Tac 12

The Tac 12, referred to within game files as the UTS-15, is a bullpup, pump-action shotgun featured in Call of Duty: Ghosts.
==Multiplayer==
The Tac 12 is the most expensive shotgun in Ghosts, costing 9 Squad Points.
The Tac 12 is a consistent damage, long range shotgun. The Tac 12 will fire eight pellets per shot. At any range short of five meters, the Tac 12 will deal fifty damage per pellet, taking two pellets to kill. Damage decreases linearly until 12.5 meters, where the Tac 12 will deal its minimum damage of twenty, still good for a five pellet kill. Past 12.5 meters, the Tac 12 will cease to do damage. The Tac 12's initial damage per pellet won't match what the FP6 and the MTS-255 can achieve, but the Tac 12 will have a longer range than the MTS-255 and a longer range than the FP6 on everything but the two pellet kill range, which the FP6 slightly edges out the Tac 12. As a whole, the Tac 12 has the longest range in its class.
The Tac 12's fire rate is poorest in class and slow overall, at 85 RPM. Should the first shot not secure a kill, the intended target has ample time to gun down the user.
The Tac 12's accuracy is superb. The iron sights are fairly clean, albeit large, and the recoil isn't a factor since the Tac 12 fires so slowly. The Tac 12 has the second tightest hip-fire spread of all shotguns and the tightest spread of all shotguns while aiming. The Tac 12's high accuracy, long range for a shotgun, and high minimum damage make it ideal at engaging targets at any range the Tac 12 can hit the enemy. 
The Tac 12's handling traits are mostly good. The Tac 12 moves at 100% of the base speed, aims down the sight in 200 milliseconds, and has a fast sprintout time. However, the Tac 12's reloads are slow. A 1.4 second animation must be done before rounds start to be inserted into the Tac 12, with each pellet taking 0.76 seconds to be loaded. Combined with the Tac 12's large tube magazine, the user may have to take a long time to reload the Tac 12. 
The Tac 12 has easily the largest capacity in its class, holding ten rounds in the tube by default. Using Extended Mags will boost this to a huge fifteen rounds. The Tac 12 user will spawn in with thirty rounds total, ten being already loaded into the gun and twenty rounds in reserve.
The Tac 12 has the standard assortment of attachments on offer. The optical attachments provide an alternative sight picture while aiming. Due to the Tac 12's lack for accurate fire, these sights don't hold much value. However, they can be useful when using Slug Rounds, since Slugs do require accurate fire to hit the target(s).
The Muzzle Brake is a great choice for the Tac 12, as it boosts the weapon's already impressive range to an even greater extent. The Silencer is not a great option as it'll reduce the Tac 12's effective range. That being said, the Tac 12 does have the longest effective range of all shotguns, so the Tac 12 wouldn't be the worst shotgun to use silenced.
The Foregrip is not a worthy attachment option, as the Tac 12's recoil is counteracted completely by the centerspeed thanks to the slow fire rate of the shotgun.
Extended Mags boosts the Tac 12's tube magazine capacity to fifteen rounds and boosts the starting ammo loadout by fifty percent. This is a colossal increase in capacity for the Tac 12, to the point where the player may not even have to reload once before dying. This is a great attachment choice as it is one of the few that brings a notable benefit to the table for the Tac 12.
Slug Rounds converts the Tac 12 from buckshot ammo to slugs. The Tac 12 has the longest range of any shotgun using slugs, but it is tied with the FP6 in this regard, which shoots faster. 
==Extinction==
The Tac 12 appears in the maps Awakening and Exodus for $2000. 
The Tac 12 suffers from a terrible rate of fire, making the Tac 12's damage output pitiful. This prevents the Weapon Specialist from putting the Tac 12 to good use with the Weapon Specialist Upgrade. The Tac 12 also has extremely long reload times due to its shell-by-shell reload, especially if the tube is almost empty, and this can be further lengthened by Extended Mags. The Tac 12 compensates for this by having great raw power and a lot of ammo to boot. The Tac 12 has sufficient raw power to kill a Hunter or Scorpion with enough damage boosts helping it. Weapon specialists can bypass reloading altogether by using the Weapon Specialist Upgrade, significantly reducing the amount of time wasted reloading the Tac 12, especially if the Tac 12 boasts Extended Mags. Due to its extensive ammo supply relative to its per-shot power, players will be able to use a Tac 12 for a very long period of time before they need more ammo for it.
Due to the Tac 12's reloading woes and reliance on per-shot damage, players that are not Weapon Specialists would be wise to avoid it. Players that are using Weapon Specialist may want to consider the Tac 12, for they can fix most of the Tac 12's problems and get the most out of its immense per-shot power, although the bad damage output will still be a hindrance regardless of what class the player uses.
==Attachments==
===Integral===
*Smart Choke
===Sights===
*Red Dot Sight
*Holographic Sight
===Barrel===
*Silencer
*Muzzle Brake
*ARK (in Extinction only)
===Under Barrel===
*Foregrip
===Mod===
*Slug Rounds
*Extended Mags
==Gallery==
Tac 12 model CoDG.png|The model.
Tac 12 CoDG.png|Tac 12 in first person.
Tac 12 iron sights CoDG.png|Iron Sights.
Tac 12 reloading CoDG.png|Reloading.
Tac 12 third person CoDG.png|Tac 12 in third person.
==Trivia==
*A lot of designs can be seen on the shotgun, such as on the top, where there's a big blue scribble appearing to say "ZOM", and a UTAS-USA logo on the rear sight.
Category:Call of Duty: Ghosts Shotguns