

That is, a 30-06 is not a full size round but is pretty light when you are up against Power armor infantry.

In the context of the fallout world filled with hostiles with heavy body armor, I think caliber inflation would have an impact on these categories. when is a 5.56 M16 or SCAR-L more desirable than a 7.62x51mm cartridge M14 a SCAR-H or HK G3? Anyway, it's a long debate whether you want an AR or a BR- eg. More modern battle rifles are much more controllable, but still are not top of the list if the situation calls for greatest precision in full auto. For a lot of reasons, a full auto M14 is wildly uncontrollable even for an experienced shooter of automatics. Further, putting aside the workbench issue, an M14 is not an assault rifle but a Battle Rifle, because it shoots what in our timeline we would call a full size round. In our timeline against infantry at extreme distances.īranebriar1930 is absolutely correct, and there are a couple other AR definitional requirements I omitted. The Barrett technically is an AMR (anti material rifle), though in Fallout for all practical purposes, it is really anti personnel especially against Power armor equipped infantry. 50 BMG which can be flipped between semi auto bursts and single shot. 50cal Browning ammo and has a devastating ROF, but is nowhere near as economical as a Barrett M82a3 chambered for.

50 AE rounds.įor auto, Audie Murphy's used a Thompson, but his favorite towards the end of WWII was a captured MG42. Are there any that you can flip between modes without going to a workbench? Anyway, the H&K UMP is a close second in this class and can be configured to shoot. But because you can't switch to single or burst during a firefight, if it left the bench with an auto receiver, you could properly only call it a light machine gun. I like the Mark 14 EBR Battle rifle, which is based on the M14 and can be used in all three modes. But in Fallout, you have to go to a workbench to switch an "assault rifle" from auto to burst to single shot semi. Technically, an "assault rifle" must be able to switch between multiple modes of fire.
