Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4957813-20140510034158/@comment-24042984-20140527141957

Pardon me, I misinterpreted what you meant by flail (was thinking of the ball-on-a-chain type). The problem with having a box magazine is that that still won't be enough ammo, and the fact that the rounds will move around in the box which will make the weapon harder to control when swung about, limiting precision and effectiveness. I've only seen one instance of a minigun-type weapon with a box magazine, and that was in the game Metro: Last Light. It was triple-barreled and its rate of fire was quite a bit slower than that of modern miniguns. Even so, ammo was still a problem. With the multiple barrels, the accuracy of gun also drops. I'd think a single-barrel machine gun would be much better at the job, but then again, the spinning flail functionality would be basically have to be scrapped if that were so...