Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:39 amThe Akasha Colony wrote:Gallia- wrote:
Their gats are huge and also:
How so?
Their rifles are shorter than an M4 with an extended stock; they're 780 mm (78 px), or exactly the same length as the actual Steyr ACR on which they're based. I just straightened out the curves because the funky 1980s curved design didn't appeal to me.https://www.dropbox.com/home/public/lineart/Spergscale/Infantry/airborne-platoon.png
No M60s. Ergo lose.
Link's dead.e: Radars on tanks and fire protective masks and optical sights for all troopers SUCH DECADENCE. No wonder the Sahara tried to turn itself into a desert to punish this sheer impertinence.
Iron sights and whistling makes men among men. ;-;
Suppressors for every man too. The wealth of Mother Africa is limitless.
e2: Mortarmen need assistants. It should be a 2-man mortar team at least.
I was mostly concerned about having enough mortars to justify having them at all. Would it be feasible to take the ammo bearers from the medium machine gunners to maintain two two-man mortar teams?
And roughly how much ammo would they be expected to carry?Korva wrote:You should add some variation, like not everyone wearing eyepro, or some sleeves rolled up, etc.
I'll get around to it. One of the actual planned changes was to change up ethnicities, but I have yet to bother finding good skin tone colors for North and Sub-Saharan Africans or Hispanics, etc. The pasty Scandinavian white they are right now should be a minority but those colors are easier to copy over.
1) They just look really big. I think it's because they have the
2) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/653 ... latoon.png
3) Well it's Carthage. Practically invented Western Decadence with all that trade and being better than kleptocratic predator state Rome at wealth stealing/creation.
Carthage
Columbia
Rome
Russia
Coincidence? You decide!
Anyway if it's suppressors then yeah that's why they look huge. I was expecting a 2 pixel barrel and I got a 5 pixel ebony staff. ):
4) One mortar is infinitely more mortars than most platoons have these days. The platoon mortar is literally just going to be used to throw WP at pillboxes and stuff anyway.
Yes, you can run a MMG with a two-man team provided it doesn't have a tripod or anything substantially heavy. The second man is the assistant/bearer and the first man carries the MMG with a bipod on the end. In a three-man machine gun crew, generally the third man carries yet more ammunition or the tripod assembly. A tripod isn't something that's normally expected for a rifle platoon, though. That's something a weapons platoon might have in a company.
You could also have a mortar squad in the platoon, but they won't have a lot of ammunition. It might be better to roll in a platoon sniper/marksman and maybe a RATELO for the platoon leader.
Mortar team of two men might carry 12-15 rounds of 60mm. If it's anything like M224 this is maybe 20-30 seconds of firing at maximum rate. Good thing a platoon mortar isn't good for volume of fire but for responsiveness of fire. Anyway it would probably consist of the assistant carrying a packboard or rucksack frame with 10-12 mortar rounds in their carrying cases:
And the mortar gunner may be able to carry another 3-ish rounds if he's a Big Dude:
Once you get into companies, mortar ammunition supply becomes more inventive and interesting:
