Statting 4e Weapons & Vehicles

[Ursus Maior]

Originally Posted by Heffe

Maybe PCs firing the MG3 have to worry about additional heat build up on it due to the higher firing rate, and therefore are trained to fire it in shorter bursts?

We trained to do exactly that, 3-6 shots is no problem. With a bit of training, you can even pull of "single shot bursts", but you have to yank the trigger in a certain way to make it just fire once, it reduces accuracy somewhat. All in all, it's not practical for combat and more of a "range trick shot" (and a poor one at that).

But effectively firing only 1 Ammo Die can be done with a MG3, no problem.