Infantry Discussion Thread, Mk. 8 Mod. 0 [No Kaiju]

[Nirvash Type TheEND]

Why have an EM2 when you can have an HK36?

Because I don't want my gun to melt :v

[The Archangel Conglomerate]

HK36 was still stamped steel gudness. No melty plastic G36.

[EsToVnIa]

why 4.6x36 when you can go smaller

[Korva]

Bullets are dumb, infantry should carry artillery and noisemakers.

[The Archangel Conglomerate]

why 4.6x36 when you can go smaller

Legit just finished preliminary work on 3x36mm stupidity. Where is your god?

[EsToVnIa]

after reading that?

dead ; _ ;

[Nirvash Type TheEND]

HK36 was still stamped steel gudness. No melty plastic G36.

dammit

This is why you always look both ways before you shitpost.

[The Archangel Conglomerate]

after reading that?

dead ; _ ;

Winar

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dammit

This is why you always look both ways before you shitpost.

Nirv git rekt

[Nirvash Type TheEND]

oh no I've been swirved

[Immoren]

Main infantry weapon chambered to 2mm Kolibri y/y?

[Khornatenreich]

Main infantry weapon chambered to 2mm Kolibri y/y?

2mm kolibri, in a weapon with microburst, and some retardedly huge magazine.


gunmemes for days, the more ridiculous the better.

[Novorden]

Fek your baby calibers:

XV.109 backpack powered fully automatic WW2 rail rifle, firing a 12mm sabot with a 8mm core.


Rounds from top to bottom: Armour piercing incendiary, Armour piercing (tungsten), Incendiary, Hollow point.

All i need now is a drum mag...

[Khornatenreich]

Fek your baby calibers
XV.109 backpack powered fully automatic WW2 rail rifle, firing a 12mm sabot with a 8mm core.

Ohmyfuckingyes..........................


An echoed voice of approval from the saltflats beyond the DEAT sounding vaguely like Tsavon says "Good work"

[Gawdzendia]

Fek your baby calibers
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XV.109 backpack powered fully automatic WW2 rail rifle, firing a 12mm sabot with a 8mm core.

Sex me now with your Wunderwaffe.

I've also been working on some... unconventional weaponry, mostly an update to my Bullshitium Displacement Rifle.
Cause screw wizards.

[Fordorsia]

Companion cavalry vs Frog lancers who wins gogogo

Frog lancers because stirrups, high cantled saddles and bigger horses.

I thought stirrups only really gave an advantage to horse archers, allowing them to move around in the saddle better.

[Puzikas]

oh no I've been swirved

Tyrannosaurus rekt
Skkkrub

Fek your baby calibers:

XV.109 backpack powered fully automatic WW2 rail rifle, firing a 12mm sabot with a 8mm core.

How uh...how's it work?
Is it one of those hybrid chemical-rail rifles that uses a boosting charge mostly to cycle action and push rounds into the magnetic feild?
Some weird electronic autolock?
Handwavery?

I thought stirrups only really gave an advantage to horse archers, allowing them to move around in the saddle better.

Idk about war horsies but from riding horsies irl stirrups make a world of difference

[Spirit of Hope]

Frog lancers because stirrups, high cantled saddles and bigger horses.

I thought stirrups only really gave an advantage to horse archers, allowing them to move around in the saddle better.

They also combine with other saddle technologies to make it easier to stay in the saddle, which is helpful when swinging a sword or using a lance.

[Aqizithiuda]

Frog lancers because stirrups, high cantled saddles and bigger horses.

I thought stirrups only really gave an advantage to horse archers, allowing them to move around in the saddle better.

There's been considerable debate over whether it was the stirrup or the high cantled saddle that allowed massed charges of heavy cavalry into infantry, but it's clear that, when they did arrive, there was an increase in the ability of a rider to couch their lance and charge into enemy forces. The combination of stirrup and (I believe) the high cantle saddle allowed the rider to more easily keep their seat during the shock of impact, and also allowed them to transmit more force into the impact of the lance.

The companion cavalry of Alexander had no such advantages.

[Husseinarti]

Fek your baby calibers:

XV.109 backpack powered fully automatic WW2 rail rifle, firing a 12mm sabot with a 8mm core.
(Image)
(Image)
Rounds from top to bottom: Armour piercing incendiary, Armour piercing (tungsten), Incendiary, Hollow point.

All i need now is a drum mag...

It needs some kind of atomic core to power it.

[Fordorsia]

I thought stirrups only really gave an advantage to horse archers, allowing them to move around in the saddle better.

There's been considerable debate over whether it was the stirrup or the high cantled saddle that allowed massed charges of heavy cavalry into infantry, but it's clear that, when they did arrive, there was an increase in the ability of a rider to couch their lance and charge into enemy forces. The combination of stirrup and (I believe) the high cantle saddle allowed the rider to more easily keep their seat during the shock of impact, and also allowed them to transmit more force into the impact of the lance.

The companion cavalry of Alexander had no such advantages.

They still wrecked shit though.

How well trained were French lancers compared to the Companions?

[Spirit of Hope]

I thought stirrups only really gave an advantage to horse archers, allowing them to move around in the saddle better.

There's been considerable debate over whether it was the stirrup or the high cantled saddle that allowed massed charges of heavy cavalry into infantry, but it's clear that, when they did arrive, there was an increase in the ability of a rider to couch their lance and charge into enemy forces. The combination of stirrup and (I believe) the high cantle saddle allowed the rider to more easily keep their seat during the shock of impact, and also allowed them to transmit more force into the impact of the lance.

The companion cavalry of Alexander had no such advantages.

From what I have read the general agreement is that both are good, and together they allowed much better control and stability on horse back than previous. IIRC Byzantine cavalry started using some massed heavy cavalry tactics with just the high cantled saddle, but that the arrival of stirrup increased their combat ability.

[Schwere Panzer Abteilung 502]

As an equestrian myself, no, you don't need stirrups to do most of the things. However, they do help a great deal in letting you concentrate less on your body position and more on everything else you're doing.

[Fordorsia]

As an equestrian myself

haha ur a horse

[Aqizithiuda]

There's been considerable debate over whether it was the stirrup or the high cantled saddle that allowed massed charges of heavy cavalry into infantry, but it's clear that, when they did arrive, there was an increase in the ability of a rider to couch their lance and charge into enemy forces. The combination of stirrup and (I believe) the high cantle saddle allowed the rider to more easily keep their seat during the shock of impact, and also allowed them to transmit more force into the impact of the lance.

The companion cavalry of Alexander had no such advantages.

They still wrecked shit though.

How well trained were French lancers compared to the Companions?

Given that Norman cavalry conquered most of Italy, conquered Sicily and rekt the Byzantine Empire a number of times, they were pretty well trained.

The development and spread of the tournament in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries only increased their training, discipline and ability to stay in formation while charging, at least when competently lead and when the army wasn't composed of factions who were all but at war with each other.

[Fordorsia]

Shit no not Frogs in the Middle Ages. I meant Napoleonic ones.

Do the Napoleonic Lancers even have their own name?