M30 Drilling

### Description

The M30 Drilling ("Triple") is adapted for the Dead War to have three 12-gauge barrels for maximum damage output against the Zombie hordes!

## Statistics

### Ammo Clip

3 (non upgradable)

The **M30 Drilling** is a shotgun weapon in the Zombie Army series.

## Summary

The Luftwaffe Drilling Model 30 is one of the most unique and versatile weapons both in game and in real life, its a side by side, break action triple barrel shotgun. manufacturing started in 1930 where it was mostly used by hunters, the luftwaffe adopted the military variant of the m30 in 1941 and it was used only until 1942. the reason for its short service time was because the drilling was mainly issued to luftwaffe (airforce) pilots during the afrika korps campaign of the german army, which ended in 1943 and in 1942 the allies had already conquered too much territory and resources.

the drilling was used as a "survival" weapon, picture the scene: your plane gets shot down, you survive the crash but now your in the middle of the African wilderness surrounded by wildlife, to maximize your chances of survival you grab the drilling, (if it wasn't destroyed by the crash impact which happend a lot) only to find out a 3,4kg weapon with 12 gauge 00 buckshot and 9.3×74mm cartridges is pain to carry in the hot dessert behind enemy lines. so they were often dropped because pilots also carried a 7.65mm pistol, which is also present in game as the 7.65mm polizeipistole.

A good example of: The idea was good, but in practical it just didn't work, too expensive, too unwieldy. That's why only around 2500 m30's were ever made.

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## Upgrades

* Incendiary shots upgrades
* Trigger Mod Upgrade: 1 trigger pull means all three barrels fire at once
* Sawed-off barrel: more spread, less range, increased reload speed
* Slugs: Replace the 12 gauge buckshot for solid slugs/projectiles, increased range, around the same damage and no spread/area of effect damage

## Strength

* **Versatility:** The M30 was designed as a specialist weapon, this is shown in game by adding a versatile upgrade tree, for example the m30 drilling has access to sawn off barrels which increase spread and reload speed, a trigger mod so that one trigger pull will result into firing all three shells at once and above all else, it has superior range over trench gun without the sawn off barrels of course. the major drawback here is that in order to apply a sawn off barrel or a trigger mod you need to access the workbench, the attachments cannot be changed on the move. with the drilling, you have to know for sure what your gonna be up against before you go in, so you can select the right attachments at the workbench in a safe room.
* **Reload speed:** having access to only 3 shells in all three chambers, reloading is far more frequent than with a lot of the other weapons, luckily reloading times, especially with the sawn off attachment/mod is pretty fast, at approximately 3.5 seconds without the sawn off mod and only 2 seconds with said attachment, making reloads, as frequent as they are, surprisingly fast.
* **Damage:** As with all the other shotguns, damage is high, and the drilling is no exception, it has the highest damage of all the shotguns in the game, up close the damage is even the highest in the entire game, the damage bar is maxed out, just like the upgraded Mosin-Nagant M91/30. with the trigger mod however, even the most hard hitting weapons in the game won't even come close to the amount of damage of three 12 gauge buckshot shells fire simultaneously.
* **Fire rate:** Being a triple barreled shotgun, no pump action is needed for chambering a new shell in the magazine, since the absence of both a tubular magazine and a pump. meaning that the fire rate is much faster than the other shotguns in the game. as is the damage output per second. resulting in some insane damage this thing can cause to the undead horde.