35mm AA gun

[Riggatto]

So a 35mm AA gun is a four barreled machine cannon which shoots heavy flak rounds with a high rate of fire a miniscule accuracy. However, like in real life, in order to be used effectively, it must be crewed by 2 men. One man can shoot it as much as he likes, but it takes the second man to turn it.

Just a thought

[Zenark]

.... I actually like this idea. We already have a flak cannon, but a weapon requiring two people to use is awesome.

[Tron]

Good idea yeah... captains would have to choose between 1 engineer and this big old gun, or less firepower but more bullets out or engineers running around...

[Pickle]

I'm not sure what you're thinking of (35mm Oerlikon is twin barrel) but your description makes me think of the  quad QF 2-pounder "pom pom".

It's an interesting design, and one that would be instantly recognisable to a lot of players.  I'm not sure about the two-player requirement for any gun, I can't see how that would work and it's a big change from the current mechanic.  What would each player be doing?  How could an AI perform one role while a player performed tha other?

But as a heavy gun, something similar to four light flak barrels on the same mount, I could see that working.  The animation would be very distinctive.

[Riggatto]

I'm not sure an AI could actually use this, but as for the two man requirement I had thought that one man can move the individual barrels and shoot them (all at once mind you, he can't just take a single barrel off target), while the other man is on the ground and actually pushes or pulls to move the entire turret. Classically, You'd have a third man to load the gun faster but I don't know.