Vickers K Machinegun
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Vickers K Machinegun

Heavy Machinegun
Weapon 🔪 Heavy Machinegun ⚡ Foreign Design 📦

The Vickers K, also known as the Vickers Gas Operated (VGO) is a British aircraft-mounted machinegun used extensively by the Republican Air Force (RAF) throughout World War II. It's mechanically more similar to the Bren Gun than it is to the similarly named Vickers Machinegun, though it differs from both due to its high rate of fire, capable of delivering up to 1,200 RPM from a 100-round drum magazine of .303 British, comparable to the infamous MG 42. The Vickers K is gas-operated and air-cooled. As the war progressed, the Vickers K was adapted for ground use by special forces, including the Special Air Service, who valued its reliability and firepower during raids and special operations.

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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)

Common Attributes - National

Steady and True - British Small Arms (WW2)

The British Army, well aware of its numerical inferiority against any of Europe's great powers, has always put a premium on the individual soldier's discipline and rifle marksmanship. Every British infantryman is a skilled shooter and is issued a rifle that allows them to be so.

EFFECT:
This weapon gains an Easy DM when performing Aimed Fire (2 AP) beyond Medium Range.

Unique Attributes

Desert Raider - Vickers K UA

Britain's Long Range Desert Group (LRDG), predecessor of the Special Air Service">Special Air Service, famously preferred the Vickers K as its weapon of choice for raids deep into the West Asian desert. Comintern forces would be caught by surprise as armed commandos would storm out of the sands, blasting their rapid-fire Vickers Ks with great accuracy into anything that moved. 

EFFECT:
This weapon's UA effect depends on its current weapon type:

  • Light Machinegun: If this weapon's user performs a Move and a Sprint in a single turn, they may use Aimed Fire or Suppressive Fire at a reduced cost of 1 AP.
  • Heavy Machinegun: This weapon does not suffer from the Run & Gun Rules">Run & Gun Rules accuracy penalty if it fires from a moving vehicle; additionally, it gains an Easy DM to its hit rolls.

Attributes

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TYPE
Heavy Machinegun
TECH
World Wars
WGHT
13kg
AMMO
100
CAL
.303 British
RNG
Long
DMG
3d6 | Auto
PEN
2
SPC
Steady and True, Desert Raider