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Some math on how powerful the C-14 marine gauss rifle is, and it is really powerful,

starcraft 10 - Some math on how powerful the C-14 marine gauss rifle is, and it is really powerful,

So everything is from the wiki, no wank/fan theory whatsoever. (This is copy-pasted from spacebattles, not my work)

The gauss rifle fires an 8mm spike of DPU at hypersonic speeds. This is where people get tripped up, assuming it is a 8mm BULLET, not a spike, and forgetting about the hypersonic part.

First of all, hypersonic is 1500m/s or more, for reference, a mordern 50 cal round pushes 900m/s.

Second of all, the SPIKE part. it is an 8mm wide spike, that would be much larger than a conventional bullet. The gauss rifle fires in a two-stage system. First it uses conventional propellent to fire a shell, hence the casing, then it accelerates it along the barrel coilgun-style to hypersonic speeds. In this case, the gauss rifle is probably an APFSDS, (discarding sabot, like in modern tanks). That way, the spike runs the length of the bullet, so if it is around 8cm long and 8mm wide, that spike weight around 80 grams, DPU is around 3 times heavier than steel.

So, an 80-90 gram projectile travelling at a minimum of 1500m/s gives it around 140KJ of kinetic energy if not more. For reference a 50 cal round is only 18KJ, an 20mm cannon is around 60KJ. A gauss rifle round would have the kinetic energy of a 25-30mm AUTOCANNON round.

And, it is clearly stated on the wiki that the gauss rifle fires at 30 rounds PER SECOND, 1500 RPM.

So the gauss rifle would pretty much be this

It also has a 300-500 round clip, autotargeting with the marine armor/gun, and a range of at least 5km.

It is wrong to compare lore to in-game stats, (battlecruisers do not take less than 2 minutes to build) But this explains why marines are pretty good antiair, they are pretty much a walking AA battery.

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It is also a theme in starcraft that munitions trump armor. Think, the siege tank is not a tank, it gets destroyed by everything, it is just a artillery piece, the thor this giant mech, is not durable at all, a few marauders can take it down. It is like modern warfare where munitions trump armor badly. Hydralisks shoot 30cm long bone spikes at hypersonic speeds, it is all even.

It honestly sounds even more powerful than the bolter from 40k.

+++starcraft is honestly one of the more powerful sci-fi universes out there and probably could take warhammer 40k in an even numbers fight BUT remember, starcraft takes place in a SECTOR of a galaxy**, a tiny place. The Terran population in total may be less than 30 billion. Something like warhammer or star wars would outnumber starcraft 1:100000000000000 as they operate across the entire galaxy++**

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