Heavy Machine Gunners - Purpose?

[sk8inmadkid]

What do you think the purpose of a Machine Gunner is?


Suppresion?
Firepower?
Intimidation?


Let me know your thoughts!


I personally think all 3 come into effect:

Suppression: Big F*cking gun keeps there heads down
Firepower: Will tear the enemy to pieces
Initimidation: Scares the F*ck outta the enemy!


If you had a machine gunner in your squad, or you are one, tell me what you think the main purpose of a machine gunner is, and ideally what weapon you would have!





- Jon

[Withard]

Re: Heavy Machine Gunners - Purpose?

cant have suppression without the other 2 :P

[sk8inmadkid]

Re: Heavy Machine Gunners - Purpose?

Ah

But you can supress with any weapon, given the right situation

[Withard]

Re: Heavy Machine Gunners - Purpose?

if thats the case then if suppressed your intimidating your foes with your firepower.

[sk8inmadkid]

Re: Heavy Machine Gunners - Purpose?

haha


Well said!


Anyone else?

[Garf3r]

Re: Heavy Machine Gunners - Purpose?

i'd say propably distraction, lot a noise, lot a bb's, keeps em pinned while others do a flank mission. In airsoft terms for a Machine gunner firepower wont come into effect because of the fps limits. However i would defo say its Suppresion, defo keeps some peoples head down, Initimidation only works for certain guns. like i wouldnt be scared of say a M249, there so common, when a see a m60 or gpmg, then im like ooh ****

[sk8inmadkid]

Re: Heavy Machine Gunners - Purpose?

haha


How about an airsoft .50 cal? :P

(not the sniper of course, if they were a good sniper, you wouldnt see them!)

[Garf3r]

Re: Heavy Machine Gunners - Purpose?

if its a 8mm sniper one, id royaly ***** myself, if it a was a AEG 6mm one, i'd walk away (jus the same as i do the mini gun)

which actually i could say the first time i saw one i was holy **** a dnt wanna b near tht, however the range is very poor, so its easyly out ranged with my l85 hands down

[Caveira]

Re: Heavy Machine Gunners - Purpose?

Also, most sites allow a higher load of BBs to be carried with support weapons.

Yes, any AEG can lay down suppressing fire, but a decent M249 etc can fire for longer without changing mags and have more mags to use. It's no good using an AK to supress a target if you run out of rounds after 30 seconds and it takes a minute for the flankers to get into position, let alone raking fire across a series of windows when storming a building.

[Combat Hobo]

Re: Heavy Machine Gunners - Purpose?

i tend to use my g3 a support gun what i find is the primary job is suppression and firepower, but intimindation is a bonus as well if they know what they are facing it can cause hesitation.

when patroling and then sudden contact the support gun lays down a wall of fire so the rest of the squad can work out whats going on and get into cover.Then keeping the attackers distracted while the rest of the team focus on hunting taking out the attackers.

[sk8inmadkid]

Re: Heavy Machine Gunners - Purpose?

Good replies guys!


I agree with rockin robin wholely, but my point was any gun could be used for suppression, just some more effectively than others



Keep em coming! I love seeing everyones different opinions on here!

[Leon_London]

Re: Heavy Machine Gunners - Purpose?

Is this thread about real life support gunners or there role in airsoft???

[sk8inmadkid]

Re: Heavy Machine Gunners - Purpose?

Mixture of both really - predominantley airsoft, as its an airsoft forum.


but some tactics can be applied to both

[TriggerHappy]

Re: Heavy Machine Gunners - Purpose?

Eh. I don't see much point in them really. You can effectively suppress a target with any automatic weapon, if you are smart about it, and the added weight of lugging a full metal beast around is just going to give you a disadvantage. Personally, I'd have to say its just for looks, considering you can get 3000 round mags for a variety of assault rifles.

[metalboa]

Re: Heavy Machine Gunners - Purpose?

In my team im the one who lugs the big machine guns around :D

Its great being able to give my team the edge with all the suppression, firepower and intimidation

I started off with a 249 and not everybody would run in the opposite direction as there are a few of them used at my local site.

Yet when I turned up with my m60e4 it scared the crap out of them all and I was able to lay down more covering fire with that and it's got better range and accuracy than my 249