Where are the machine guns?

[bryan25]

Originally Posted by Ed the MAD

automatic weapons are only good for one thing. supressive fire.

since i have seen noone use small unit tactics effectively, i'm going to assume noone knows what the hell supressive fire is.

basically, a light machinegune, or Squad Automatic Weapon(SAW), is issued to two men in a squad, one to each fire team. the SAW is used to keep the enimy's heads down to allow the rest of the squad to either, advance or retreat with a minumum of freindly casualties. i have not seen anyone using this sort of tactics anywhere outside of the military, or PaintBall, and especially not in Planetside. mainly due to the tendency of players going off on their own with no real structure within units. simply put, a machinegun will do you about as much good as a soundless speaker.


one more thing. for the record, the M60 is a Medium Machinegun. it goes like this, M204(5.56mm)=LMG/SAW, M240(7.62)=MMG, M2(.50[12.7])=HMG. it's all about the calibur of ammunition. pistol caliburs are used by Submachineguns, intermediate Caliburs are used in Light Machineguns, Rifle caliburs are used in Medium Machineguns, and heavy, Anti-Materiel caliburs are used by the heavy Machineguns.

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