Flame stacks

[Spud Nick]

If you put greased rounds in a flamethrower will it increase the speed at witch the fire stacks? (Will it put 8 charges on a gun faster)

[Moo]

You could test whether it makes the gun fire quicker, by timing how long it takes to empty the gun with and without the greased rounds in a practice game. If it does make it quicker, then presumably yes, the fire would also stack quicker.

[Captain Smollett]

From my understanding, greased rounds would in fact increase the speed by which fire stacks on components since it increases the particles per second and each particle carries a % probability of adding a fire stack.

This does however come at a significant disadvantage though since the already short range of the flamethrower would be reduced by 20% do to the loss of projectile speed.

Lesmok has often been the favored round for this reason since you effectively get a 60% boost to flame range.

[HamsterIV]

On the rare occurrence I take a flamethrower into battle, I ask the gunner who mans it to take lesmok for long range and greased for shot. Likewise if I am asked to man a flamethrower as an engineer I take lesmok unless I trust the captain to get within spitting distance.

[Coldcurse]

would greased rounds in a flamethrower cause more chance of catching things on fire?

[N-Sunderland]

It effectively would.