User blog comment:Deathblade 100/Lest we Forget: German Empire (WW1) vs Ottoman Empire (WW1)/@comment-17814994-20161109141702

Elgb's "Anyone Here Because of Battlefield 1? (Cue Seven Nation Army theme)" EDGES!!!

Rifles: An easy edge to the classic Gewerh 98. The M1903 rifle was just a carbon copy of the old Gewerh 88, and the Gewerh 98 is supposed to be the successor to it. Add also the fact that the Gewerh 98 has the larger stopping power and with less bulky parts make it the better rifle. EDGE: German

Rifles 2: You might wanna change the pic DB, that is a Winchester 1873... not an 1866. Anyways, I'm actually gonna disagree with Spartan here. Even if the Mondragon rifle was the more advanced rifle with tis better stopping power, range, stipper clip feed and semi-auto design, since this battle takes place in the trenches the more reloable and durable Winchester 1866 would win. During WWI, the German Military was so unimpressed with the Mondragon's weakness with mud and dirt that they decided to use it in their airplanes instead, far away from land and trenches. Same thing applies here, the Mondragon will break down and if it does, then the German soldiers are toast. EDGE: Ottoman

LMG: This kinda reminds me of the Type 92 HMG and the Browning .30 cal in WWII, and anyone who knoes these two would knwo which machine gun here is better. While the Hotchkiss can fire at a farther range, the Bergmann simply outlcasses it with its ability to be loaded with a belt and its lighter weight. The Hotchkiss needs like at msot 4 guys to carry efficiently while the Bergmann can be carried by one. EDGE: German

HMG: I like the Maxim and how it revolutionized warfare, but the MG 08 is simply the more advanced weapon here. While it is bulky, it can be fired in a lower position than the Maxim which needs to be proppedup with a tripod like a camera, putting th gunner in the open to be shot with. The MG also has the longer range so that's that. EDGE: German

Semi-Auto: I'm not really a big fan of the Luger and I think that it's not a great weapon to use in the muddy trenches, but it's still is the superior handgun here with its more pwoerful round and slightly more ammo in the mag. EDGE: German

Revolver: I'm giving this to the legendary Smith and Wesson Model 3. The Reichsrevovler may have been used in WWI and even to WWII while the Model 3 only gained fame in the Old West, the German revolver is actually the more obsolete firearm here. The Model 3's trigger guard is an annoying attachment, but it can be relaoded faster than its German counterpart with its top-break design, while the Reichsrevolver is a fixed cylinder design. In revolvers that is a huge game changer. EDGE: Ottoman

Grenade: The steil has more tnt for a bigger boom, and it has a stick to be thrwon farther with than the discus. EDGE: German

Flamethrower: Easy. The German flamethrwoer is lighter and less bulky. EDGE: German

Special: The Gewerh anti-tank rifle maybe lighter, but it's still a single-shot rifle while the Schwarz is a heavy duty machine gun with the same range. The anti-tank rifle can be lugged around more efficiently but it will have a hard time getting moving around in front of even a stationary machine gun drilling it to bits. Worse, is that the anti-tank rifle was designed primarily for tanks, so the maching gun is more useful for me here. EDGE: Ottoman

Special: Welp... again another bad comparison. The MP18 is an actual submachine gun with a drum mag for a faster rate of fire and a buttstock. No contest. EDGE: German

Vehicle: No matter how you see it, the Hotchkiss is just a car, albeit with armor. It does however, still leaves the driver adn the gunner in the open to be shot with. It is way faster than the landship, but the A7V has thick anti-armor protection and large nasal gun. Simply put, the armored car has nothing to damage to tank, but the tank has machine guns and canons to blow it to bits. EDGE: German

Deadliest Warrior?

Straight victory for the German Empire here. I respect that the Ottoman Empire was one of the greatest and longest empires to have risen, but by the time of WWI, it was already a dwindling superpower. The German Empire at WWI was in its highest peak, so it effectively has better logistics, better and mroe advanced weapons, and simply better technology (the Ottomans are using obsolete Winchesters here for christ sakes).

The only thing going for the Ottoman Empire here is its ability to better protect its territory than Germany, like how they decimated the British and French who tried to alnd in their beaches. Still, the Germans took on like what, five countries or more and put up one hell of a fight. The Ottomans jsut stand no chance.