User blog comment:Cfp3157/An October Stained Red with Blood: Bedouin tribes vs. Bolshevik Party/@comment-5232784-20150109043332

"Take no Soviets! Take no Soviets" -Peter O'toole, Commies of Arabia

1. Melee

The bayonet will have the advantage in range. However, the Jambya dagger was designed to be a hand held weapon, while the bayonet, though can be utilized as a hand held weapon, is primarily designed to be mounted on a gun. Given this, it can be concluded that the Jambya will handle better than the bayonet. However, the Bayonet, once put on a gun, makes a pretty long spearhead, and a bayonet mounted gun is a much larger, longer range weapon than a dagger.

EDGE: Bolshevik party!

2. Revolver

The Russian Nagant M1895 has one extra bullet than the Webley mark VI. This tells me that the latter probably has bigger bullets, and therefore more stopping power. However, one extra bullet means one extra Bedouin killed. In many, if not most instances, ammo quantity trumps brute force.

EDGE: Bolshevik party!

3. Bolt action rifle

Both the Mosin-nagat and the short magazine lee enfield have the same exact range, but the Lee enfield has twice the number of bullets, meaning potentially twice as many dead Bolsheviks to Bedouin. Case closed!

EDGE: Bedouin Tribes!

4. Single shot rifle

The Martini-Henry rifle has a 85 meter range superiority over the Berdan rifle. That's about 278 feet, an impressive edge. The Bolsheviks will have to scoot over nearly three hundred feet to get within equal firing range of the Bedouin; plenty of time to get shot by a smiling Bedouin from a safe distance.

EDGE: Bedouin tribes!

5. X factors

Training and experience go to the Bedouin. While they were trained to fight in ways outside of the box, and saw heavy action, the Bolsheviks who served in the Red Guard were more home based prior to the revolution. As far as I know, the average Red guardsman did not know a thing about unconventional combat, though they no doubt had more training with conventional warfare. However, this is where the Bedouin will shine; a great way to fight an enemy that is better trained in normal combat and is superior to your forces is to use guerilla methods of warfare. Give that the Bedouin will be of equal number to the Bolsheviks, and have more experience, I think this gives them the edge here

Brutality goes to the Bolsheviks, but logistics goes to the Bedouin, and anybody in the militaty will tell you that logistics is the key to victory. You can be a blood crazed savage, but if you don't have the logistical back up, you're not going to be able to use that brutality as efficently as you'd crave.

Logistics, experience, training, and unconventional methods gives the Bedouin the victory

EDGE: Bedouin Tribes!

The Bedouin win in the long range department, they have better training, guerilla tactics, and beter logistical support. The Bolsheviks will give them a run for their money, but in a realistic scenario, they'll be picked off from a distance, outgunned from a distance, and get shot from the shadows.

BEDOUIN TRIBES DONT WANT TO JOIN THE BOLSHEVIK PARTY!!!!!!!!