Medium repeating blaster

[therritn]

This probably is covered somewhere, but please refresh my memory. Can a medium repeating blaster be hand carried like a light repeating blaster without a penalty or is it like a heavy repeating blaster in that it can be only tripod/turret mounted?

[Gry Sarth]

Well, there's only really a single example of a Medium Repeating Blaster, and that's the BlasTech Medium Repeater. And info on it is scarce. No picture and no explanation text. But considering it doesn't use a power generator like the Heavy Repeaters, I'd say they are more similar to a Light Repeater. Though it's almost a cannon, I think it's still hand-held.

It's funny, we have this cannon of a medium repeater that does 7D damage, and we wonder if it might need a tripod, however there are things like the "Thunderer" heavy blaster pistol that does 6D+2 damage......
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[garhkal]

Most of the time i have seen medium repeaters, they were either hard mounted (unipods in the back of repulsor vehicles) or carried by wookies/barbels.... So i would say a high str/big character COULD carry it.... But the question to ask imo, is does the MRB have a power generator like the heavy Eweb does....
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[Jedi Skyler]

[Ray]

I read the Light Repeating Blaster as like a BAR or Bren Gun (Light Machine Gun), you can move it around with little difficulty, and *CAN* shoot it from the shoulder, but it's best on a bipod.

The Medium as like a M1919A4 ( http://securityarms.com/20010315/galleryfiles/0900/937.htm ), yes, man portable, but you'll need a tripod. And you better be strong to haul it!

Finally, the Heavy, and a "Ma Duce" .50 Machine Gun or Vickers Water-Cooled Machine Gun. You'll need a bunch of guys to hump it around properly.

As for the Thunderer, take into consideration that it's the Desert Eagle of the Star Wars Universe, it's big, flasy, noticable, impossible to conceal. It's also almost useless for most militaries as it lacks range, and is much too heavy and maintence intensive.

And prone to blowing up.

[KageRyu]

[garhkal]

[KageRyu]

[Jedi Skyler]

[garhkal]

[Ejacobs]

I see the repeating blasters like this. I'll use US military weapons as comparison.

LRB -- Squad Automatic Weapon (Minimi) (5.56 Nato) Easily carried by a single man but uses a bipod for longer distance/controlled firing.

MRB -- M240B medium machine gun. (7.62 Nato) Carried by a single man with difficulty depending on terrain/distance traveled. Uses a bipod for controlled firing as the SAW but second man carries tripod for fixed emplacements. Also vehicle mounted.

HRB -- M2HB (Ma-Deuce) (.50 cal) Only able to be fired from tripod or vehicle mount. Serious firepower and weight. Takes three personel to carry. Barrel, Reciever, Tripod, not counting ammunition. Did I mention the thing weighs a LOT?!

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[Jedi Skyler]

You could get away with two people for the heavy if needed. I was on a fifty cal team. I was ammo bearer, which meant I had the ammo AND the barrels. And yeah, the sucker weighs a LOT.

[KageRyu]

[TarlSS]

Yeah. Conventional military thought is you only need to much to kill a man. A knife in the head and a machine gun will do equally thorough jobs, a machine gun can just do it at a range of a couple hundred feet.

Unless the Medium repeater fires like wide explosive blasts or something, more than likely the shots will make big holes in the flesh. Not really much you can do past outright penetration. All the energy goes into making sure that doesn't dissipate over long distances.

But in adventuring situations you rarely find yourselves battling in open fields and over long ranges of fire. This is why heavy blasters do more damage than Atgar towers- Atgar towers can actually hit things from half a mile away. So yeah, for an adventurer a Thunderer is what you want.

[Ray]

Speak for yourself. We've often found ourselves in situations where the ranges were longer than our Rifles could handle. We've sought out Firearms to get better ranges!

'Course, that's also what mobilization is for, too. Speederbikes and ULAVs!