Ukrainian M249 gunner

AFU

Name
M249 SAW	36	2	4

The Belgian-designed M249 light machine gun, widely in use across NATO forces under a variety of names, has found a home, too, in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The M249 is typically attended by an assistant gunner with a spare barrel and extra ammunition, although for the purposes of Down Range, the assistant gunner will usually serve as an additional rifleman.

Players who wish to represent the joys and despairs of machine gunnery more accurately may house-rule that the M249 gunner, and his brethren with heavier automatic weapons, will require a barrel change/reload action from an adjacent assistant gunner with every critical failure of an attack.

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