User blog comment:Cfp3157/Beat Your Gums 'Round the Battefront: The Basterds vs. Roebuck's Squad/@comment-17814994-20150423104937

Elgb's "Call of Duty: Tarantino Warfare" EDGES!!!

Knife: I don't really care what people would say about the bowie knife. Some people say that it wasn't design for combat, but in reality, there are accounts of the bowie knife being a standard weapon for militias in the era, let alone being a great asset in combat (The reason why the US Army never adopted the knife is because its got a bad rep as well as being outperformed by bayonets). The ka-Bar maybe modern, but in knives size does matter, and the bowie knife commits. It's pretty simple, the bowie cuts deeper, parry better, and stabs harder, while it may take multiple strikes for a Ka-Bar to get the job done if not striked in the right vitals. Face it, you'll have a hard time trying to face down a guy who can kill you with one bowie knife thrust/slash, while holding a smaller (and probably less lethal) ka-bar in your hand. EDGE: Bastards

Big Melee: The bayonet has the longer reach and causes more damage. The Baseball bat is good but it'll use more energy to be effective. EDGE: Roebuck

Pistol: Although the luger has the larger magazine, it's hampered by its horrible innacurate sights, as well as its mediocre penetration power. The Colt M1911 not only is the more advanced pistol, but it's got the bigger round and accuracy to end the job quickly. EDGE: Roebuck

Pistol #2: Any weapon with the word Nambu in it is a big POS. The Walther obviously takes the edge with its reliability, magazine count, and power. EDGE: Basterds

Shotgun: The trenchgun's got more rounds with its superior tubular magazine. Go American weapons! EDGE: Roebuck

SMG: Although the Thompson has the larger round, in submachine gun, rate of fire as well as magazine capacity alwasy count first. Sadly, the MP40 delivers. It's also got less recoil than the bigger Tommy. Roebuck will be running out and reloadig while Aldo will keep on firing. EDGE: Basterds

Rifle: No questions. Semi-Auto eradicates any bolt action battle rifle anytime. Hitler should have kept his Stg-44. EDGE: Roebuck

MG: To be honest, I've never been impressed with the BAR. John Browning is a genius no doubt, but I think he didn't understand that the word "Light Machine Gun" has the word "Machine gun" in it. The BAR is state of the art no doubt, but there's always been accounts of it performing less than its counterparts. This is due to the fact that the BAR, with its "advanced" design, quickly empties its 20-round magazine, forcing the gunner to save his round and reload too often. A 20-round mag is a huge disadvantage for the machine gun. And yes I know that the BAR can be used as a light automatic battle rifle, this is useless if it can't function well as a machine first. The MG-40, no doubt, is the best machine gun on the planet. 60 years since its debut, it still holds the record for the fastest machine gun ever (until it was superceded by the Minigun and probably the Metal Storm off course). Though a Nazi weapon used for genocide and world domination, the MG is still a weapon to be respected. EDGE: Basterds

Grenades: The Steil has that stick that allows it to be thrown further and prevent rolling, but the MK-2 is lighter and the user can carry more than what a stick grenade user can carry. EDGE: Even

Big Bomb: The Satchel Charge in the game can be used as a grenade for full explosive effect. The TNT on the other hand is something that you stick on a wall and run away from. So yeah, the Satchel charge gets the edge for practicality and versatility. EDGE: Roebuck

Deadliest Warrior: The Basterds

Although most of my weapon edges were won by Roebuck's gang, the fact is that its not solely in the weapon but its in the warriors. I don't know what the Basterds are, but seeing their actions in that movie, they are not your typical mere infantry. Those guys are probably WWII (Tarantinoverse) Black Ops/Commando/Guerilla fighters whose probably better trained than Roebuck's squad. Then just by looking at what the two groups have accomplished, Roebuck's marine raiders are impressive, but not on par to the Basterds feats such as fighting behind enemy-occupied urban and forest environment, harrassment, intelligence gathering, personnel transport, and off course assassination. Roebuck's not that much of a great leader (getting a lot of his men killed too damn often), while Raine on the other hand is more successful in getting the job done.