User blog comment:Deathblade 100/What's the Price of a Mile? Poilus vs Frontovik/@comment-35680048-20190521134528

Tybaltcapulet's "And my hate-boner for the Imperial Russians intensifies"Edges:

Rifle: The Mosin-Nagant comes to grace us with its presence once again. This piece of glorious Russian engineering has assisted armies for a very long time. And once again I do give it the edge here. Now the Lebel isn't a horrible weapon, it has a powerful round and an extra three rounds in the weapon, but damn is it slow to reload. It really suffers in its magazine design, where apparently the French thought a slow ass tube magazine would be a great idea. By the time the Lebel reloads after firing off its 8 rounds, the Frontovik could most likely get off way more rounds. There are also little things about the Lebel that make it less effective, like the very small sights that made it harder to align shots and the lack of handguard on the top of the barrel, which lead to burning the soldier carrying it after prolonged usage. The Mosin Nagant is the more streamlined and efficient weapon that will in the long run make up for its lower capacity with better reloads.Edge: Frontovik 

LMGs: Oh come on is it even a contest here? The Madsen easily outperforms the Chauchat without a freaking doubt. It destroys it in capacity,rate of fire and range allowing the Frontovik to get a lot more covering fire with it. This isn't even adressing the known reliability issues with the Chauchat, that being its open magazine allowing dirt to go in and really mess up its firing. Now this may have been mainly associated with the American versions of it, but the messy trenches, I doubt the CSG will be able to escape this problem entirely. The Madsen blows it out of the water in every category that truly matters and therefore is clearly the superior weapon here. Major Edge: Frontovik

HMG: Ok what in the name of Capitalist hell is this? (It's almost as if you're making this completely in Frontovik's favor). Well again, the Hotchkiss is entirely outmatched here in every important category, more like the only important category. Oh I don't know, the fact that the PM-1910 has over eight times the capacity of the Hotchkiss? Um yeah, the Hotchkiss having around the same amount of ammo, will be ripping through magazines and constantly reloading while the PM-1910 will still be laying down lead. Ultimately what i'm saying is that the PM-1910 is the weapon that is much better suited to the role its been given, being a Heavy Machine gun. On top of this, it even had a nice shield to protect itself from incoming fire (Seriously if I though it could beat the Browning on Zhukov v Xishan, what's the Hotchkiss gonna do?) Major Edge: Frontovik

Semi-Auto: Nope, not gonna go through this again. The Federov wins easily due to its select fire and having 5 times the ammo of the RSC. Nuff said.Edge: Frontovik