[OT] [I mean totally OT] Re: What can you "new"

Simen Kjaeraas simen.kjaras at gmail.com
Sun Mar 29 07:53:59 PDT 2009


On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:54:48 +0100, BCS <none at anon.com> wrote:

> Hello Andrei,
>
>> One that I do think would be more lethal is the mounted Gatling M134
>> (that Terminator made famous), see
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minigun. That fires up to 6000
>> rounds/minute which is pretty crazy. I think a salvo of that would
>> have made a trench through the Orcs, the same bullet killing or
>> maiming several of them.
>
> IIRC the 7.62 NATO doesn't have that much penetration (more than the  
> 5.56), enough to do in an Orc, but I don't think it would get the next  
> in line, particularly if the Orc in question has armor on his back.

At least in the movie, the orcs only had front-facing armor, as they
weren't expected to run away from the battlefield.



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