- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I dotn want to take total credit for bringing this up. Another person on this forun by the name Draeden has talked about this weapon idea on other topics. I got on the forum a little later than he did, so I dont know how long hes been suggesting this, but I have lobbied the idea too. The gun would be a SAW(Squad Automatic Weapo), which is a handheld machine gun similar to the present M60 and 249 SAW that are used by the US military. These guns are both belt feld out of drums, or tanks that sit bellow the gun like the magazines on assault rifles. The gun in Halo would have to held with two hands, have no zoom or scope. Have an extremely long reload time, which would justify the large capacity of 100 to 200 rounds. The firing rate isnt as fast as the SMG, but the damage would be similar to that of the rounds used in the new Battle Rifle. While carrying the rifle, the user cannot run or walk at the same speed that they would if they were using another weapon, plus the accuracy of the weapon would suck compared to anythign else in the game which would encourage the use of burst firing by the user.
With the addition of a SAW, the idea of a full company or squad would be somewhat complete. You have a general group of troops that use either BRs or SGs, then you have a sniper unit, and then there would be a heavy gun unti that would be acompanied by two troops with battle rifles.
BTW, that last bit was inspired/stolen from a part of the Aliens Colonial Marines manual that was kind of a manual for the Marines that were featured in Aliens. The diagram featured what a platoon should resemble, which consists of two rifle teams that are comprised of for men that use ARs. Then the second part of the team would be the gun team, which consisted of two men with machine guns(not miniguns, Smart Guns), and two men with ARs that would be back up. Wooo, that was a mouthfull.