British Units and Machineguns

[L.T. Russell]

I think the British Automated Infantry are a clever idea….however, while I have no problem with the idea of a 10 foot robot toting around an MMG or HMG and firing it from the hip, why aren’t they suffering a minus for using a crew-served weapon without having a crew and/or a range subtraction for not having the gun on a tripod?  Same with the Galahad armored infantry.  These guys appear to have some sorta chopped-down Lewis Gun affixed to their arm, but again it’s a crew-served weapon without a crew, being fired hand-held….

The Warlord Games group I game with routinely refer to the “The Cheaty British”….

[Attention Span Labs]

I did not realize that the Galahads each had an LMG! I assumed they were assault rifles, like everyone else’s powered armor. Wowzers. They also have both Resilient AND Tough, too. They’re slow, but since you can plop them in a Kangaroo, who cares about that?

[L.T. Russell]

Howdy Attention Span Labs!  Yeah, I’ve played my Germans against a couple of our Brit players and those squads full of MGs are murder.  About the only saving grace is that Automated Infantry don’t hand-to-hand very well….IF I can get my Schreckwulfen and Nachtjaeger ON them.  Schreckwulfen riding in Hanomags idea is what got me into Konflikt 47 in the first place….

[Aidan]

“Schreckwulfen riding in Hanomags idea is what got me into Konflikt 47 in the first place….”

Now that’s gotta be a sight to see.

[Bob Philip]

A lot of the powered suits have lmg and heavier, its not just the Brits that have them, might want to check out the other factions  powered suits.

[L.T. Russell]

Howdy Bob!

If you look close, you’ll see my initial post was from two years ago, referring to Konflikt Version 1.  Yeah, IMO, it’s gotten totally out-of-hand in Version 2.0.  Now all these countries that never even had a real belt-fed LMG in WWII suddenly have one on every single armored suit.  And there’s a buncha special exceptions so now the one man with an LMG attached to his arm can somehow do the work of two, and still somehow fire at max-effective range, without a tripod or a T&E device.  The British robots are the most ridiculous.  One robot doing the work of a three or four man crew.  The Lancer is the most broken.  Somehow this one robot is doing the work of 12 men.  My Warlord Gaming group refers to them as the Cheaty British….

 

[Bob Philip]

Ah sorry mate , I didn’t notice thats why I was a bit surprised at the post.

[L.T. Russell]

No problem, Bob.  I complain a bit about firearms, ’cause I’m under the impression that pretty much no one at Warlord Games seems to know how they actually work.  IMO, these errors seem to always benefit the Allied players, at the expense of the German players.  One of my contentions is that magazine-fed guns, like the BREN, Lewis, ZB26, Nambu, are not actual LMGs, like the MG34 and/or 42, even if used in that role.  They’re not belt-fed, so they’re automatic rifles, like the BAR….

Good gaming to you, mate!

 

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