User blog comment:Samurai Santa Claus/IRA vs. Khmer Rouge/@comment-3189283-20191218235003

Let’s see shall we

Rifle

The AR-15 has a further effective range and higher muzzle velocity. The AK-47 is fully automatic rather than being semi-automatic like the AR-15 which means it can spit out it’s rounds quicker. Within the close confines of a city I don’t think range will be as important which leaves the AK-47’s faster ROF being the better advantage.

Edge: Khmer Rouge

Sidearm

Going to side with the Beretta for it’s much larger magazine. The Tokarev does have the higher muzzle velocity but that isn’t much help when you’ll run out of bullets in half the time your opponent will.

Edge: IRA

Melee

The Cane Knife has about a two inch reach advantage on the KA-BAR but that is the only area in which it is better. The KA-BAR is a military grade knife and thus was designed specifically for combat rather than the improvisonal weapon status of the Cane Knife. A KA-BAR can be used to both stab and slash whereas the Cane Knife is limited to a sort of hacking motion, great for cutting through sugar cane, not so great in a knife fight.

Edge: IRA

Explosive

The Nail Bomb probably has the larger blast radius in general but the RGD-33 is much more portable and you don’t have to worry about fiddling about setting up a bomb in the middle of a fight or hoping your enemy happens to walk past the bomb you’ve set up beforehand.

Edge: Khmer Rouge

Machine Gun

This edge really depends on what you want out of your machine gun. The M60 is very much a plonk down and fire gun, it’s too heavy to move about much but it has a more powerful round owing to the larger bullet size and higher muzzle velocity so is very good at holding down an area. The RPD meanwhile is a fair bit lighter so can be repositioned more easily and this is further emphasised by it’s feed system which makes it more portable and doesn’t require a second to person to help make sure the bullets feed in properly. It also fires much more rapidly making it great for repressing fire. Given that this battle takes place in a city I don’t see them lugging around a machine gun all over the place therefore the M60 being the more effective stationary machine gun gives it the advantage.

Edge: IRA

Final Verdict

Unsurprisingly the Khmer Rouge are going to be losing on this wiki once again. They do admittedly have the superior assault rifle which is important as it’s the main source of damage in this battle but they just lack in other key areas. The IRA are much more experienced in the type of urban combat that is required for this battle and are just more experienced in general, having fought against the British Army for decades. The Khmer Rouge didn’t last long once the Vietnamese Army decided to invade which suggests they aren’t all that good at taking on a professional fighting force.

Furthermore, a most of the Khmer Rouge were either teenagers or young adults who were made to commit genocide against their own people, which would’ve taken a massive toll on their mental health and will undoubtedly have an effect on their fighting ability. IRA members conversely were mostly adults, many of which had prior military experience and while they did commit terrorist attacks they weren’t wantonly slaughtering whole villages of people and their mental health would be considerably less damaged. The IRA are the more experienced and professional fighting force and to top it off their fighting on their own turf which gives them even more of an advantage. Not that they needed it mind, they’d have probably won even if this battle was set in Cambodia.

IRA: 4,000

Khmer Rouge: 1,000