vindicator minigun

[Icedfate]

I'm nearing the end of the game and i see the vindicator minigun in the shop now.
I only have 2 strength so i can't use it, however. I noticed that glory has 7 strength and it says you need 7 strength.

after buying everything i wanted for myself, i have 5700 money left, and the gun costs 5000
is the minigun a good weapon to loan to glory or is it just redundant since I picked all of her pistol upgrades on her level ups? i mostly have her run in and use her hand razors to strip away armor and then burst fire with the pistol.

[Watchman]

Seems more like an Eiger thing if you ask me. "Troll with minigun" is an old-established if factually quite impractical SR trope anyway...

[Antiquated_Agent]

I give Eiger the assault rifle to take advantage of her using it in auto fire, and Glory either a grenade launcher or the minigun + the Aim spell to clear enemies. It works well enough for me.

[Icedfate]

Originally posted by Watchman:

Seems more like an Eiger thing if you ask me. "Troll with minigun" is an old-established if factually quite impractical SR trope anyway...

I thought the same thing except eiger only has 6 strength and therefore, can not equip the minigun.
only Glory and Dante have the strength necessary and of course a hellhound with a minigun would just be ...silly

i made a save file and decided to try it and if I didn't like it i could always reload. I gave the gun to Glory, and she only gets 37% to hit with it, but if dietrich uses aim then she gets above 50% with burst fire which seems fair. combined with the 3 ap (i got a bonus ap I guess it's part of the story) and then if I use her injector she gets 4 ap and can shoot the minigun twice or shoot once and reload.

I dunno though, it might be redundant since i still feel like her hand razors have more strategic value since they can peel off the armor.

I don't think i'm gonna need money anymore at this point ...unless i want to buy new spells for dietrich or something. I got so used to using him as a buff-bot he never seems to be in position to do damage though. I did not realize you can "replace" his default spells so i was only sticking an armor spell into the empty slot.

[Watchman]

Originally posted by FeMaiden:

I thought the same thing except eiger only has 6 strength and therefore, can not equip the minigun.

...oh.

only Glory and Dante have the strength necessary and of course a hellhound with a minigun would just be ...silly

Well I suppose you could mount it on his back with some kind of motorised harness and HUD-sight setup. GL teaching the mutt to operate that though, and it's not like he's got Ranged Combat to speak of anyway...

On a bit of a digression that kind of setup would work just fine for animal-form Shapeshifters though, and might as well throw in suitably modified armour (such is already used in Afghanistan today AFAIK) while you're at it because relying solely on your regeneration power is both risky and at the very least uncomfortable.

I dunno though, it might be redundant since i still feel like her hand razors have more strategic value since they can peel off the armor.

That was my philosophy too. Trying to turn your dedicated close-combat lass into a second-rate gunner never seemed like a worthwhile pursuit. :/