Vickers Machinegun
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Vickers Machinegun

Heavy Machinegun
Weapon 🔪 Heavy Machinegun ⚡ Foreign Design 📦
Maxim Gun

The Vickers Machinegun is a British heavy machinegun used extensively by the British Empire and post-revolutionary Britain in both the Great War and World War II. It is essentially an improved Maxim Gun with multiple modifications, and chambered in .303 British. Vickers MGs saw use throughout the entire globe in practically all armies, especially in states and nations descended from the British Empire, such as Oceanyka.

Abilities

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

Unsetting Sun - British Small Arms (WW1)

The British Empire was denominated "the empire where the sun never sets". It was the most extensive political entity in human history, owing largely to the capacity of Britain's soldiers and sailors to fight anywhere across the world, adapting to the circumstances at hand and exploiting them for the Empire's benefit. British small arms philosophy at the turn of the century emphasised the ability to fight anywhere and everywhere.

EFFECT:
This weapon is immune to the effects of operating in mud, wetlands, jungle, desert, extreme cold or extreme heat (see Reliability & Maintenace Rules)

Unique Attributes

The Devil's Paintbrush - Maxim Gun UA

Hiram Maxim's invention is regarded by military theorists as a revolutionary breakthrough. By the young boys who had to go over the trench and into its line of fire, it was better known for its old moniker, one it gained by crushing the armies of countless, more primitive civilisations across the globe: the Devil's Paintbrush, a perfect instrument of death.

EFFECT:
This weapon automatically induces Dread when fired at a target with 0 ARM.


Whatever happens, we have got
the Maxim gun, and they have not.

Attributes

Unorganized
TYPE
Heavy Machinegun
TECH
Victorian
AMMO
Belt-Fed
CAL
.303 British
RNG
Long
DMG
3d6 | Auto
PEN
2
SPC
Unsetting Sun, The Devil's Paintbrush