Quick, anon! The world is going into chaos!
You'll have infinite ammo, but can only pick one gun!
What gun do you pick?
>inb4 dora
>>32426649
Ar-10 with giggle switch.
>>32426649
Ak74
>>32426649
Are we limited to hand-held weaponry?
Deagle brand Deagle
>>32426921
nope
>>32426649
Does infinite ammo mean I have an unlimited amount of the guns clipazines or I never have to reload it? If the latter
>>32426948
infinite mags too then
.357 SIG full auto 1911.
Laugh all you want, but this, loaded with +p hollow points is the weapon I shoot best
Infinite ammo + a rate of fire of 1,200.
Is the gun indestructible ? or do i expect it to melt a minute later.
This beautiful thing
>>32426986
If I ever die to one of those, tell everyone I was raped to death by a horse.
Less embarrassing that way.
MG-3
love me some 12.7x108
>>32426649
What else?
<3
>>32426941
>>32426649
>Infinite ammo
>Nope
An armed rigid dirigible, preferably interwar. Helium Hindenburg ideally.
>Comfy deisel/decopunk
>Feel justified calling myself Captain
>Continued flying
>Live in the air
>Out of reach from filthy raiders
>Launch and land smaller aircraft by trapeze
>Travel the world observing post apocalyptic cultures and sampling their finest cuisine
>Sleepily guide your massive skydildo by the stars, zoning out on the burning torches of rebuilding civilizations below.
>Fish the ocean from low hover
>Gradually assemble a crew from people you meet during your travels until your airship bustles with life
>Make caps or whatever as the first post apocalyptic transworld airline
>Use new apocalypse cash to buy the most aesthetic and enginuitive pipe guns/ supplies to design and build aircraft/whatever the fuck
>Have my own dawn of aviation and draw the golden age on for eternity
>Paint "A Magical Place" on the side
>Somewhere below here and there a surviving /k/ommando understands
>It's pretty fucking magical even without context
If impact or explosion related apocalypse
>Beautiful dusty sunsets over the ocean
Else
>Beautiful regular sunsets over the ocean
Neat.
>>32428252
This.
>>32428470
Gonna be honest, I'd play the shit out of a post-apocalyptic game where you command a dirigible and get to explore a vast, varied wasteland, with technology levels varying from the early pioneer days to ~WWI levels of manufacturing for some of the larger wasteland settlements.
That said, even if you used pumps and high pressure tanks to recover/store helium instead of venting it to descend, you'd still have real trouble finding enough of it to keep the damn thing flying for more than a couple of years. It does leak out through the skin of the gasbags.
Hydrogen is a better sustainable option, but obviously not ideal if you've got raiders shooting flaming arrows up at your airship - fire suppression systems would be a must, maybe something that taps into the water ballast tanks.
As for fuel, it might be possible to make a thin solar fabric for the outer skin and run the whole thing on electricity, provided the zeppelin was produced before whatever apocalypse happened to wreck the world.
>>32428577
God yes, so would I. Sadly no such thing, and I haven't quite the background to try to make it real. I think I will serialized writefag it though, provided I don't get too lazy. Check the threads for it in the near future.
Won't be starting with an airship; recognize it by a nugget wielding faggot in the midwest somewhere
>>32428752
Name the airship Thunderchild.
I would probably take my PTR-91. The rollers might be an issue after a few years. The most logical choice would be an AR-15 since parts would be everywhere.
>>32428470
That made me tear up.
I've had similar fantasies with a decked out luxury PBY-5 Catalina.
>>32428577
I'd write the shit out of a story like this. I'm an excellent writer but lately I've lacked the motivation to do much of anything, unfortunately.
>>32426649
Lewis gun.
>>32429423
A future where the US managed to perfect the lighter-than-air carrier concept would be pretty cool, maybe based on the concept of the Akron, only much, much larger and capable.
Internal hangars for a dozen aircraft, a couple of helipads and AA batteries on top, some heavy cannons on the underneath, a bomb bay or two...
Imagine that as the main carrier, with some smaller zeppelin support craft for added AA and ground defense, a couple of mini-carriers with the capacity for a couple of aircraft, and maybe one or two high altitude observation zeppelins that have pressurized cabins - if the other zeppelins need to ascend that high, the crew could be issues oxygen masks and canisters.
