Re: Toys from Jane's...

On 10-Apr-01 at 19:50, Rick Rutherford (Rick@esr.com) wrote:
> Brian Burger wrote:
> >
> > In SG2 terms, I'd call it a regular FP2 assault rifle, with an FP2
> > close-only shotgun added - no grenade launcher, obviously. Cutting
the
> > shotgun back to FP2 seems to make sense, when it's not a full-sized
> > automatic combat shotgun. It would count as a shotgun in CC, though.
> 
> Hmmm... the grunts have to carry & sort out two kinds of ammo for the
same
> weapon? I dunno Brian, I can see this turning bad in a hurry if the
soldier
> has to fish around in his kit for the right kind of ammo while he's in
the
> middle of a firefight. I doubt that green troops could handle it very
> well...

That's what training is for.

Roger (getting tired of the "stupid grunts" comments, and I'm an