Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-15049228-20131004024906

Okay, this has been on my mind for a while, so I'm just going to start it.

How do you guys think that wars could possibly be fought on Vytal?

For one, I assume that Dust is able to be used as a equivalent ingredient as gunpower, and considering several of the firearms seen throughout the series, it is fact that Vytal does in fact have Firearms, utilizing Fully Automatic, Semi Automatic, and Bolt Action chambers. As such, we can assume that Vytal do have armies due to their constant threat from the Grimm, or even each other. They couldn't possibly relie solely on Hunters for most everything and Police for small time matters. Standard issue rifles do seem to be in service, as both Episode One, the Yellow Trailer, and Black Trailer feature simple full auto guns, along with heavier weaponry, these being an unidentified Assualt Rifle, what seems to be an M1 Thompson, Hand mounted Gatiling Guns, and Dust based Laser Cannons. Starting with the unidentified rifle, it almost seems like possibly a G36, really stretching it there, but it seems to be standard issue, seeing as there are no fancy gizmos or anything. Can't find the magzine either. It's got a fairly decent Rate Of Fire, seeing the amount it shot, but seems slower than most modern assualt rifles. The Thompson in the Yellow Trailer definetly screams mafia/gang. After all, the American Gangsters in the early 1900's did use it a rather lot. Rate of Fire also seems slower than our world's comparison, Possibly due to clip inefficiency? Meaning the Clip wasn't really deveopled, meaning that they can't really feed bullets into the gun quickly. As for the Androids in the Black Trailer, their gatiling guns, while impressive seeing how they fit them on human sized hands, also seem to be lacking in the ROF department. But another thing I've tried to figure out is ammunition in the series as a whole. I'll do something about the unique weapons of our Main Cast, but later. Seeing how Vytal seems to have become more reliant on dust, instead of sheer human ingenuity, that means that they wouldn't have needed to change bullet penatration, thickness, speed, etc. Just make the casing bigger, add more dust, and you're fine. I highly doubt that Vytal would have spent a lot of time on creating hundreads of different calibers, but the Unidentified Assualt Rifle could be simply using 5.56X33 mm bullets, while the Thompson would use .45 Cal Rounds, and the Gatling Guns using 7.62X55 mm Rounds. Or maybe ammunition is just all the same, just different dust is used for gunpowder in each differing bullet. Who knows?

Now we get to something more intresting. The Spider Droid.

The Spider Droid seems like a Mech Walker, or possibly like mobile Artillery. It's attacks, utilzing it's cannons and body, make it formidable. It's armor, deflecting bullets like nothing, would make it perfect for taking on hard hitting vechicles, such as Tanks, Helicopters, maybe even Airships. It could even make a great terroist attack. Imagine, a dozen Spider Droids ripping Downtown Vale apart. It's cannons seem to be similar to 55mm Explosive Rounds, only using explosians of dust rather than shrapnel and such. When the four cannons are formed, it's charged beam is shown being able to rip through a very thick steel Train wall with ease. Therefore, using the charged beam, you could tear a hole through heavy vechicles, or stop pursuers through the quick collapsing of a bridge with the attack, or decimate a platoon of troops, etc. It's separated Cannons would work for Anti Infantry as well. Using several of these Droids, you could, at long range, decimate an army, especially so if you can redirect the cannons to fire in an arc. Another possibility I thought about was how high of a fall can a Spider Droid survive without damage? If from skydiving heights, then you could drop like ODST pods into hot zones. They'd make great rapid response reinforcements. It again, seems like powerful, very mobile artillery.

Later we explore our Main Cast's Weapons, and see how effective they really are. 