Favourite Fictional Infantry Weapon

[JJP]

Here's a list I came up with after racking my brain for noteable infantry weapons from films, comics, TV programmes etc.

Personally for me it's a toss up between the Blastech E-11 and the Colonial Marine M-41A.

I hate hate hate the Space Marine boltgun for its lack of a shoulder stock.

Sorry if I've omitted your favourite, describe it in the thread.

[IDMR]

Here's a list I came up with after racking my brain for noteable infantry weapons from films, comics, TV programmes etc.

Personally for me it's a toss up between the Blastech E-11 and the Colonial Marine M-41A.

I hate hate hate the Space Marine boltgun for its lack of a shoulder stock.

Sorry if I've omitted your favourite, describe it in the thread.

Bah! Real man use Bolters! You don't need shoulder stock when you are a space marine!

[JJP]

Do real men drop their rifles and leg it around with swords and pistols as well?

[His Divine Shadow]

I chosed the clonetrooper rifle, it was cool and powerfull.

[IDMR]

Do real men drop their rifles and leg it around with swords and pistols as well?

YES! AND they adopt shield and hammer (Storm shield and thunder hammer)!

[Pablo Sanchez]

YES! AND they adopt shield and hammer (Storm shield and thunder hammer)!

And then they get their silly asses kicked by conscripts with proper weapons.

[IDMR]

YES! AND they adopt shield and hammer (Storm shield and thunder hammer)!

And then they get their silly asses kicked by conscripts with proper weapons.

::activates 40K fanatic mode::

YES! I mean NO! I mean... ::gives up::

CRUSADE!!!

[2000AD]

And then they get their silly asses kicked by conscripts with proper weapons.

Obviously this guy has never played 40K or he would know just how hard it is to take down a space marine in tactical dreadnaught armour running at you with a storm shield and thunder hammer. Here's a hint: bring some anti tank weapons!

[Renewed_Valour1]

Ah come on you left out the swiss army knife of science fiction weapons. The f-lance.

[Mr Bean]

Its not Infantry but I have a one
Vash's Gun(Trigun, sure its Anima but who does not love a 50Cal Handgun with secondary fire Nukes Citys)

From 40k
Powerfists!
Jar opener? Why? When I can rip apart Steel Doors!

From SW
The Blastech is nice but I prefer Bobba Fett's Assult Rifle

[Grand Admiral Thrawn]

Heh, almost all SW weapons are modified real guns.




DLT-19. Han Solo as a Stormie had one.

[Pablo Sanchez]

DLT-19. Han Solo as a Stormie had one.

That's a cut down MG34 in real life.

I've sussed most of the weapons used as props in SW, but I still can't figure out the basis for the E-WEB.

As for 40K Space Marines, I never much liked the idea of super-duper warriors in invincible power armor who are so cool that they defy all limits of coolness. The sad fact is that weaponry advances as quickly as armor; the Space Marine invincibility, and the effectiveness of melee combat are both as much forced gameplay elements as Mech supremacy in Battletech.

[Morat]

My favorite is the Force Lance.

[IDMR]

DLT-19. Han Solo as a Stormie had one.

That's a cut down MG34 in real life.

I've sussed most of the weapons used as props in SW, but I still can't figure out the basis for the E-WEB.

As for 40K Space Marines, I never much liked the idea of super-duper warriors in invincible power armor who are so cool that they defy all limits of coolness. The sad fact is that weaponry advances as quickly as armor; the Space Marine invincibility, and the effectiveness of melee combat are both as much forced gameplay elements as Mech supremacy in Battletech.

It is. Well, that and the fact that the IoM has been in decay for Millennia.

[David]

That would be the HVM or hyper velocity missile from the book In Death Ground.

[CmdrWilkens]

The best Fictional Infantry Weapon is a Mobile Infantryman, just the person. They are lethal and effective with everything from hands to H-bombs.

[A Big Flying Fish]

Terminator Lightning Claws or a Chain Fist from 40K. Why use a powerfist when you can make human sushi out of anything within 10ft of you, or have the universes biggest and loudest atutomatic can opener

[General G]

CRUSADE!!!

Let me go get my lasgun.

[Mr Bean]

Simple Big Fly Fish
They look like gloves riight?
Its the best way to assert your dominace over people in RL! (Best RL weapon as you can pass it off as just you being veeery strong)

Besides you can wear powerfists around Town!
Self to high? Why cut it down when you can rip it down!
Stuck door?
Not anymore!
Car in your spot?
Just lean it up aginst a tree and out of everyones way!

It has soo many uses!

[Vendetta]

Smartgun anyone?

No?

*feels lonely*

(but Lightning Claws are cool...)

[IDMR]

Smartgun anyone?

No?

*feels lonely*

(but Lightning Claws are cool...)

From 'shadejogging', right?

I played the sega game, if you are wondering how I came across it.

[JJP]

Ah, sorry, forgot Phased Plasma rifles from Terminator.

I don't know what a force lance is, or what series it comes from. ANybody care to explain?

[consequences]

From John barnes timeline wars trilogy, the SHAKK. A mach 10 homing projectile, that can fire off of a remote sight, and given about three feet of clearance can do a 180 past you to track in on the target, fifth element style. Upon hitting a human being, the round will automatically travel up to the brain, and then expend its remaining energy rattling around inside the victim's skull, completely liquefying the brain. If targeted on a weapon, it will spiral down the barrel, ripping it apart, before slamming back through the firing chamber, power pack, whatever, usually taking off the holder's hand. Full auto capability 2000 round ammunition capacity, can reassemble scrap material into additional ammo if all of the proper elements are all present.
The only real weakness is that it homes in on precisely what is in the sights at the time the trigger is pulled, so full auto firefight on a crowded city street is a BAD idea.

[Patrick Ogaard]

Ah, sorry, forgot Phased Plasma rifles from Terminator.

I don't know what a force lance is, or what series it comes from. ANybody care to explain?

The force lance comes from Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda.

The force lance is a short cylinder that is the standard personal weapon of Galactic Commonwealth military personnel, such as the Lancers, the Galactic Commonwealth equivalent of marines. A spiffy little polyvalent Swiss Army knife of a weapon, it can: deploy into a full-size quarterstaff; deliver stunning electrical charges with a touch; electromagnetically launch effectors (AKA: smart bullets) as antipersonnel or anti-artillery rounds, including explosive options; deliver a ranged plasma beam that can be used as a weapon or as a cutting tool; electronically lock out unauthorized users;and can be set to explode as a plasma grenade as a last-ditch option. All of the options are usable regardless of whether the weapon is retracted to sidearm size or extended to quarterstaff size.

[Morat]

Don't forget that the Force Lance can also intercept hypersonic gauss gun rounds. That's quite a bit different than intercepting artillary.

BTW, that's Systems Commonwealth. Galactic Commonwealth would be a misnomer anyway, since they span six galaxies...