Military Equipment Admiration Thread

So you can basically take two steps back and be out of range?

Bollocks is it. Your right about them being different weapon systems but thats about all you've got right. Valkyrie's everything you could want from an infantry weapon apart from being uncomfortable as all fuck and taking hours to fucking clean. But until they come out with a shorter lighter carbine version the M8s here to stay. The Valkyrie's your general use weapon, the M8's better for urban and ship based combat and the weapon you wanna give your mech inf. Its cheaper and easier to maintain, its got a shit ton of mod kits for it that are a piece of piss to attach and its native optics blow the Valkyrie's out the fuckin water.

Until the Alliance gets a crapload of cash they don't have the M8s here to stay.


It's only cheap until you have to swap out all the grips, charging handles and the stock to work with human hands and shoulders and either completely recalibrate the optics to work with human eyes or swap out all the rails so they take human optics. Oh and the targeting computer has to be reloaded with human software unless you like your telemetry in turian. Your either paying for that with cash or manhours.


I prefer the Armax Crossfire the Hierarchy license of the M15. Higher muzzle velocity, higher calibre slugs, better optics and a fire selector. Still as lightweight so you can use the short barrel model as a carbine on full auto if you have to. Heat sink capacitys a bit shit but I can live with that if I bring enough spares. Has the same problem as the Phaeston in that you have to retool it for humans. It's fucking pricey and they don't sell it outside the Hierarchy either so a merc like me is never gonna own one.

Well unless I kill a turian and take one I guess but no ones dumb enough to hire the Suns against the fuckin Hierarchy. Not exactly a sound investment.


I want to find whoever taught you weapon safety and shoot them in the fucking nads for being an incompetent fucking moron.


Or maybe you should just stay away from guns altogether. 30 to 60 metres maybe, in stock congif. Swap out the choke slap on a folding stock and dial back the spread and you could probably hit fairly reliably out to 100m. But 3 to 6? lol if a CQ weapon couldn't hit a target the other side of a room any bigger than a pub lavvie it wouldn't be worth its weight in parts love.

I had an Argus during the war, you know, the law enforcement AR? I liked it a lot, put on new grips, bipod, had an engineer tweak in full-auto to go with the semi and burst. Good for poor man's LSW. I hope it served its next owner well after I had to relinguish it due to being transferred for wound treatment.

^^ Buddy, this weapon was specially modified for close-ranged conflict. I'm a biotic, it worked out!

Cerberus's Harrier variation of the Mattock. Its heat production is a little higher than ideal, but in every other respect it is a truly a beautiful weapon. Not the easiest weapon to get a hold of, but well worth it.

The Scoripion is a fun little gun to have in your arsenal, particularly when modified to fire flash-bangs.

I've also had a few nice experiences with the Alliance's newest N7 sniper rifle, the Valiant. Powerful, accurate, and almost recoilless. While it's not ideal for anti-armor work, the relatively low heat production and high rate of fire make it good for taking out large numbers of infantry targets.

The Graal. Dear christ I love this fucking gun. It's a bloody flechette gun on crack. Armor? This thing doesn't give two shites about armor, just punches right through and more often than not out the other side too. For a backup weapon the Typhoon SMG is decent, but I'm not a big fan of SMGs.

Mannnn, hearing about all this makes me hate the fact I'm driving a desk nowadays even more. I know I was already getting inched away from the front line more and more as I climbed the ranks, but still! At least when I was an infantry officer I was closer to the action and still had a reason to carry around a rifle!

Sigh...

I'm a big fan of the Incisor.

Mine was a gift from...someone special.

Um, I also ought to mention the SGS 2-33 Sorcerer sniper rifle, as my favourite historical piece. I inherited my grandfather's and yes, it's still in operational condition.

I got my hands on one. During the Siege of Ottawa, a Cerberus Cell was hiding out in the East end of the city, laying low. When out on patrol, my squad ended up engaging them near one of our motor pools on St. Laurent Blvd. We managed to liberate said Harrier, two Hornets, and a M-358 Talon from them.

That being said, I'd still go with the Mk28. The Harrier's heat production ate through thermal clips like a MG42 eats through ammo belts.

