User blog comment:MilitaryBrat/Rough Riders vs Imperial Japanese Army/@comment-6288072-20130211005604

Just a simple vote, no fancy words...


 * Melee - Arisaka is longer, thinner, and can be attached to a rifle. Edge: IJA


 * Handguns - both are in the same caliber though. Edge: Even... I kinda think the Nambu Pistl was more used by the IJA during the war.


 * Rifles - both rifles are outstanding firearms, but the Arisaka is fed by stripper clips which hasten reload time. Very important especially when you're using bolt-actions. Edge: IJA


 * Machine Guns - The Type 99 is clumsy, but its got mobility, easy reload, more accurate, and better rate of fire. It more technologically advanced than the gatling. If th battle is in a baron rocky field, the wheels n the gatling may broke, turning the gatling useless. Edge : IJA

In the X-factors, not all IJA are disciplined. Many of them were just adoloscent conscripts taken away from their schools, probably not lower than 17 yeas of age. Some even deserted when they had the chance. If any knows the movie "Letters from Iwo Jima", many of the IJAs had little training and their leader resorted to full-scale mass suicide.


 * Winner - IJA, better weapons and equipment. In a full-throttle battle charge between the two, IJA stomps the RR.