Have the zeppelins be powered by solar-electric and the aircraft from artificially made fuel (recycling crew waste and/or combining with hydrogen from sea water), it'd be like a miniature flying city.
>>32428470
You would run out of helium in a year of so. Hydrogen you could make. You would need a good weather service and safe hanger. Sooner or later a weather effect would kill you without advance notice. One of the biggest killers of LTAs were weather effects.
>>32429610
>You would need a good weather service and safe hanger.
Keep in mind that radar has advanced 80 years since rigid airships were popular, bad weather can be spotted from hundreds of miles away now, so you'd have plenty of time to ascend to a safe height or evade the bad weather.
Even short-range observation aircraft could serve as an advanced warning method.
No ascend to safe height with Airships. It's complicated but going to high will easily exhaust your gas cells. Then you crash to ground. Updrafts and down drafts clobbered a lot of airships. Currently the best thought with a modern airship is to outrun the storm or find a hanger. A storm front hundreds of miles wide removes the outrun plan. In a post apocalypse world repairs and fuel could be a issue.
>>32429512
I'd probably want to keep it more simple than that. I like quality worldbuilding but I don't usually go into as much detail. I leave plenty of plotholes just for the sake of artistic license.
But like I said, no motivation. These days I go to work, come home, browse the interwebs, play with the guns every weekend, and repeat. Even if I had the motivation I'd be doing better things; going to the gym, going back to school, etc.
>>32426649
My erection cannot possibly be contained
>>32430069
>>32426649
THE MADMAN
>>32429402
Airship anon here.
Oh hey anon, I wrote the /k/umfy /k/atalina and dc-3 greentexts too. Good to see you again
AA12, cause I know full well that I won't be able to, neither need to haul an overweight LMG when other people are running around with those too.
>>32429006
>>32428752
>>32428470
>>32429610
Helium anon is right. I'll go hydrogen for my writefaggotry
>>32426649
A m2 Carbine
My wasr
>>32429819
>No ascend to safe height with Airships
Old German inter-war Zeppelins were capable of flying as high as 20,000 ft, one going as high as 26,000 ft in an emergency, which is about as high as the average thunderstorm can form.
With a pressurized cabin and either hydrogen gas cells (which can be vented to reduce the internal pressure) or a recovery pump for the helium (again, reducing gas cell pressure), you can prevent overpressure up to much higher altitudes.
There's been US military trials of extreme high altitude blimps that have already reached 32,000 ft - if a military spent half as much R&D funding on a zeppelin as they did a new fighter, they could reliably hit even higher altitudes than what Germans were doing in the goddamn 1920s.
So it's definitely possible to ascend above bad weather, but no one has really felt the need to invest in such a project.
>>32430813
In practice, hydrogen is a far superior lifting gas simply because it's so damn easy to get more of it - the weight of, for example, exhaust gas water recovery systems and helium pumping/storage systems, along with the lesser lifting capacity (about 88% of what hydrogen can lift), means hydrogen is a good choice for a long-term vehicle.
Just as an example, the Hindenburg would never have gotten off the ground if it used helium instead of hydrogen.
How has no one claimed the minigun yet?
>>32431859
Well, have fun being bum rushed by raiders.
>>32431894
Heavy+heating issues
>>32426649
>You'll have infinite ammo, but can only pick one gun
How has no one posted this yet?
>suppressed
>decent range
>very nice stoppan powah
>not a big heavy LMG
>infinite ammo means no difficulty in finding 9x39mm
>>32430069
>No Dora
Fuck you, OP. You never said no Gustav!
>>32431774
>Just as an example, the Hindenburg would never have gotten off the ground if it used helium instead of hydrogen.
Uh, nooo. Not true at all. The Hindenburg was designed for helium. It was due to weird regulatory stuff that they were forced to use hydrogen for the US flight.
>>32426649
AK-105.
>>32432134
>>32428470
I'd shoot you down.
>>32426910
This
>>32432305
Ah, my bad, I misread the article I was browsing - it never would have made the flight across the South Atlantic with helium, as it couldn't have carried enough fuel to make the trip.
Modernized pkm variant with an optic
Backpack feed chute
>>32426649
Well
>>32426649
>>32431894
assuming you get infinite durability with the infinite ammo
>>32432341
It really didn't help that the doping painted into the skin was an accidentally layered thermite.
I'll take this with a side of bacon...
>>32426649
"Whatever happens,
We have got
The Maxim gun
And they have not"