Poll: Weapons List: Quelling a Robot Uprising

[RaNDM G]

Hello again,
Thanks to the overwhelmingly positive response to the previous post (out of the 31 who voted on the poll, only 6 people hated or didn?t care for it), I decided to continue on with the series of lists. This time, I?ve decided to work on what you would need for stopping the robot menace from terrorizing your hometown. Luckily, unlike the previous topic, this list works well for those who prefer using the bigger guns over those Godforsaken carbines everyone seems to hate.

-- Weapons --
Guns:
- Thompson M1928A1 or M60
If you?ve ever tried shooting a car, you would know that it would take several rounds to mess up an engine, carburetor, or gas tank beyond the point of repair. It?s the same deal with robots, although there isn?t going to be a doubt in my mind that the rinky-dink, semiautomatic weapons you kept during the zombie outbreak will be able to down a sentient machine before it tears you in half. That?s why you?re going to need a gun that would dispense plenty of rounds in a short amount of time.

The Thompson M1928 is the better choice for downing your average, run-of-the-mill robot, though finding a weapon like this in full-auto is near impossible in today?s world. Luckily, thanks to a few simple (albeit expensive and illegal) modifications, one could easily take the semiautomatic M1927A5 (available through special order) and turn it into a fully-automatic, exoskeleton chewing monster. The only downside I could find to this weapon would be investing in the hundreds of rounds which you?ll be constantly firing during your robot exterminating career.

But in the worst-case scenario that pits you against, of all things, a two-story tall mecha, you?re going to need a little bit more firepower if you?re ever going to hope to get out of this scrape alive. This is where the M60 comes in. When a whole platoon?s worth of Ground HK Tanks drop in from the skies, the military absolutely cannot and will not ignore such a dangerous threat and would no doubt send every troop they have to take that thing down. And someone?s going to end up dropping one of these sooner or later. Thanks to its armor-piercing capabilities, the M60 would be able to make mincemeat out of anything that stands in its path of destruction. Unfortunately, fighting mechs will take a collective effort to down due to their immense size, but a party consisting of four or five people operating M60s and a rocket launcher would be able to drop that giant monstrosity in under twenty seconds if all goes according to plan.

EDIT: Thanks to APPCRASH for pointing out that I had confused the M60 with the M249 SAW. Mistakes happen when writing something this long, so I'm glad to take any advice I could get to make sure everything's alright.

Explosives:
- Milkor MGL-140 or RPG-7
As with the M60, the military is bound to drop one of these items for your use. They work especially well when able to penetrate the machine?s interior and wreak havoc on the internal wiring. However, they should only be reserved for dealing with mechs or large clusters of enemies.

- IEDs
Unlike the M60 and MGL, you don?t have to wait for military personnel to conveniently ?let go? of these items for you. You could make them yourself, though doing so will pose a dangerous threat to you and the members of your household. It should only be done if the machines become too tough to handle by mere firepower alone. Still, it doesn?t hurt to lay a few explosive traps to impede the enemy?s progress.

- IEMPs
Probably the most effective weapon in any mech slayer?s arsenal, an Improvised Electromagnetic Pulse Charge is effective in short circuiting the robot?s CPU, rendering them immobile for at least several minutes, giving you more than enough time to properly dispose of the machines. But as with normal IEDs, making these types of weapons poses a large danger to yourself and others around you.

Viewer's Choice (A special segment where I post certain weapons the viewers would take with them in the event of a takeover):
- Spartan Laser
- Plasma Rifle
- Bucket-O'-Water
- Lightsaber
- Steyr ACR
- FN Minime
- BAR
- Garden Hose
- Cattle Prod
- Rock Spells

Utility:
- Stanley 55-122 Forcible Entry Fubar
Essentially an eight-in-one sledge hammer, the Fubar also comes equipped with a crowbar on the other end, allowing you to pry open a machine's CPU manually in case you run out of ammunition.

