if not used for different purposes. The Spatha is a light, infantry sword whereas the longsword is a more defensive, heavy sword. Suffice to say, both weapons have a job and do it well. I will give this to the longsword, however, because it can easily act as both an offensive and defensive weapon with its superior grip and length. EDGE: BOUDICA

Spear

If this was a larger battle with infantry I'd give it to the Byzantines but since this is a 5v5 I'd say it's kind of up in the air about which spear would work better. Length is a deadly advantage, especially with a spear, but a greater range of movement a smaller spear provides in a smaller battle would prove useful as well. EDGE: TIE

Projectile

Yeah, the bow wins this hands down. Hard to find an army of the Byzantine era that didn't win a major conflict without using bows. Even with small numbers like this it's a deadly advantage. SUPER EDGE: FLAVIUS

Dagger

To be fair, it's going to be much more a who-gets-the-jump-on-who and who is more skillful in terms of this edge, but for sake of argument the longer length will give a marginal advantage. EDGE: BOUDICA

X- Factors

As mentioned previously Flavius has experience with barbarians as opposed to conventional infantry, which, with his superior tactics should overcome the melee skills that Boudica commands. I think this is much closer than it seems, however, as with such small numbers that melee skill edge is going to be a bit more potent. However, Flavius still takes out more edges here.

OVERALL WINNER: FLAVIUS BELISARIUS

This would have been much closer, but Flavuis's use of the bow is a deadly advantage even with small numbers like these. His crew will be more organized, armored, and most of all, deadly.