All those modifications could have been done in an afternoon. If you spend three weeks doing that, you're doing it wrong.
And I don't think that work is necessarily unproductive. If you only focus on weaponry, yes, you're bound to lose, but a focus on all elements is the winning strategy, which is the message here as far as I can tell.
I'm waiting for the comic with the guy with a squirt pistol who thinks he's part of the SWAT team losing to a guy with more than 5 feet of range.
