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Offline Conquistador

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alternatives to Machine Guns
« on: 12 August 2014, 05:37:02 PM »
okay, what if instead of a machine gun (Maxim quality) one fielded a Gardner or Gatling gun?

I have some legacy 25 mm versions of both and was wondering if they should use the Machine Gun statistics or should they use differing statistics?

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Offline Comstar

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Re: alternatives to Machine Guns
« Reply #1 on: 12 August 2014, 06:30:25 PM »
I use machine gun stats for my Nordenfelt gun.

Keeps it simple that way :)
« Last Edit: 12 August 2014, 07:44:32 PM by Comstar »
Cheers Matt

Offline copeab

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Re: alternatives to Machine Guns
« Reply #2 on: 13 August 2014, 12:30:44 AM »
They may be slightly less accurate or have slightly less range (black powder vs smokeless powder)
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Re: alternatives to Machine Guns
« Reply #3 on: 13 August 2014, 07:48:36 AM »
In IHMN we provided what are really weapon templates rather than exact weapons. Thus you could use the Gardner, Gatling or Nordenfeldt as a Machine Gun.

Weapon development was so rapid at the time we felt that it was easier to represent weapons as a type rather than get into all the little differences between a Martini-Henry, and Lee-Metford and a Short Magazine Lee-Enfield.
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