User blog comment:Deadliest Issue/Muton Elite VS Theron Guard/@comment-5795750-20140325105909

BG1's "One of the better votes" aka "Getting there, DI. Now all you need is X-Factors" aka "What's Worse for the Earth? Getting Swarmed by Locusts or Aliens?" Edges

Short: The Sectoid's unlimited ammo is a neat perk and its plasma bullets can definitely hurt but at the end of the day I will have to side with the Gorgon SMG and Boltok Pistol since as two weapons they can dish out twice as much damage with a greater degree of accuracy

EDGE: Theron Guard

Medium: Like the previous edge, 2 weapons are better than one and despite the power of ionised gas in the Plasma Rifle, the Rifle simply fails in every other important aspect such as range and accuracy compared to the tried and true Gnasher and Hammerburst guns

EDGE: Theron Guard

Long: Essentially this comparison is like comparing the Barrett M82A1 and the Dragunov SVD sniper rifles: one is significantly stronger than the other but one has more ammo in it and can fire a little bit faster; to me though at the end of the day, the Longshot Rifle wins out since at least one of its weaknesses is that accuracy doesn't fall short the closer you get to an enemy

EDGE: Theron Guard

Special: This edge I will have to call even since any gun would win out over a bow and arrow with the LMG having a very high rate of fire, reliability and a degree of power and accuracy but the Torque Bow can match the LMG with regards to accuracy and power while booting in a range advantage too

EDGE: Even

Explosive: What do you mean by "One ammo"? Does it mean that the grenade launcher can carry one grenade in it at a time or it can fire one grenade at a time? Either way I give the edge to the Boomshot simply because grenade launcher > grenade

EDGE: Theron Guard

Melee: Now this is where the Muton Elites might get the edge for once seeing as how their blade is built into the armour akin to Commander Shepard's Omniblade to his Sci-Fi armour meaning that the Elites won't be able to lose it as easily as the Theron Guard will with their cleaver; sure the cleaver can hack and slash but so can the arm blades so its fair game

EDGE: Muton Elites

Armour: So we have a comparison akin to that of a knight vs a samurai or Master Chief vs Nomad from Crysis - one armour is sluggish but it offers a great deal of protection while the other offers great movement allowing for speed and agility to work on your side but it leaves crucial parts of you vulnerable; for now the edge here is even but when I get to the winner, you'll find out how well the armour plays out

EDGE: Even

Overall Winner: Without X-Factors to look at on the blog such as training, experience, intelligence and all that to look at, I will a) draw my own X-Factor conclusions; and b) from there, and combining my results with the data from the weapons testing, decide a winner


 * sounds of fiddling about in a workshop*

Aah... finished. And now to move onto the winner, which here is going to be the Theron Guard for a few reasons. 1) The Theron Guard are to the Locusts what the Navy Seals are to America's military - the top gun commandos who wear light armour but do so to aid in conducting successful commando-like tactics which I am sure the Muton Elites can't keep up with; 2) While losing out in the melee combat scenario, I doubt the battle will get that far given how the Theron Guard practically dominate the ranged category and yeah, yeah, the Muton Elite armour is nearly impenetrable but the keyword here is "nearly" - the armour is not entirely bulletproof and yes the Muton's weapons are plasma-based while the Theron Guard's weapons are limited to bullets and bows but a high concentration of fire from the guard combined with their superior commando-like tactics (the Muton Elites act as good defense but not too much offense) and speed should be able to break through the durability barrier the Elites possess; and reason 3? Well I don't know much about either game (X-COM or Gears of War) but the Theron Guard appear to be the more brutish of the lot having (as far as I read) been part of a huge war against humanity compared the alien invaders that are the X-COM aliens (Don't take point 3 too seriously though but I do bring up a good point there)