21. "RE: On the Tech of Battle"
In response to message #19
>>It still, twenty years later, amuses me that the single most dangerous >>thing to a mech that you can have inside said mech isn't a load >>of incendiary devices, or high-caliber artillery shells, or even the >>goddamn fusion reactor. >> >>It's a single ton of MG ammo. > >Just because of what they're expected to be effective against, and the >fact that they are as effective against it as a single >short-range missile,
That depends on what version of the rules is in play, some of them had MGs do extra damage against infantry platoons, (killing 2d6 IIRC).