lord_olafson said:
Well, while standing, but not while moving? Atleast not accurately. ?
you realise that pretty much all the machineguns in the war use the exact same round as their equivalent rifles, right? And being heavier by about 2x theyd have less "felt" recoil per shot.
Theyre heavier so theyre harder to shoulder, and in the chauchat's case firing from the hip could allow the weapon to slide back and forth, cancelling some of the recoil and potentially causing FTF, but theres no reason you can't fire them while on the move. None at all. It's only the weight which makes them awkward to shoulder. The gun itself is still going to be just as accurate, and seeing as its an MG you could "walk" the rounds into the target if your first few shots were off mark.
They're not going to be as accurate as a careful, shouldered rifle shot but there's nothing stopping you from walking around shooting an MG from a lowered position, and nothing really stopping you from landing hits accurately once you get a feel for where it's pointing.
For every shot fired there is a small chance of the gun jamming. The chance varies between guns. Currently there is no war to fix gun jams. Prone seems like something incredibly hard to do so we'll have to see if Azrooh is able and willing to do it.
Reason i bring up prone is i was going to say after prone travel it would make sense to have a higher chance of guns jamming. (this would also serve as a measure to detract people from "creeping" light machineguns right up into enemy spawn areas) Maybe the same for shells landing nearby. Most stoppages in the chauchat were caused by dirt in the action. Others were deformed magazines (probably from reckless clambering around and banging them together in your webbing) and inapporpriate ammunition in the americans' case. You would also sometimes get a bad round or two which wouldn't cycle the action. The fix for that would be as simple as recocking the thing.
But i dunno. Without prone i dont think it's gunna feel much like ww1.
also whats with dudes spamming nonsense?
