U.S. Army M249 gunner

U.S. Army

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M249 SAW	36	2	4

Although the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon is superseded in front-line Army service by the newer M250, the SAW remains a mainstay of many units' firepower down to the team level.

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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