[color=598527]"I would not be so quick to dismiss a shotgun as not heavy hitting, ma'am. I've seen ammo that the Arbites should know, such as rounds designed to home in on targets. Coupled with slug, various explosive rounds, gas rounds, and stranger that I've seen used, a shotgun can hit well above its weight."[/color] Ansgar was rather fond of shotguns, specifically the Krieger favored Lucius Pattern Mark 22c semi-automatic shotgun. Engineers were fond of the revolver style magazine the weapon employed, one could very much treat the things with impromptu grenade launchers, just lower velocity than the common method of likening bolters to high velocity grenade launchers. Engineers loved the Mark 22c, the thing could sweep trenches and tunnels clear in a few blasts, the weapon's lack of range and ferocious kick mattered little to the Kriegers born with a natural talent for combat engineering. And Ansgar was no exception to this, he still missed his shotgun over the hellgun he lugged about still. 

Ansgar patiently listened to the merc woman talk to great length about her current project, an amalgamation of las tech that would probably get her strung up by the cogboys if they caught her with the thing. But, thankfully for her, they had no cogboys with them. [color=598527]"That sounds like an attempt to make a single man portable las cannon. Just more unreliable and jury rigged. Why not strip down a lascannon and bulk up a bit, or use a suspender rig to aid in carrying it?"[/color] Ansgar was seriously questioning how useful this sniper cannon would be, considering it really sounded like a jury rigged las cannon. The Krieger had seem some strange combinations by desperate soldiers, but this hardly seemed to be a situation fitting for such a jury rigging. Not when, as he pointed out, either stripping down a las cannon, bulking up, or using mechanical assistance could accomplish the same with a far more tried and true method of armor hunting than some amalgamation of parts and circuits.

Ansgar wouldn't be so crass as to go I told you so, when the thing blew up on her, but he would certainly not be within the blast radius when it went critical. He had to admit, it seemed the group had a fetish for heavy firepower, something that, while he could respect and find it useful, he did not share. Each weapon and piece of equipment was a tool, nothing more. If a knife could get job done as serviceably as a heavy bolter, why waste the time, resources, and manpower to use a heavy bolter when the knife would suffice? Perhaps he was being unreasonable, sticking too closely to the common supply problems of siege warfare, and never having the luxury of getting to have such a fetish for heavy firepower. Then again, perhaps it was unhealthy for their focus on such things. But then again, this was a psyker and mercenary he was dealing with, there was never any promises they would be reasonable, sensible, or otherwise sane! With that though, Ansgar maintained his silence, despite the plethora of further commentary he could make on the situaiton.