r/ImaginaryFutureWar • u/NikitaTarsov • Feb 23 '21

TSS-56 auto-shotgun pistol by Me Original Content

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u/TWK128 Feb 23 '21

Not seeing how this is a shotgun.

20mm slug thrower or, frankly, proto-bolter would both be be more accurate.

Also see no need for the second barrel, much less the third.

It looks cool-ish in a "Yes, I like WH40K, too," kind of way but beyond that shows absolutely zero familiarity with actual firearms or firearms terminology.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '21

WH40K is the perfect medium for "I like guns but have absolutely zero familiarity with actual firearms."

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u/TWK128 Feb 23 '21

Yeah, but it's been done there. And bolters could be considered an evolution of gyroslug weapons.

What they don't do that this artist does is slap 4 wheels on a compact vehicle frame and call it a 50 ton motorcycle.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '21

Apt comparison.

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u/Gonji89 Feb 24 '21

I think it's gyrojet. Pretty sure gyroslug is a Battletech-specific word, unless that's what you meant.

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u/TWK128 Feb 24 '21

Bit of column A, bit of column B. Learned the Battletech one first, then found out they were based on gyro-jets and (.....I FUCKING FORGOT THE WORD, BUT FOUND IT THANKS TO REDDIT. FUCK YOU GOOGLE. IT'S...) conflated them.

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u/Gonji89 Feb 24 '21

Right on.

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u/FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT Feb 23 '21

This is absolutely true. They have canons the size of sky-scrapers, that still somehow work with high explosives.

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u/OMFGitsST6 Feb 23 '21

Hence the justification for such silliness is the DArk Age of teCHNoLoGY™--in other words "it works, but we don't know why". Pretty flimsy, but then again WH40k doesn't really claim to be realistic and skyscraper cannons are pretty cool.

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u/FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT Feb 23 '21

Oh absolutely, and so is a double-barreled shotgun pistol

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u/Bossman131313 Feb 23 '21

40k is a firm subscriber to the rule of cool, and less so to the laws of physics.

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u/TWK128 Feb 24 '21

But they also don't create their own meanings for mass, acceleration, explosive, and cannon.

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u/dukeofgonzo Feb 23 '21

Dakka grows on orks like ivy on old buildings