01-24-2012, 04:59 PM
Quote: Idk what they make these gatling guns out of, but it's some high tech stuff.
I think they're just trying to replicate their real-life counterparts.
Shotguns firing normal 10 to 12-gauge shells shells have a very short range because of the blast power is dissipated over each buckshot.
Rotary cannons, on the other hand, are built from the ground up to punish targets at long range. A GAU-8 cannon, for example, has an effective range of 1.2km; each AP slug from the gun can penetrate 38 mm of armor plating at 1,000 meters.