User blog:Wassboss/Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta: Pablo Escobar vs Al Capone (Rematch)

Laughing in the face of the old adage that crime never pays, today's battle is between two of the wealthiest criminal kingpins in history. One comes from South America, the other from North America, one trades in drugs, the other in bootleg alcohol but what they both know is to keep your friends close and your enemies on his knees with a gun pressed to his temple. As these two wrestle for supremacy bullets will fly and bodies will drop until eventually only ones remains standing to take the spoils and continue to live in a Gangsta's Paradise.

(As an interesting side note this was actually the second ever battle I did on this wiki almost 8 years ago. Obviously it was complete and utter crap so I'm redoing now I actually know what I'm doing.)

Pablo Escobar: The wealthiest criminal in history, who made billions dealing in the illegal cocaine trade.

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Al Capone: Head of Chicago mafia, who built his criminal empire of the back of Prohibition.

Who is Deadliest

Pablo Escobar


"The business is simple: you bribe someone here, you bribe someone there, and you pay a friendly banker to help you bring the money back."

- Pablo Escobar

Pablo Escobar was a Colombian drug lord, head of the infamous Medellin Cartel. Pablo started his life in a middle class family but became involved in illegal trade of cocaine from Colombia to the United States. At the height of his power he was raking in 70 million dollars a day and amassed a personal fortune of around 30 billion dollars by the early 1990's. Pablo was eventually killed by Colombian police in 1993 while on the run, leaving a legacy of corruption and bloodshed behind him.

Machete
 * -|Close Range =

Length: 1.5 foot

Weight: 1 lb

Steel Colt M1911
 * -|Mid Range =

Round: .45 ACP

Magazine: 7 rounds

Range: 70 metres Mini Uzi
 * -|Long Range =

Round: 9×19mm Parabellum

Magazine: 32 rounds

Range: 200 metres

Muzzle Velocity: 400 m/s

Rate of Fire: 600 rpm Car Bomb
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Blast Radius: 100 metres

Frag Radius: 50 Metres

Al Capone


"You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."

- Al Capone

Al Capone, also known as Scarface, was possibly the most recognisable mafia don in history. Expelled from school at a young age he became heavily involved in a number of gangs in New York before moving to Chicago and soon worked his way up to becoming the head of the Chicago unit. He took advantage of the recently enacted prohibition laws to get rich and powerful of bootlegging alcohol as well as the standard racketeering of other organised crime groups. Al Capone was eventually brought down not by his mob dealings but for tax evasion and died of syphilis in 1947.

Baseball Bat
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Length: 2.75 foot

Weight: 2.3 lb

Wood Sawn-Off Shotgun
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Round: 12 Gauge

Magazine: 6 rounds

Range: Less than 50 metres Tommy Gun
 * -|Long Range =

Round: .45 ACP

Magazine: 30 rounds

Range: 150 metres

Muzzle Velocity: 285 m/s

Rate of Fire: 600-750 rpm Pineapple Grenade
 * -|Special =

Blast Radius: 45 metres

Frag Radius: 9 Metres

X Factors
Experience: Escobar=45/Capone=60

As they were both the heads of powerful criminal gangs, neither Escobar nor Capone really did much if any fighting, leaving the dirty work to their subordinates. However Capone did spend his early years acting as a bodyguard/enforcer before becoming head of the Chicago outfit which at least gives him some battle experience. Escobar meanwhile started off with petty crime before moving into the cocaine trade and never really had much fighting experience.

Logistics: Escobar=90/Capone=80

Pablo Escobar was the wealthiest criminal in history and the Medellin cartel made an annual turnover of 26 billion dollars a year. Therefore he could easily afford to pay for weaponry, ammunition and training for his men. Capone was also very wealthy but nowhere near to the same degree so wouldn't be able to afford the same calibre of weaponry. Ultimately it's unlikely either side will be short on weapons or ammo but Escobar can just afford more of it.

Brutality: Escobar=95/Capone=90

As to be expected from ruthless criminals both score highly on the brutality rating. What sets them apart is the business they were in. Al Capone made a lot of his money from bootlegging and racketeering and while he did orchestrate assassinations, keeping people alive was more of a priority in order to extort money from them. Escobar on the other hand was in the drug trade and so had to wage vicious wars against other drug dealers to wipe them out completely. The scale and level of brutality was also higher with the infamous "Colombian necktie" and setting off powerful bombs outside of embassies being much more brutal than a beating or being gunned down.

Quality of Troops: Escobar=80/Capone=65

As touched upon in logistics Escobar could afford to train the Medellin Cartel very well and in many ways they were more like a paramilitary group than your standard drug ring. Gangsters in the Chicago Outfit meanwhile were mostly unqualified petty criminals and thugs with little training or experience.

Voting System/Notes
Battle takes place in a hotel similar to the one seen in the Deadliest Warrior episode Mafia vs Yakuza.

Battle is a five on five (Escobar and 4 Medellin Cartel Members vs Capone and 4 Chicago Outfit Gangsters).

In order to be counted in full, votes must be at least 5 lines long or have been done in an edge format.

Anything less than 5 lines but which is competently argued and thought out will be counted as a half vote. I will inform anybody if their vote is considered a half vote and allow them to amend it to bring it up to a full point.

Irrelevant votes will not be counted at all.

I reserve the right to award a vote as half or discount it entirely for reason not mentioned here if I feel it is applicable.