Talk:Weapon/@comment-27144409-20180819201546/@comment-27144409-20180819231406

We most certainly can.

Pretty much any other grenade type would have been better. A flash bang or a gas would disorient them, incendiaries, frags, and concussion grenades would all be nice and lethal, and the SDC guards were already past the point of using lethal weaponry. If the SDC guards had thermal goggles, or were using the brief distraction to close the already short distance, like video game shotgun users, or set up heavy weapons, that could kind of make sense.

Instead they ruin their own advantage of having automatics in a contained space with only one direction to focus on. That is pretty much the ideal scenario for SAW and machine gun operators. The only things that would make it better are firing at way more targets, that are individually weaker, from an armored position.

But no, let's prevent ourselves from being able to fire the first shot, and keep them suppressed. If the guard who threw that grenade lived, he deserves to be fired! If they kept the bull suppressed, they probably could have flanked them and gone to town.