Light Machine Gun

Light Machine Gun (LMG) is a category of Machine Guns whose exact definition is somewhat vague. The term is almost never used in ShackTac.

The term "Light Machine Gun", as used by some real world military forces, could refer to either of these two ShackTac weapon categories:


 * Medium Machine Gun (MMG): A fully-automatic weapon firing 7.62mm "full-powered" rounds from a Belt.
 * Automatic Rifle (AR): A fully-automatic weapon carried by members of a Fireteam known as "Automatic Riflemen", using the same type of ammunition fired by the normal Riflemen in the team (usu. 5.56mm or 5.45mm), but loaded in high-capacity Magazines or Belts.

On this Wiki, the term "LMG" is used to bridge the gap between the two categories above; It describes a fully-automatic 7.62mm machine gun which is carried by the Automatic Riflemen as part of a Fireteam - rather than by a separate Weapon Team.

Due to this definition, there is no functional difference between LMGs and MMGs in terms of the weapons themselves - only in how they are distributed to the players. Please read the article on Medium Machine Guns for more information.

This definition may or may not reflect how Shackers would call such a weapon! In fact, there is at least one example of an "LMG" (according to the definition above) being referred to as an "MMG", despite being carried by a Fireteam.