Going to agree about the Harrier, I don't know what Cerberus' gunsmiths were on when they made it but I can say it's impressive. Still have my old mattock as well, but that's collecting dust inside it's case for the time being. I have quite a few good things to say about the eviscerator too, that shotgun is a nice piece of work, although I'm currently trying to get the parts to convert it into a wraith variant considering what I've heard of it.

No love for the phalanx?
I love that gun. The grip especially, which seems an odd thing to focus on, but I just find it hugs my palm a lot better than some heavy pistols. And the stopping power can't be ignored. It'll go through most light shields with ease, and will drop even assault shelds with a few shots.
Not sure about the laser sight personally, but you can easily disable it if you don't like it. There's also a UV-output upgrade which I've fitted to mine, but then you need either the corrisponding visor upgrade or cybernetic eyes capable of seeing in that spectrum.

As for the harrier, it's pretty good. Up until I got hold of one nothing could seperate me from my Avenger, but now I'm a convert.

My go to rifle is a Volkov by Rosenkov. Picked it up on a recommendation after my last rifle got melted in half by thresher acid. It's a few years old, got it during that time when absolutely everything looked the same, there were only two different looks for the majority of the choices then. Anything that looked different was either older tech, cost a fortune, or was some POS that only looked nice.

The Volkov ain't the top of the line sniper on the market, but it does me good. Had to swap out the grip since it's designed for a human hand, but after that and a few other mods on the internals over the years, it does what I need it to do.

Picked up my armor from the same manufacturer a year ago, Titan suit, it's been working pretty good so far. Ain't as good against the elements as my old Survivor suit from Devlon, but it's much better on the combat front with stronger shields and plates.

Alternate weapon is a Vindicator from ERCS. Picked it up during a bounty from some idiot with more money than sense. I think the gun's worth more than they paid me for that job, heheheh. Packs a punch and keeps a tight shot grouping on the burst. Used to be grey, but like all my other equipment, I repaint things for my environment, so it's several shades of brown and green now.

Ah, the Volkov was a nice gun. I carried one of the early models back when I was with the Alliance. Very reliable.

SKR-532 battle rifle, batarian make. My personal favorite rifle, though it's not an easy one to use. For one, the recoil is heavy, though if you fix up the inertial compensation system properly it's not like [translation error: do you mean 'wrestling a greased pig'?]. It's also a bit on the large and heavy side (which helps with the recoil a bit). The plus side? It's powerful, accurate, and tough as nails.

For armor, I'm still using an Armax Predator M VII. It's a tough suit.

One gun got me through the reaper war, through any heavy operations and my favourite on the range and that's the M-96 Mattock assault rifle. Older then me, but accurate, high stopping power and semi auto, meaning a cop like me doesn't waste thousands of thermal clips. Also, easy in Kenya to get spare parts, at least for the pre mass effect tech parts.

Turning this back from the gun-related stuff, I present you the tool the heroes of the 5th Lance of the 8th mech. Infantry battalion during the evacuation of Kassel. The Fafnir walker, an armored platform designed for combat within population centers.

About 12 of these held the line... well circle around the Whilhelmshöhe Station against several destroyers, where the trains were used to evacuate a good fraction of the cities people. Thier crews abandoned them (those that weren't blown apart earlier) to board the last trains, but the some of these were later salvaged by resistance fighter who stayed behind.

I don't about the specs or how successful those were in general, but the survivors of the 5th lance are minor celebrities in the town.

I had the fortune to find one of these myself.

Cerberus might've been the second most vile group around (second to the Reapers themselves, obviously), but damn, did they know guns.

Alright, it's taking a lot of my willpower to not even bring up any insults, but how the hell does a civilian have what could essentially referred to as a handheld shotgun on the citadel? You'd think that C-Sec would have a buyback program for salvaged cerberus weapons after the war...

Well, I got to keep mine because I was C-Sec at the time.

Mameluke Class Cruiser, beut of a ship. Not much for armor, but brilliant acceleration. And hey, with Thanix around, who needs armor anyways? Once your shields go down your armor isn't going to amount to xemna shit. Acceleration and stopping power is what you need, and the Mameluke's got both in spades. Give it a year or two and they'll up Cyclonics to the point where I can mount one on this baby to go with the Thanix.

Then of course there's the Crone, which had an utter pain of a learning curve, even for an interceptor, but was absolutely worth learning to fly. It's the Hag's successor, and that shows.