User blog comment:Creepyfan80/IRA vs Medellin Cartel/@comment-5795750-20130924073005

BG1's "Not a Bad Start" Edges:

Close: While the KA-BAR is a very deadly fighting knife, it is simply outclassed in range by the longer machete

EDGE: Medellin

Short: Pistol > Revolver 100% of the time because the pistol contains a bigger magazine, a higher muzzle velocity, at least a little more range, bigger rounds and easier reload

EDGE: Medellin

Medium: Both are pretty awful spray-and-pray weapons and while the Thompson fires the larger round in a drum magazine, the Uzi sprays the deadlier bullets and is more manoeuvrable; at the end of the day though, I will like to give it to the Thompson because to the IRA, the gun possess great firepower in close-quarters combat

EDGE: Medellin

Explosive: I disagree with what the DW guys say about this matchup - the RPG is more manoeuvrable, has quantifiable range (range on the car bomb is dependent upon the car and the remote range) and a larger explosive payload being a rocket head (which amounts to more collateral damage if it does hit a car)

EDGE: IRA

Overall: This seems to me like a combination of both Pirates vs Cartel and a battle I gave a vote on recently - IRA vs Zapatistas - and to me the Irish Republican Army has this one in the bag. The Cartel only uses modern weapons that are meant to cause fear and confusion whereas the IRA packs weapons that do that and more; you also have to take into account that the IRA possess better logistics, training and combat experience being an armed militia/guerilla group rather than a criminal enterprise like the Cartel are; in the end, the Cartel has been caught whereas the IRA are still alive and continuing to push forward their agendas