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Old January 22nd, 2009, 05:42 PM
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Lightbulb Re: Machine Gun Indirect fires?

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Originally Posted by Griefbringer View Post
An hour long MG barrage would be quite boring to play. And the ammo consumption would be huge, at an average 200 rpm (which is not close to the maximum RoF) it would be 12000 rounds per gun.

That said, it surely would not be nice to be on the receiving end. While a man lying flat takes pretty small area (probably somewhere around 0.6 square meters or so), with enough rounds fired you tend to run a chance of hitting somebody eventually.

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Can't think of it than other being a living hell. under the game you would pretty much need several ammo points of some sort to achieve and hour long sustained fire. Not sure if I'd want to stay still that long before you become the target, especially in PBEM.

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