Alternate Weapons of War thread...

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weapons guy said:
The tactical stick, also more commonly known by its abreviation the TAC STK. The weapon was designed and first fielded in the mid 1960s by famous Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara. The main idea behind the design was to be able to mass produce a simple automatic weapon that could be produced using simple labor and factories retooled to produce them. The design was also made simple to allow the smg to function flawlessly in any environment with little or no drop in performance. The durability and reliability of the smg led to it being called the AK-47 of smgs. Noteable features of the gun include the usage of 9mm Markarov pistol ammuntiom to keep the recoil manageable, a simple skeleton extendable stock for longer ranges, and an optional forgrip that was included as a standard for Cuban manufactured guns but not every guerrilla group was able to obtain their own. The STK was capable of sustained fire of up to 700-800 rpm and did not have a burst fire mode. (Later more advanced predecessors would include this feature) The gun could also be cheaply and easily made from scrap metal and spare parts from anywhere around the world. (Manufacture by hand and spare parts commonly resulted in guns with lesser quality but the design was simple enough to easily repair and modify) the gun was a great way of putting devestating firepower in the hands of inexperienced combatants and was best suited for a close quarters role.
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cool but wouldn't 9mm NATO be a better choice? Even back then it was more common than 9mm Mak, even 380acp might be an even better choice. Also 38 super would be an option as well it being popular in Latin America due to bans on civilians owning Military and Police calibers
 
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Shurik said:
Dicking about and patched together a couple ideas.

Bullpup FN FAL. Still a WIP, especially where the stock meets up with the frame.
Only problem being, it's been a WIP for the past 8 months. :D
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the recoil on that and muzzle blast is going to be awful, cool idea though.
 

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SPJ said:
The M1876 Reichsrevolver (aka the Dreyse Zig-Zag), official service pistol of the North German Confederation. It is a 11mm caliber, double action, striker fired gun with a cylinder rotated by a cam lug that moves back and forth along the frame's bottom. Advanced for its own time, accurate, and reliable this revolver remained popular amongst army staff even after it was officially decommissioned.

This specific model was the side arm of the infamous Friedrich 'German Freddie' Nietzsche of Tombstone, AZ (modified to take 44 WCF ammunition).


OOC: I Photoshopped this from pics of a Dreyse/Kufahl Needlefire and a Mauser Zig-Zag revolver. Please let me know what you think. I tried to make it very 'Steam-Punky'!
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You got the steam punk feel to it down, practicality though I have my doubts about it being capable of surviving in the old west or on a battlefield
 
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Diogenes

Angry_scottsman_1989 said:
A silhouette size chart of all the vessels employed by the Earth Space Defence Initiative (SDI) during the Earth-Mars war. From my Oh Homeworld My Heart stories
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Woah :eek:

This is awesome! I loved Homeworld My Heart, especially the ship's and combat scene's, and this is just f***in amazing! Will you be doing one for the Martian forces as well?
 
Zor

Zor



For thousands of years and across a myriad of cultures and numerous species swords have been a staple of war and often a symbol of the warrior, marshal skill and authority. Many variations have existed over the years. There are plenty of instances in which swords have been the primary weapon of a soldier, but more often than not swords are carried as a secondary weapon by archers, pike-men, cavalry, skirmishers and other such soldiers for when the enemy got in close. For this reason while there have been greatswords that can get as long as two meters (if some accounts can be believed), most swords are fairly compact affairs which can be wielded single handedly as a primary weapon. Here are a few common infantry swords as of 36 IA.

Imperial Broadsword: Common among the Empire's men-at-arms, city guards and more recently officers and NCOs in the Allergonian Imperial Army, this style of sword have a fairly simple straight broad blade that narrows before the point. This means that is capable of inflicting grievous wounds, resilliant and is better suited to cutting through mail than most other blades, though it is also fairly heavy (1.5 kilograms) and has a blade less than 60 centimeters long. Such blades are of a Dwarvish style, which is hardly surprising given the fact that the empire has a Dwarvish population of 1.4 million.

Venoan Cutlass: A common sight among Venoan Sailors, the Serene Army and the various regiments and militias is the cutlass. Stouter than a Qanthrathi scimitar, these double edged swords have a slight curve to them improving their cutting power while still retaining a degree of flexibility that other such swords would lack. The design is comparatively recent, emerging over the last 400 years bit by bit. These swords are roughly similar to the Model-3 Infantry sword, but are generally of better quality. The Basket Hilt is a common feature on many Venoan swords both of this variety and others.

