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- Somewhere
[X] OH SHIT DOGALI IS USEFULNOW
Small Arms Commission Quest
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- Philmont
I'm thinking maybe a flamethrower, maybe a rifle grenade projector, maybe a regular grenade projector, and if we get lucky maybe a submachine gun or two.
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- Cibao Wilayet, Caliphate of Quisqueya
[X] Plan Experiance
-[X] Linienschiffsleutnant Harel Cseh, medically retired Seebataillone officer.
-[X] Oberleutnant M. Zaslovski, Infantry Officer (Zeměbrana.)
-[X] Major Sandor Ivalko, Infantry officer.
-[X] Herceg Kaila of Kapan, Prince of the Blood, Rittmeister (I. Garde-Fahrende-Artillerie-Regiment) and amateur firearms designer.
-[X] Főhadnagy Ferdinand Kaldhoff, Artillery officer
-[X] SR Tidur, Engineer for the Ordinance Board.
-[X] Linienschiffsleutnant Harel Cseh, medically retired Seebataillone officer.
-[X] Oberleutnant M. Zaslovski, Infantry Officer (Zeměbrana.)
-[X] Major Sandor Ivalko, Infantry officer.
-[X] Herceg Kaila of Kapan, Prince of the Blood, Rittmeister (I. Garde-Fahrende-Artillerie-Regiment) and amateur firearms designer.
-[X] Főhadnagy Ferdinand Kaldhoff, Artillery officer
-[X] SR Tidur, Engineer for the Ordinance Board.
SirLagginton
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- Arrrghhh
[X] OH SHIT DOGALI IS USEFUL NOW
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- Luton Airport
If the infantry were close enough for a SMG or flamethrower to be useful, they'd be close enough to use their existing weapons. It's something to suppress enemy positions enough get them into that close range that's needed.
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A flamethrower ranges about a hundred yards, and a SMG is really good at short suppressing bursts and fighting in a trench- something a bayonet fixed rifle wasn't, because they got caught on everything.
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- Somewhere in the stacks
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[X] OH SHIT DOGALI IS USEFUL NOW
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- Somewhere in the stacks
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- She/Her
P.S. Trench mortar pls
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- Luton Airport
What sort of flamethrowers are you thinking of here? Even the Livens Flame Projector could barely reach that.
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The Time Lords called--they want the TARDIS you used to get a cold-war era design in the 1910s back.The Russian kind, comrade.
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Its not that hard a concept: launch munition, munition sprays fuel, munition lights fuel, fire and explosion. Its not rocket science!
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And way more complex to make work properly than say, a trench mortar, which is literally a tube with a firing pin in it and a bomb with fins and a primer in the base.
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Well you guys wanted more boom, so I'm just providing the means for the end.
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How are you going to get that to work reliably with 1910s tech? We're still at the "handicapped by manufacturing techniques" stage of things. If you're sure we can actually make this work though, I'm all for it.
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Its a sprung cowling on a spin stabilised rocket. As the rocket spins quickly, the centrifugal force holds the cowling over the fuel release ports closed. When a stress gauge inside snaps due to overstress, this springs open a rotational airbrake and the lack of spin lets the spring pull the panels inside the rocket up and away, letting the fuel expand itself rapidly out the ports before being lit by the rocket motor or backup explosive in the nose of he rocket goes boom.
Admittedly, we'd need to make this a 26cm rocket due to manufacturing quality, but that's probably a couple liters of vaporized kerosene. Should make a good boom.
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- Luton Airport
If you want to make someone at distance feel all toasty in WW1, you use one of these:
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- Somewhere
How about just using WP and Napalm? the former should work for obscuring the vision of an enemy MG nest if we miss, and is hopefully easier to work with? I'm assuming it is, because we were actually using it in WWII already.
NHO
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Alternatively, sharpshooters! All the sharpshooters! Machinegun nests can't shoot if you pop the head of the shooter right off.
I think our primary solution to this needs to be something dedicated (I think mortars in particular are simple, practical and appropriate to the tech level, but I'm not well informed enough to be too picky), but I really like the idea of rifle grenades as a component of what we end up with. It would add a lot of versatility and firepower to our infantry for little additional cost and weight.