Dakka. You need more of it. No exceptions.

For any who don't know: "2IC=2nd In Command".

I havent played that game, Shiro, so I have no idea what thieves and "platinum" are.

Is that an LSW?? Or maybe not, I dont know

The SUSAT scope is pretty neat.

Btw, has anybody here ever played any S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game?

LOL @ the hypothermia comment

Edit: Nevermind, saw Whiskey's comment on 2IC.

"We were inhuman beings....butchers on a field of corpses....corrupt and depraved....only a sum of viscera, blood, and bone - Creatures without soul."

Just tell me the game's name, lol

I wantz to play it!

Btw, I beat Cursed Treasures twice by now.

"We were inhuman beings....butchers on a field of corpses....corrupt and depraved....only a sum of viscera, blood, and bone - Creatures without soul."

Make a snow bowser!!!

Sounds awesome!!!

You should ask him to hook you up with her

"We were inhuman beings....butchers on a field of corpses....corrupt and depraved....only a sum of viscera, blood, and bone - Creatures without soul."

Why is that?

Yes, please do. I am interested.

"We were inhuman beings....butchers on a field of corpses....corrupt and depraved....only a sum of viscera, blood, and bone - Creatures without soul."

@Morph:

The LSW was developed to be an LMG for continuous suppressive fire. However, it is far less useful for that role when compared to other modern LMGs due to the fact that it uses a 30-round magazine, with no capability to use a drum magazine without a lot of modification, and using a belt feed is near to impossible without a complete redesign of the weapon. Of course, some other LMGs can use 30-round magazines, but they usually can also be fitted with a larger form of magazine.

Anyway, the loadout of an infantry section.

An infantry section consists of two fireteams, "Charlie" and "Delta." Usually, Charlie consists of a Corporal (who is also in charge of the section as a whole) and three Privates, while Delta consists of a Lance-Corporal (who is second-in-command) and another three Privates. Of course, this is all subject to the situation. For instance, if the corporal were to be killed, the Lance-Corporal would take charge of Charlie, and a Private would fill in as 2IC of the section.

The weapons loadout of each fireteam is almost always identical. The commander of the fireteam would have an L85A2 assault rifle, then one man would be armed with an L85A2 with an underslung grenade launcher, another man would be armed with L86A2 LSW, and finally one man would have an L110A1 LMG.

The L110A1 is the British designation for the Belgian FN Minimi's "paratrooper" variant, the difference being that the paratrooper variant has a shorter barrel and a collapsible stock.

BTW I'm pretty sure we use the Minimi with a 200-round box magazine to make up for the lower ammunition capacity of the LSW. Could be wrong though. If we do use 30-round mags with it then I have no idea why we have them.

Effectively, the Minimi has replaced the LSW as the suppressing weapon of the section, as the LSW is now filling the role of DMR for the section.

"You think wrong. Let me fix that for you."

LOL FAIL

Why would someone design a weapon as an LMG, and neglect the possibility of making it able to be fitted with a drum mag, or at least belt round feed? Thats ridiculous.

It would be a shame if you didnt use anything else other than the 30-round mags.

Question: Is the L110A1 exactly the same as the Belgian Minimi? And if not, what are their differences?

"We were inhuman beings....butchers on a field of corpses....corrupt and depraved....only a sum of viscera, blood, and bone - Creatures without soul."

@Oatesy- yes. Yes I am. Because the SA80 has 300 meters of effective range against a point target.

The M-16A4 has a 600 meter point target effective range.

@morph- Yes, the L86's design is quite ridiculous. However, WWII-era suppressive weapons for small infantry teams used smaller mags than that; the US Browning Automatic Rifle used a 20-round magazine.

As for the L110A1 vs the Minimi, I'm 99% certain that it's a matter of national designation.

In contrast the US M-249 (and variants) are slightly different from the Belgian Minimi (the '249 is based on the Minimi).

Which of course means that the technical limitations of the rifle are 300 meters effective range.

While the M-16A4 has a 600 meter effective range by technical limitations. The older A2 was 550 meter effective range.

However, I would take a G-36 rifle over either the L85 (which is rather heavy and not left-handed shooter friendly) or an M-16 (the '16 just isn't reliable enough for my tastes).

And even then, an AK-series rifle would be preferably; virtually unmatched reliability and simplicity of design. The G-36's advantage is primarily due to versatility.

Its not snowing here anymore.....BLARG!

Yes, I remember that, however the BAR pretty much OMGWTFBBQ PWNS stuff with just 1 bullet. Its stopping power was unbelievable for that era. Am I wrong?

True, true.

That is what effective range means. Discounting any human and environmental factors (if you are somewhere with heavy wind, it will affect effective range for sure), and counting only the weapon's physical/practical limitations.

So, I have no idea why you're talking about iron sights, and SUSAT scopes here. These have nothing to do with effective range, technically.

"We were inhuman beings....butchers on a field of corpses....corrupt and depraved....only a sum of viscera, blood, and bone - Creatures without soul."

and

= The L85s effective range is 600m, as I said. Somebody thought they'd include human factors when they figured it out, which while helpful in a way, makes comparison confusing. So the effective range is 600m. It has the same barrel length as an M16. Therefore it will have a similar range. The British Army wouldn't use it as an assault rifle if it had an effective range of 300m, which it doesn't even with ironsights. The figure given for a rifle with ironsights is 400m, and unless the SUSAT magically boosts muzzle velocity and/or barrel length, then 600m would be its effective range.