2000AD Simulating a Montigny Mitrailleuse

[Eurik de vieze Goth]

For those who are in doubt as to what a Montigny Mitrailleuse is,


So far I've been playing a failry stock fantasy OLD, but I want to give the bad guys some early Crimea-Franco Prussian war repeating weaponry.

Any ideas on how to build such a thing ruleswise? I'd like to cook some actual stats up for this instead of winging it. As I imagine the party will be quite happy to strap one onto their stagecoach.

 

[Morrus]

There's some artillery weaponry and mounted cannons and machine guns in NOW. I'd model it off one of them. I'm not super clear from the image what that is, but it looks a bit gatling-gun-esque?

Similar things in NOW off the top of my head you could model it off:

WWII weapons:
Bren light machine gun
Browning M1911 machine gun
Vickers machine gun

Vehicle weapons:
M240 General Purpose Machine Gun
FN Minimi Light Machine Gun (a.k.a. M249 Light Machine Gun)
M134 Minigun
M3P Heavy Machine Gun
GAU-19 Gatling Gun
M230 Chain Gun
M242 Bushmaster Autocannon

 

[Andrew Moreton]

I don't know the rules but I do know the weapon. If the 1860's gatling gun is not available your nearest is the Vickers machine gun but only allow it to fire for a couple of rounds before spending a turn reloading to simulate the fact that reloading is not as smooth as the belt feed. Also if there are any malfunctions possible it should be fairly unreliable with a tendency to wreck itself if the loading was messed up and the barrels not in alignement