Japan has some iconic weapons that have not yet appeared on the game that can be used in low BR.
Giving them high-BR weapons is great, but let’s also give them more fun in low BR!
A bolt-action gun used in low BR, with multiple options, would definitely be fun!
Type 18 Murata rifle
This is an improved version of the type 13 Murata rifle first adopted by the Japanese Army.
The caliber is 11mm, there is no magazine, and the load is single shot with one round per chamber.
It is too challenging a gun, so it may be more suitable for gold order than for inclusion in the technology tree.
Type 22 Murata carbine
The bayonet latch has been omitted and the length of the gun has been shortened for easier handling.
Morita assault rifle
This is a standard service rifle used in the Battle of Klendathu. It is a fully automatic firearm with a rate of fire of 1200 rounds per minute and uses the powerful 7.62x51mm round. It has the power to kill space insects with their tough outer shells, but the space insects continue to rampage until their nerve centers are destroyed, resulting in heavy casualties for the mobile infantry sent to the planet Klendathu. But if you want to destroy an American soldier, one of these will suffice.
The Japanese also have a number of other weapons that can be used in BR2-3, but we will leave that for another time.
May the Japanese Army in low BR be more substantial.
You can go as fast as a bolt action if you do this simple trick:
Of course, it is only three bullets, but it is certainly doable if you are in the trolling business. Not to mention, we have an entire nation that put up a decent fight before getting gassed. With “400,000 rifles of every type”, including the Martini-Henry, they went one-on-one with the Italians. Ethiopia would be a great sub-faction for BR 1-2 guns.
Lightweight and rugged, the M41A is constructed largely from ultra-light alloy precision metal stampings, with a titanium aluminide alloy outer casing and high-impact, temperature resistant plastics for many of its internal parts.[1] The M41A is fully sealed against corrosion, dirt and moisture and its electronics are hardened against TREE and background radiation, making it perfectly usable even in a vacuum.[7] By itself the rifle weighs only 3.2 kg, although this increases to 4.9 kg when including the sling and fully-loaded magazine, and is built around a 24.7 cm long barrel.[2]
The M41A uses an electronic pulse action to fire, controlled directly from the trigger and powered by a battery located in the carry handle.[8] The internal mechanism, including the rotating breech, is mounted on free-floating rails within a carbon-fiber jacket and the entire assembly is recoil dampened to reduce the effects of muzzle climb during burst and fully-automatic fire.[1] Even so, the weapon’s recoil is fairly significant.[9] A thumb selector allows the firer to switch between selective, four-round burst or fully automatic firing modes.[1] A manual charging handle on the right hand side of the receiver allows the user to check for rounds in the chamber or clear the breech in the event of a stoppage. The standard M41A ammunition magazine stores 99 rounds in a ‘U’ bend conveyor. Rounds are fed mechanically into the weapon’s rotating breech.[1] While the magazine weighs 1.5 kg when fully loaded,[2] standard practice is to only fill it to 95% capacity (95 rounds) to prevent jamming.[1]
The M41A generally mounts the underbarrel U1 Grenade Launcher,[10] comprising a barrel, breech and four-round internal magazine, fired using a trigger just in front of the rifle magazine, the housing for which doubles as a grip during grenade firing. While this launcher was integral to initial versions of the rifle, later models (specifically the M41A MK2 and the later M41A2) featured a modular system that allowed the launcher to be swapped out for a different unit at the user’s discretion.[11] Grenades must be hand-loaded into the launcher’s four-round magazine, which are then loaded into the breech and primed to fire from a pump action.[1]
That gun is a variation of the M1A1thompson, so it is located in BR3 at a minimum.
However, the colonial marines will get a future-spec Smart MG42. This gun has no problem with broken bipods and can be perfectly implemented in DF.
Get 'em!