- Piano Wire
A net of this stuff works well for ensnaring bipedal robots since they're thermal sensors won't be able to detect them. Not so much for mechs, though.

Vehicles:
- Military Humvee (Hummer H1)
As most of your robot fighting escapades will take place in the cities, there?s a good chance that you aren?t going to move around much. But when you need to get the hell out of Dodge, there?s no better substitute than the 4x4 power of this sucker. With mounts to equip any weapon you can think of, this baby has enough firepower to suppress any imaginable threat, giving your team enough time to get in your car and book it to safety. Just try not to get it banged up too much.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to read this!

BTW: Thanks to everyone who didn?t take the last post so seriously and didn?t make comments such as ?Fucking seriously. This is worse then last year. It's been like 20 zombie threads in a week. And there is nothing wrong with possible exaggeration either.? or ?I dont understand these kids, dont talk about something you dont understand, or at least if you want to make a 'list' of cool but utterly impractical things for the task I've set myself.? It?s dicks like these who are ruining the internet for the rest of us.

 

[sharks9]

pretty cool list, similar to zombies obviously but still a bit different which is nice.

 

[RaNDM G]

Yeah, I figured I might as well give an in-depth explanation for my choices rather than just list them and get criticized for it like last time. But I try to keep the system uniformed so people have an easier time looking through it. It's better than just posting a huge wall of text with no spaces between different sections.

 

[traceur_]

Needs spartan laser

 

[RaNDM G]

Needs spartan laser

... Okay.

 

[hippo24]

Needs spartan laser

Everythings better with a spartan laser



Ohh And EMP grenades definitely are a must for such scenarios...
I would Imagine by the time we create sentient robots, well have invented these.

Plasma guns would get a modifier against their heavy armor.

And a bucket-o-water....there's nothing wrong with the classics.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/EMP_grenade

 

[RaNDM G]

Anyone else?

 

[APPCRASH]

Your knowledge on American weaponry is...lacking. The m249 squad automatic weapon fires a 5.56Nato round. The same bullet you find in your standard issue m16/m4. You might be thinking of the reliable m60 which is capable of firing an armor piercing round when mission calls for it. Unfortunately the m60 is a bit harder to find these days, being swapped out for the lighter m249 or the m240. You might see an m60 crew in a company level unit or higher but still I wouldn't even use it if were talking about robots here. So you punch a few holes in their chassis, big deal. You might be envisioning being able to saw a robot in half with sustained gun fine, but in reality all you would do is melt your barrel. Also the idea of using a party of 2-3 people with the m60s wouldn't work so well. The m60 is a standard crew operated weapon. It is possible to fire alone, but being a belt fed weapon you would require a loader to be attached to the gunners hip at all times. One other thing. RPGs? Really? That my friend was cold war weaponry. The standard RPG round is meant for light armor wheeled vehicles and infantry. Some say they cant even pierce an American Humvee. There are HEAT rounds somewhere out there, but even they cant take out a standard modern battle tanks armor.

My advice, nuke em. EMP and the shear destructive power of our bombs will take them out quick enough. I never liked Earth anyways.

 

[CmdrKinslayer]

RPGs? Really? That my friend was cold war weaponry. The standard RPG round is meant for light armor wheeled vehicles and infantry. Some say they cant even pierce an American Humvee. There are HEAT rounds somewhere out there, but even they cant take out a standard modern battle tanks armor.

Not true. You're thinking of the RPG-7, which is an old variant of the RPG. There are several new variants (Such as the RPG-29) that can penetrate the frontal armor of several MBT's (Penetrated the frontal armor of a Challenger 2, disabled an M1 Abrams in Iraq).

Note that even the RPG-7 can damage external equipment (such as sensors for robots) or cause concussive damage to the insides.

