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Old 02-02-2018, 10:00 AM
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Interesting question in the Morrow Project there seem to be relatively few industrial societies, just the KFS, Maxwell's Militia seem particularly large. Further each of these societies would have to produce everything from scratch. The high quality steel for the gun barrels, the copper for the bullet casings. There wouldn't be any old Warsaw pact warehouses with a million bullets in them.

So the chances are these post-apocalyptic nations would be building guns, but simpler, more robust ones without a need for complex mechanisms, fully automatic settings or exotic materials.

If they built something like an M16 it would most likely be one with a wooden stock, semi auto only, a full length barrel and a 10 round magazine (discourages waste and less of an issue if the springs wear out or are made from cheaper material).

I'm sure an earlier post pointed out how labour intensive making an M1911 actually is. So maybe replaced by a more basic revolver, does the job perfectly well for a lot less effort to build.

Some of the earlier supplements suggest interesting anomalies, like Krell using Gatling guns (jam less often), MM the Garand rifle (simple and robust to build, with long range and respects skill) and of course the KFS distributing crappy trade muskets to keep the local tribes poorly armed.

nb 2 thoughts

1 What's the standard or near standard Krell weapon? It's never mentioned in any supplement they turn up in.

2 When societies use muskets, do they come with ball or milieu bullets?
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