Ship's Locker: Out of the Closet

[Condottiere]

Advanced Combat Rifle - Bill of Materials

If you fully utilize the two ammunition capacity increase options, each of which would maximize that by fifty percent, you could basically double that, in case of intermediate rifle rounds, sixty.

If you use the compact option, you automatically lose a quarter of any capacity, and have to drop one of the increased capacity options, so doesn't seem worth it, within the context of a combat sidearm.

Compact seems more suited for concealed carry.

 

[Condottiere]

Advanced Combat Rifle - Bill of Materials

I don't think it's mentioned, but I would speculate that maintaining a gauss rifle is a lot more finicky, and a lot more efficiently done in a deployed army division, than a Marine platoon.

Which got me looking, as to exactly how many Marines are assigned to Imperium starwarships, per category.

Four hundred tonne patrol corvette with eight.

Twelve hundred tonne Kinunir class colonial cruiser with thirty five.

The Valiant class light thirty kilotonne cruiser has twenty.

The Ghalalk class fifty kilotonne armoured cruiser has two hundred.

And surprisingly, that seems to be that, even on dreadnoughts.

Similarly with sailors, I would think that outside some sniper gauss rifle inclusions, the navy armourers would prefer something that's easier to maintain, that's only rarely utilized.

 

[Condottiere]

Advanced Combat Rifle - Bill of Materials

It seems, once you get to technological level ten, twenty two long rifle is obsolescent.

Except, maybe as a granny gun, or as a Hush Puppy.

Ammunition is certainly cheaper, and you should train with what you intend to use.

It could be configured, that in an emergency, you could use standard five millimetre assault rifle ammunition, though it appears that that, is more expensive.

It's possible that advanced combat rifle rounds would be too powerful for an assault rifle, and that would create a hazard.

So, I'll hazard a guess that the reason the Confederation Navy doesn't have gauss pistols as ceremonial pistols, is because that's the Confederation Army's preferred smallarms platform.