Browning M2
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Browning M2

Heavy Machinegun
Weapon 🔪 Heavy Machinegun ⚡ Foreign Design 📦

The Browning M2 is an American 12.7mm heavy machinegun from WW2. Its most common variants are the M2HB (Heavy Barrel, air-cooled ground forces version) and the AN/M2 (Army-Navy, also air-cooled, for aircraft). It is the single most common weapon of its type in the world, used in every single scenario possible. Unsurprisingly, the M2 is also the most common HMG in Oceanyka.

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Common Attributes - Mechanical

Auto

This weapon is fully automatic, either inherently so or by the presence of a selective-fire mechanism.

EFFECT:
This weapon can fire more than one shot each time it is used. Each subsequent shot has a progressive penalty.
Automatic weapons are considered STABLE when they're mounted on a vehicle, tripod or turret. This is different from the Stabilised SA.

  • Point Blank Range - No penalty.
  • Close Range (≤10m / 2sq) -> -1
  • Short Range (≤50m / 5sq) -> -2 (STABLE: -1)
  • Average Range (≤200m / 10sq) -> -3 (STABLE: -1)
  • Medium Range (≤500m / 20sq) -> -5 (STABLE: -1)
  • Long Range (≤1000m / 50sq) -> -5 (STABLE: -3)

         ~ Beyond this point, automatic fire is unfeasible without a STABLE firing platform. ~

  • Very Long Range (≤2000m) -> (STABLE: -3)
  • Extreme Range (>2000m) -> (STABLE: -5)

Belt-Fed

EFFECT:
This weapon is not fed from fixed capacity magazines, but from belts which can be made as long or short as needed.
Most machinegun belts contain 50, 100, 200 or 250 rounds. Some vehicle belts, however, can be way longer.

Unless specified otherwise, assume all small arms belts to be of 100 rounds.

Common Attributes - National

Superior Firepower - American Small Arms (WW2)

American infantry in World War II, thanks to their nation's unrivalled logistical capacity, could bring to bear unmatched firepower against Comintern troops which were largely equipped with old bolt-action rifles and had sparse organic fire support.

EFFECT:
This weapon enjoys an Easy DM to its Suppressive Fire (2 AP) rolls.

Unique Attributes

Ma Deuce - Browning M2 UA

The Browning M2, or "Ma Deuce" as known by the troops, is the most proliferous heavy machinegun of the Cold War, with a service time of nearly half a century across the entire globe. Although originally designed as an anti-air and anti-tank weapon, it was soon found to be most effective at turning infantry to mush.

EFFECT:
If this weapon kills a creature, automatically induce Dread in any allied unit within Point-Blank Range.

Attributes

Unorganized
TYPE
Heavy Machinegun
TECH
World Wars
WGHT
38kg
AMMO
Belt-Fed
CAL
.50 BMG
RNG
Very Long
DMG
3d20 | Auto
PEN
3
SPC
Superior Firepower, Ma Deuce