Best weapon for the investigator with military connections

[Daylen]

Well, the creation of nanotechnological automata is itself just bioengineering under a different name...

Well creating biological organisms and structures is just mechanical and electrical engineering under a different name...

[citybumpkin]

Given the immunity of mythos beasties tend to have against impaling weapons, and the way armor and automatic weapons function in COC rules, I say...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mk_19_grenade_launcher
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mk_47_Striker

...for your military investigators who can get one on their humvee.

Or if they are on foot...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM25

This assumes a modern setting of course.

Or, if they are really well connected, some kind of laser designator (SOFLAM) with an A-10 circling overhead.

[Daylen]

Given the immunity of mythos beasties tend to have against impaling weapons, and the way armor and automatic weapons function in COC rules, I say...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mk_19_grenade_launcher
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mk_47_Striker

...for your military investigators who can get one on their humvee.

Or if they are on foot...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM25

This assumes a modern setting of course.

Or, if they are really well connected, some kind of laser designator (SOFLAM) with an A-10 circling overhead.

Must be some rich investigators. I'd think the china lake pump would be more the style for investigators looking for grenade launchers.

[JohnnyF]

Now that I think of it, a fully-automatic shotgun like the AA12 should be able to bring down a shoggoth, assuming short range (minimum damage 4), and a 20-round drum (20 x 4 = 80 hp). You could fire all the rounds in about 4 seconds.

Or better yet, two of them at medium range (damage 2 x 40 = 80).

The AA12 has practically no recoil, so you wouldn't have the same problems of barrel-climb associated with machine pistols and submachineguns.

[Daylen]

Now that I think of it, a fully-automatic shotgun like the AA12 should be able to bring down a shoggoth, assuming short range (minimum damage 4), and a 20-round drum (20 x 4 = 80 hp). You could fire all the rounds in about 4 seconds.

Or better yet, two of them at medium range (damage 2 x 40 = 80).

The AA12 has practically no recoil, so you wouldn't have the same problems of barrel-climb associated with machine pistols and submachineguns.

If only it was ever in production...