Torionese Rapier: This distinct variety of sword common to the Kingdom of Torion but gets some use in Oestia, Nycon and other states in the region as well. These blades are comparatively long, usually about a meter from the tip of the blade to the bottom of the pommel, but are generally fairly light weighing in at a kilogram or less due to their thin blades. light and quick, these needle-like swords mainly made for thrusting and making precise strikes at exposed points. Their hilts are fairly complex and are well suited to parrying other blades. It is the fashion among the Torionese Nobility to wear these swords as part of formal attire.
 

weapons guy

ww1 Mauser assult rifle

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Color-Copycat

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Alone among the nations of Mars, the Orbitaalers have managed to reinvent and preserve the long lost art of the firearm, fielding chemical propellant-based small arms on a scale unmatched by any of their adversaries. Whereas the combined arsenals of the other Martian nations contain at best a pitiful handful of ceremonial service pistols and a precious few ancient automatics, the Orbitaalers are able to arm every one of their burghers and most of their slave auxiliaries with the deadly Orbitaaler Long Rifle and a hundred rounds of ammunition apiece. The undisputed cornerstone of the Orbitaaler commandoes’ modern day arsenals, the Long Rifles are individually custom machined from the steel wrecks of heavy caliber guns and autocannons excavated from the sands of ancient battlefields dating back to the Great War and the Wars of Dissolution. Refurbished, reconfigured, and rechambered to fire bespoke Orbitaaler rounds— which consist of lead slugs soldered to percussion-fused blasting caps that have been delicately recovered from abundant stockpiles of asteroid mining charges— the reconstructed barrels and receivers are housed in modern day furniture painstakingly crafted from lightweight laminated bamboo grown in Orbitaaler hydroponics farms. The resulting Long Rifle is a sturdy and reliable bolt-action, shoulder-fired weapon that can effectively engage individual targets with accurate fire at ranges of up to four to five hundred meters and engage massed or area targets at ranges of up to two kilometers. In comparison, the ancient but still largely functional Mauser laser rifles of the League Aerospace Corps can only engage individual targets at ranges of up to two hundred meters under ideal conditions and are incapable of effectively engaging massed targets. And whereas the intensity of a direct laser burn can be substantially dissipated to nonlethal levels by diffraction through the dense dust clouds of airborne particles kicked up by marching armies and atmospheric storms, the lead slugs of the Orbitaaler Long Rifle are mercilessly dangerous within their effective range without regard to atmospheric conditions. Even a glancing hit to the head or torso by a Long Rifle slug will punch straight through the scrap steel and ceramic plate armor worn by most Martian warriors and cause fatal injury, though the sophisticated ancient ballistic-composite armor sported by elite Marine regulars and ranking Armada officers of the League allows wearers to survive a Long Rifle slug beyond pointblank range with little more than a nasty bruise. In rate of fire, the Mauser laser and Long Rifle are more or less equals, with the Long Rifle constrained by the skill of its operator in working the sometimes tricky bolt and the Mauser laser limited by the variable recharge rate of its fickle capacitor unit. But whereas the Mauser laser can fire only five or six full intensity blasts before exhausting the reserves of its integral power cell, the Long Rifle has unparalleled staying power limited only by the number of rounds carried by its user. However, the unwieldy length, deafening report, brutal recoil, and distinctive muzzle blast of the Long Rifle make it challenging to accurately fire from a standing position and almost impossible to fire while on the move. On the balance, though, the Orbitaaler Long Rifle is the undisputed champion of the long ranged engagement and the lynchpin of the Orbitaaler arsenal.
 

Boristus

American Dynamics G3 Minuteman

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The Minuteman is a fifth-generation Knightmare Frame in service with the United States Army. Employing improvements over the G2 Patriot used during the Southern War, these machines of war are the United State's first line of defense against the aggression of the Holy Lusitanian Empire.
 
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Inquisition

Inquisition

YAMATO BIG

Overview:
Length: 6,174m
Beam: 1,320m
Powerplant and Propulsion:

  • 24x Sobytiy Horizon singularity reactors
  • 1x Fujiwara Mitsubishi singularity FTL drive
  • 1x Mitsubishi Chomsky-type FTL drive
  • 77x antiproton propulsion clusters
Artificial Gravity: 0.98g
Complement:

  • 21,600 enlisted
  • 3000 commissioned officers
  • 3000 marines (optional)
Equipment:
Armament:

  • 1x “Kamikaze” spinal plasma lance
  • 50x “Kaminari” dual mass driver batteries in 25 heavy turrets
  • 108x "Katana" dual railgun batteries
  • 16x torpedo tubes
    • ~8,000 "Ransu" Type 80 torpedoes
  • 15x point-defense laser strips
Armor:

  • 12.1m main armor
  • 16m engine housing armor
  • 13.9m turret armor
  • 15.6m torpedo arm casing
Shield Systems:

  • Outer Shield: Nakajima Type 70 magnetic energy shield
  • Inner Shield: Mitsubishi Type 67 particle shield
Spacecraft Carried:

  • 50x "Amia"-class shuttles
  • 1x captain's yacht
  • 10x marine Type 77 dropships
Used By:

  • Svoboda Prime Pact (particularly Greater Anglyskiyan Dominion)
 
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