User blog:Deathblade 100/Revolutionaries and Horse Lords of the 20th Century: Roman von Ungern-Sternberg vs Jozef Pilsidski

The Horseman; truly is there anything as elegant as a mounted soldier riding down those pathetic infantrymen with lance and sabre? Wait, I'm getting off topic. Horsemen are obsolete in the 21st Century; but not in the early 20th Century. Despite the rise of motorised troops, cavalry still had a role to play. No more so than the First World War where the horseman had his last great hurrah.

Roman von Ungern-Sternberg- The Mad Baron; who led a cavalry division into Mongolia on a quest to restore monarchy to Asia and Russia.

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Josef Pilsudski- The father of the modern Polish nation; whose Polish Legions waged a bloody war against the Central Powers and Entente for independence.

WHO...IS...DEADLIEST?

To find out the history of war and modern science collide, as we test the weapons and tactics used by these instruments of war. We dissect their strengths and weaknesses and file them in for an all new battle to the death. It’s no rules, no safety, no mercy. It’s a duel to the death as we find out who is the Deadliest Warrior.

Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
Baron Roman Nicolaus Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg was an anti-Bolshevik lieutenant-general in the Russian Civil War and then an independent warlord whose Asiatic Cavalry Division wrested control of Mongolia from the Republic of China in 1921 after its occupation. He was often referred to as Baron Ungern, or simply Ungern.

Ungern was an arch-conservative pan-monarchist who aspired to restore the Russian monarchy under Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia and to revive the Mongol Empire under the rule of the Bogd Khan. During the Russian Civil War, Ungern's attraction to Vajrayana Buddhism and his eccentric, often violent treatment of enemies, civilians, particularly and his own men, earned him the sobriquet the "Mad Baron".

Ungern would prove to be effective, if almost insanely reckless cavalry commander, winning multiple engagements in the First World War and Russian Civil War, where he held a portion of Siberia around Dauria and Hailan on the Russian-Mongolian border, where he became infamous for atrocities against his perceived enemies, including Bolsheviks and Jews.

Ungern was eventually expelled and forced to flee to Mongolia in 1920, but he took this as an opportunity to further his monarchist goals by expelling Chinese forces from Mongolia, taking the country and placing it under the rule of the Bogd Khan by February 1921, with the intent of eventually reviving the Mongol Empire. In the spring of 1921, the Red Army invaded Mongolia with the intent of eliminating the threat posed by Ungern. The Soviets defeated Ungern in multiple battles using armored vehicles, heavy artillery, and aircraft, before Ungern was finally captured in August 1921 after attempting to cross the Gobi desert to counterattack into the Soviet Union, after his men mutinied and turned him over to Soviet authorities. Ungern was executed about a month later.

Due to his skill at fighting from a moving horse, man Mongolians considered Ungern-Sternberg the reincarnation of Genghis Khan; a fact he neith confirmed or denied.

Long Range= Mosin-Nagant M1891 Dragoon Medium Range= Mauser C96 Close Range= Shashka Army= Asiatic Cavalry Division
 * Range: 500 metres
 * Round: 7.62x54mmR
 * Capacity: 5
 * Range: 300 metres
 * Round: 7.63x25mm
 * Capacity: 10
 * Length: 75 centimetres
 * Material: Steel
 * Traditional Cossack Sabre
 * Size: ~1000-2000
 * Composition: Russians, Cossacks, Mongols, Buryats, Tatars, Chinese, Manchus

Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
Józef Klemens Piłsudski was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State (1918–22) and First Marshal of Poland (from 1920). He was considered the de facto leader (1926–35) of the Second Polish Republic as the Minister of Military Affairs. From World War I he had great power in Polish politics and was a distinguished figure on the international scene.[1] He is viewed as a father of the Second Polish Republic re-established in 1918, 123 years after the 1795 Partitions of Poland by Austria, Prussia and Russia.

Deeming himself a descendant of the culture and traditions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Piłsudski believed in a multi-ethnic Poland—"a home of nations" including indigenous ethnic and religious minorities that he hoped would establish a robust union with the independent states of Lithuania and Ukraine. His principal political antagonist, Roman Dmowski, leader of the National Democrat party, by contrast, called for a Poland limited to the pre-Partitions Polish Crown and based mainly on a homogeneous ethnically Polish population and Roman Catholic identity.

Early in his political career, Piłsudski became a leader of the Polish Socialist Party. Concluding that Poland's independence would have to be won militarily, he formed the Polish Legions. In 1914 he correctly predicted the outbreak of a major war, the Russian Empire's defeat by the Central Powers, and the Central Powers' defeat by the western Allied Powers. When World War I began in 1914, Piłsudski's Legions fought alongside Austria-Hungary against Russia. In 1917, with Imperalist Russia faring poorly in the war, he withdrew his support for the Central Powers and was imprisoned in Magdeburg by the Germans.

From November 1918, when Poland regained its independence, until 1922, Piłsudski was Poland's Chief of State. In 1919–21 he commanded Polish forces in six border wars that re-defined the country's borders. His forces seemed on the verge of defeat in the Polish–Soviet War when, in the August 1920 Battle of Warsaw, they threw back the invading Soviet Russian forces. In 1923, with the government dominated by his opponents, in particular the National Democrats, Piłsudski retired from active politics. Three years later he returned to power in the May 1926 coup d'état and became Poland's strongman. From then on until his death in 1935, he concerned himself primarily with military and foreign affairs. It was during this period that he developed a cult of personality that has survived into the 21st century.

Long Range= Mannlicher M.95 Stutzen Medium Range= Steyr M1912 Close Range= Szablia Army= Polish Legions
 * Range: 500 metres
 * Round: 8x50mmR
 * Capacity: 5
 * Range: 50 metres
 * Round: 9x23mm Steyr
 * Capacity: 8
 * Length: 75 centimetres
 * Material: Steel
 * Traditional Polish Sabre
 * Size: ~7500
 * Composition: Polish

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