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The Machine Gun Array (MGA) was developed in 3068 by the Federated Suns. Despite that, the Taurian Concordat was actually the first power to use them, as they had pilfered the technology from the Suns and were able to quickly reverse engineer and put it into production. Clan Diamond Shark also created an identical Clan version that was unveiled around roughly the same time.
The MGA itself allows two to four machine guns of the same type (standard, light, or heavy) to be linked and fired as one.
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The MGA itself allows two to four machine guns of the same type (standard, light, or heavy) to be linked and fired as one.
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- Tech Base: Inner Sphere & Clan
- Unit Restricted: No Restrictions
- Avaliablity: (X-X-F)
Ok, ignoring the time line, this is probably the easiest way to have machine guns be effective. Yeah yeah yeah, its the year 3049 I know. Anyway, current mguns do .4 dp10. So they need a damage boost. Well here it is. Just multiply the ammo consumption, and damage by 4 and problem solved.
In MechWarrior 4 (which also took place in 3068 I know...) had an IS version and Clan version. The IS weighed 1.5 tons (3 mguns) and was 3 shots per volley (the math checks out!) The Clan is the same as the sarna.net linked Clan Diamond Shark, but instead 2 tons per (4 mguns).
So who would be willing to ignore the timeline in this one instance to allow for a canon weapon to be used now and make mguns effective? Idk about you, but a cicada with 4 of these (effectively 16 mguns we have now) sounds pretty damn tempting.
