The point is to deliver widespread, lasting damage, which usually is used to flush people out of heavily entrenched positions. You tell me a more effective way do flush people out of a jungle.
Well the flamethrower in TF2 does use a propane tank as fuel, leading to the short range as mentioned in the article. Also, yar, this is the reason why flamethrowers are good.T_ConX said:I'm going to ask Wikipedia...
Banned? I though weapon bans were exclusive to games...Wikipedia said:The flamethrower is a potent weapon with great psychological impact upon unprepared soldiers, inflicting a particularly horrific death. This has led to some calls for the weapon to be banned.
Blind areas and fortifications. Sounds ideal.It is primarily used against battlefield fortifications, bunkers, and other protected emplacements. A flamethrower projects a stream of flammable liquid, rather than flame, which allows bouncing the stream off walls and ceilings to project the fire into blind and unseen spaces, such as inside bunkers or pillboxes.
50-80 meters? The flamethrower in TF2 barely gets 8 meters! DAMMIT VALVE!Typically, popular visual media depict the flamethrower as short-ranged and only effective for a few meters (due to the common use of propane gas as the fuel in flamethrowers in movies, for the safety of the actors). Contemporary flamethrowers can incinerate a target some 50?80 meters (165?270 feet) from the gunner; moreover, an unignited stream of flammable liquid can be fired and afterwards ignited, possibly by a lamp or other flame inside the bunker.
please dobleachigo10 said:I am tempted to post George Carlins bit about flamthrowers but i'm not going to because I don't think it would contribute anything to the conversation. Or would it?
Fighting in a city flamethrowers are perfect for Urban warfare. Flamethrowers also have a habit of not exploding when shot, that Hollywoodization.CloggedDonkey said:They had their uses, but when you're fighting in a desert and a city you have almost no use for a weapon that is essentially a giant flame bomb with a release valve.