Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20160103032023/@comment-25396609-20160112203039

reloading isn't a problem, a skilled fighter can get a pretty good rate of fire from a single loaded weapon.

Problem is amount of ammo you need to carry on your person.

The M79 uses a 40X46mm grenade, each of which weighs about half a pound, and they need to be quickly accesible. Assuming a reasonably large blast radius which can reduce the number you need to kill the same amount of enemies, you're talking upwards of 50 grenades to be combat effective, 25lbs of ammo, taking up around a cubic meter of space. That is a LOT of ammo for a normal person to carry.

Then again, I can pretty much guarantee I'm overthinking this.