 

[APPCRASH]

First of all. Stop bumping your own threads. That alone should be a banning offence.
Secondly. How is this different to your other vastly overdone thread? I mean come on. The last fucking thing we need is another worthless zombie thread.
Thirdly. You have no way of ever getting any of these things. Stop acting like you know what you are talking about.
Finally. You would not survive such a event. You would sit in your bed room crying and shitting yourself until you were rounded up and slaughtered.

It's called the draft, my friend. If something on this scale, though unlikely, happens you can assume the local sheriff will be picking you up and sending you to your local emergency military training camp. Maybe then he might see some of that equipment. Most likely he wont and will be a standard rifleman going into "the meat grinder."

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Projectile weapons are only suitable for meatbags; you need high-voltage or EMP weapons. Imagine the damage a tazer could do to an improperly-grounded combat unit. Barring this, if you MUST rely on archaic kinetic-energy weapons, you'll want to get your hands on something like the Steyr ACR [http://world.guns.ru/assault/as56-e.htm], or at the very least a man-portable, heavy-calibre machine gun (like the FN Minimi, or if you want to go old-school, the BAR).

Also, if you find yourself having to engage in melee combat with any combat-capable machine worth its lugnuts, you're better off beating yourself to death before it can do the job for you. A robot has superior strength, superior reflexes, and an inability to feel pain.

 

[Matronadena]

all you need is a garden hose ( hooked up TO a spout naturally) and a cattle prod

though a secondary back up for those tough ones is something that discharges a powerful EM pulse..



but if you are on a budget, you can just bow to the metal overlords until the Sun belches out a massive solar super storm and fries any and all electronics on earth anyway..
sure, you have to wait, but it's free......

 

[Souplex]

Why does everyone assume an EMP will always instantly defeat any robot? We already have forms of magnetic shielding, is it so hard to believe that so will killbot 5000?

 

[RaNDM G]

The m249 squad automatic weapon fires a 5.56Nato round. The same bullet you find in your standard issue m16/m4. You might be thinking of the reliable m60 which is capable of firing an armor piercing round when mission calls for it. Unfortunately the m60 is a bit harder to find these days, being swapped out for the lighter m249 or the m240. You might see an m60 crew in a company level unit or higher but still I wouldn't even use it if were talking about robots here.

Whoops, thanks for pointing that out. I gotta make some changes.

My advice, nuke em. EMP and the shear destructive power of our bombs will take them out quick enough. I never liked Earth anyways.

Robots aren't affected by radiation. Sure, you'll be able to get the 70 machines in the immediate blast-radius, but that's about it.

First of all. Stop bumping your own threads. That alone should be a banning offence.
Secondly. How is this different to your other vastly overdone thread? I mean come on. The last fucking thing we need is another worthless zombie thread.
Thirdly. You have no way of ever getting any of these things. Stop acting like you know what you are talking about.
Finally. You would not survive such a event. You would sit in your bed room crying and shitting yourself until you were rounded up and slaughtered.

First of all, "Whatever, I do what I want!"
Secondly, unlike yourself, some people actually liked it, so I made another one. Get over it.
Thirdly, I know I'm never going to be able to get my hands on one of these unless I join the military. But why would you care? It's just for fun.
Finally, nothing's impossible.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Why does everyone assume an EMP will always instantly defeat any robot? We already have forms of magnetic shielding, is it so hard to believe that so will killbot 5000?

True, but EM shielding is not perfect, and electromagnetic energy is the best weapon we have that will harm/incapacitate a robot while leaving a healthy human unharmed.

 

[Flying-Emu]

First of all. Stop bumping your own threads. That alone should be a banning offence.
Secondly. How is this different to your other vastly overdone thread? I mean come on. The last fucking thing we need is another worthless zombie thread.
Thirdly. You have no way of ever getting any of these things. Stop acting like you know what you are talking about.
Finally. You would not survive such a event. You would sit in your bed room crying and shitting yourself until you were rounded up and slaughtered.

I think I love you.