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regarding gatling/minigun
TrashMan:
Technicly, some gattling guns use what you might call a "clip".
The Microgun in particular uses 2 boxes with 500 bullets each. Both boxes are carried on the back. Those ammo boxes have 2 openings for both ends of hte ammo chain, and the begining from chain 2 is attached to the end of chain1, so the gun feeds from both boxes. F'course, once both boxes are empty you need to replace them. But 1000 bullets is a lot of firepower thrown around.
Use caseless ammo and you can easily go to 3000 bullets with roughly the same volume and weight.
Now you shouldn't start with such a weapon. You could get an option to develop it later in-game, after your think tank fiddled with alien tech for a while. That's got to inspire whole new ideas by itself, let alone new materials and other tech that could be used.
In that regard, such a gattling cannon wouldn't be "standard" human tech (no more than the bolter rifle).
And IIRC, both X-Com AND the UFO series both had miniguns of some sort. And both games were great. So you were saying something about a different type of game?
Darkpriest667:
since you guys reignited the topic ill add my 2 cents
instead of miniaturization of powder weapons im wondering
This might be an idea for a new research proposal... rapid fire bolter weapons (based on guass or rail gun technology)
any thoughts?
BTAxis:
We already have all the human tech weapons we want. So no.
Darkpriest667:
--- Quote from: BTAxis on June 10, 2008, 01:23:09 am ---We already have all the human tech weapons we want. So no.
--- End quote ---
you guys certainly arent going for 2084 earth ... ... thats all im gonna say about this....
every technology mentioned could be factory produced today... but its your game do what you want.
BTAxis:
Thank you, we shall.
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