User blog comment:Marcus5/Conquistodors vs.Swiss Guard/@comment-5232784-20130509212627

Okay woodcampers, lets have a duel!

1. Short range

There are two types of Flamberge sword: a rapier and a zweihander (double-hander) version, the latter huge and very long. I'm gussing the latter weapon is being used here. If so, the Rapier will be the faster weapon, while the Zweihander will be the larger, heavier blade, packing more range and a heck of a punch. Some of the Zweihander FLamberge's had two blade spikes on the blade itself, which could be utilized to remove the sword from combat, or move it out of the way for a death blow.

Some Rapier's had very thin, breakable blades, while the Zweihander's were thick, so I will give the edge to the Swiss Guards

EDGE: Swiss Guard!

2. Mid range

The Partsian Polearm has several bladed projections at the end of the spear blade, as opposed to one for the lance. While the Conquistadors will charge with their horses using the lances like knights, the Swiss Guard will stand their ground, on foot, facing against the mounted Conquistadores like Pikemen, and Pikemen trounced Knights in battle. The Partisian is the better weapon, and used in a better fashion, than the older lance

EDGE: Swiss Guard!

3. Long range

The Arquebus is a powerful gun, a lot more accurat and deadly than most modern people consider. But the advancements of a rfled gun barrel are not to be overestimated here, as it is a far better design, a few centuries ahead of the Arquebus. No contest

EDGE: Swiss Guard

4. Special

The Grenado can be thrown in all directions, while the Roaring Meg has to be turned around to fire in all directions, taking longer to ready for combat in this fashion. Yet the Meg is far more powerful than the Grenado. However, I give this to the Grenado, do to the fact that you can aim in any direction, not taking as long to turn your own body to aim as you would to turn a cannon, as well as the fact that you only have to pull another grenado to fire, while the Cannon needs to be reloaded and perhaps even cleaned before it can be fired again: you can far more quickly utilize another Grenado than you can another cannonball

EDGE: Conquistador

The weaponry gap here is obvious: the Conquistadors are using more primitive weaponry, such as the Arquebus and lance. They are going to use tactics from their time instead of the more evolved ones of the later Swiss Guard, and they lack in almsot every weapon department (save for special).

The Conquerors of MesoAmerica and the Ica Empire shall fall to the Pope's elite fighting force, very quickly perhaps

SWISS GUARD SWISS-CHEESES CONQUISTADORES