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Old 02-12-2019, 09:06 AM   #228
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Default Re: Shellac

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Originally Posted by Icelander View Post
Basically, the reason the ASNs are not content merely with manufacturing ammunition for the 7.92x57mm, but have complicate their supply with far larger rounds is the fauna of Jötunheim, and the fact that equally hostile critters of unhealthy size can be found on many other worlds. If you have to fight off mana-powered super-dinosaurs (or über-archosaurs) with a taste for human flesh, you'll start wishing for more firepower pretty quickly.
Bear in mind that the most common round for killing elephants is 7.62x39mm using ball ammo. The most common rifle, some kind of AK-type.

Aside from possibly resurrecting an anti-tank rifle (common sense would be copying one or both of the Soviet 14.5mm rifles, Nazi pride might require using the old German WWI rifle or a derivative thereof), the most effective anti-dinosaur weapon would be an MG42. MG42s also work on hordes of barbarians, light vehicles, and TL6-7 enemies should you bump into them.

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The ASNs cleared the area around their initial research stations and later first settlements on Jötunheim using chemical weapons in 1943-1944, but once they emigrated from Earth in 1945, they didn't have access to large quantities of stockpiled chemical weapons any more and until the ASNs can build up a local chemical industry, they're down to shooting any obstreperous native fauna. And yes, they did use precious Panzershrecks, until they ran out and probably couldn't replace them until industry was further along.
Panzerfausts are pretty easy to make, and only the high-explosive for the warhead is at all sophisticated - the launch system is a simple low-grade steel tube and a black powder charge.
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