Gun barrels on the British troops

[Greg Smith]

A friend has expressed his disappointment to me that the kneeling British soldier does not appear to have a barrel on his gun. We looked in store today and it appears to be wide spread. Is there a reason for this?

 

[Hiromoon]

Barrels were in short supply for British Infantry in the year 2017...

 

[captainsmirk]

The kneeling trooper is the one with the UGL, the addition of the grenade launcher means that significantly less of the barrel is visible.

See below...


Nick

 

[Greg Smith]

Makes sense. Thanks.

 

[Hiromoon]

Aww.....spoilsport....

 

[captainsmirk]

Well the British infantry have never had a lack of barrels...

A lack of complete rifles maybe, but never barrels. :lol:


Nick

 

[Hiromoon]

Drat...

 

[captainsmirk]

Thou shalt always have at least one barrel for each rifle...

But thou shalt not necessarily always have at most one rifle for each soldier...


Nick

 

[Paladin]

Thou shalt always have at least one barrel for each rifle...

But thou shalt not necessarily always have at most one rifle for each soldier...


Nick

Somebody has to carry the ammo.

 

[Rabidchild]

You guys are thinking of my Soviet army for Flames of War. "The first man takes the rifle. The second man takes the ammunition. If the first man should fall, the second man picks up the rifle and shoots."

 

[Mr Evil]

british army do indeed have barrels, and they have amunition and very good gun sights, its just the rest of the rifle isnt always working or available.

this is why we are now forming the pea shooter brigade

 

[captainsmirk]

You guys are thinking of my Soviet army for Flames of War. "The first man takes the rifle. The second man takes the ammunition. If the first man should fall, the second man picks up the rifle and shoots."

Thats stupid, hows the first guy going to shoot if he has no ammunition...

Oh wait you don't say anything about the first guy having to shoot...

So therefore wouldn't it actually make more sense for you to give both the rifle and the ammunition to the second guy who shoots from behind the first guy who just gets used as a human shield...



(presumably the first guy also gets some ammunition, probably in the rifle, going by the scene in enemy at the gates...)


Nick

 

[saint]

Thanks for the prompt response, but I feel that you if you compare the kneeling miniature with the photograph supplied, the proportions are still wrong.

It still looks too truncated to me.

 

[Old Bear]

The proportions of the UGL are as accurate as we can assess based on the available photographs of the weapon.

 

[DM]

british army do indeed have barrels, and they have amunition and very good gun sights, its just the rest of the rifle isnt always working or available.

You are out of date Mr. Evil. The SA80A2 is a very different weapon from its admittedly crap predecessor

 

[britneyfan97]

It looks fine to me. But when first looking at the model, I thought it was broken too. Then thought it looked like a Tau weapon. :lol:

 

[Locutus9956]

british army do indeed have barrels, and they have amunition and very good gun sights, its just the rest of the rifle isnt always working or available.

You are out of date Mr. Evil. The SA80A2 is a very different weapon from its admittedly crap predecessor

That would be the L85A2 technically. SA-80 is just the project name for a whole family of guns, including the as noted, rather poo L85A1. The A2 is a tad on the heavy side but can shoot the fleas of a dogs back at 500 yards (appologies for grauitous Doc Brown quote )