I wanted answers to the same questions so I did end up buying them.
Production is good for a fan made product and generally it's consistent throughout.
Every entry has at least one illustration and a weapon card format is used for every single entry however there are times when there are more spaces on a card than needed and it just looks like "dead" space.
For an illustration of what I mean, compare the cartridge entry for these two pistols. The author has a format that works and he has applied it consistently across all weapons but in the case of the Akdal pistol, the section under Cartridge looks like it's wasted on a bunch of lines for no real reason.
(I don't particularly want to post images from his books so please forgive me for using online storage sites)
MEGA link: -
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As for writing quality, generally it's good but it's obvious at times that the author is not a native English speaker although that does not detract from the product overall. There are a few factual inconsistencies such as the 7.62mm L2A1 rifle being described in such a way that it infers that the L2A1 was taken into service by the
British Army to replace its Bren Guns.
Only Canada and Australia used the L2A1 (known as the C2 in Canadian service).
However, there are a few gems for firearms enthusiasts, the SMG version of the HK G11 project being one such item. There's not enough information to definitively decide what the situation was with this variant but enough information to infer it was a developmental model that helped lead to the final rifle form of the HK G11 and that it was not meant to be a production weapon.
I wasn't even aware of it's existence until I read this book (although there does not appear to be any mention of the competing Mauser G11 project)
The author includes some expansions on the rules and formula found in the original 2nd Ed. Infantry Weapons book and also includes a glossary and a summary of the country of origin of the various weapons (that also works as an index). It should be noted however that the country abbreviations cross between the Finnish language (more on this below) and English language abbreviations. So for example, Austria is abbreviated as AUT and Germany is abbreviated DEU.
There's also a small expansion on shotgun ammo types (as in buckshot for 16g, 20g and 28g).
He has also included the USCM weapons from the Aliens movie however there is no list of ammunition for the purposes of buying ammo. In the GDW book there was a section listing the various cartridges and weights per magazine size and by crate as well as prices and availability for them. That is totally absent in this book.
The Heavy Weapons book has the same production level and consistency and also some of the minor foibles of the Infantry book. However it wins a few extra points from me because there's a dash of colour on the weapon card that really helps break up that overall white and grey look in the Infantry book.
He includes various hand grenades of different capacities so that you get a range of different Concussion/Blast ranges but repeats the same issue I have with the GDW books - 40x46mm Low Velocity grenades have the same (or sometimes even greater) blast and damage potential as hand grenades. I have an issue with this because the 40mm grenades typically carry a much smaller charge than a typical hand grenade.
For example, he has the M26A2 Hand Grenade (listed as the Mk26A2) as having 180 grams of TNT with C:3 B:7. He lists no weight for the M26 but it's generally around 450 grams
He has the 40x46mm HE grenade as weighing an average of 300 grams but with C:3 B:10. However a typical 40mm low velocity HE only carries around 30 grams of charge.
He states that he used the weight of the explosive charge in the 40mm HE and extrapolated from there using the volume of the round... but... the round itself includes the propellant charge and case which have to be treated as separate to the projectile and should not be factored into any calculations about the projectiles explosive power.
There is a section at the back of the Heavy Weapons book listing the various projectiles but here the author's native language (I am assuming) shows itself as the hand grenades are listed as "Kranaatti" which according to my friend Google Translate, is Finnish for Grenade.
Again there is a glossary and a country summary that also works as an index.
He also makes an interesting choice in regard to price and availability codes in this book. He lists the various rounds of ammunition be they hand grenade or RPG round and gives the price for both a single round and also a crate price if applicable. However he states that he has not included any availability codes.
He has not been able to supply prices for a number of ammunition types and I'm still trying to figure out what his abbreviation of "WH" means for the price code of disposable rocket launchers. I was thinking maybe it means "whole" but that doesn't jibe with the fact that the card includes price for one round in the same section of the card.
Overall, they are both decent books although probably more appropriate for a T2k setting were the war occurs sometime in the later 2000s or even 2010s. However they are both more than suitable for Merc: 2000 campaigns if you decide to have the weapons from the 2000s time period as advanced gear from high tech sources (or you know, simply setting the Merc game in the 2020s) and also for Dark Conspiracy (with it's original setting of approximately 2013/2014).
They're not expensive and I have no real regrets for buying them sight unseen. There's some minor issues here and there but nothing game breaking or soul destroying so I think most T2k 2nd/2.2 players would find them useful.