not having fought for over 500 years.
The swiss have been famous mercenaries throughout the middle ages. Faught in crusades, 100 years' war and all other famour wars in history.
dress in tights outside the Vatican with funny head gear
The Vaticanguards are one of the best in Christiandom. Hang on... they are supposed to be The best. But naga, you already know that you rouge.
Additionally conventional war theory is based more on the ability to wound rather than kill, since that puts more pressure on the enemy infrastructure and has more demoralising effect than simply killing the enemy.
That was the theory.
In the scenarios of Insurgency, one would rather kill than wound, since the latter puts more pressure on your infrastructure et al.
Wounding has a very detrimental effect on the enemy during war. Psychologically and also, one needs a man/men to look after/carry away the wounded also once in the hospital, a wounded requires more resources than the dead. A wounded soldier still fighting happens in bollywood or in PVC scenarios. Its rare, thats why they get the PVC. I was shooting with a major of the British army at the ranges some times ago. He told me UN dictates a soldier MUST have a properly zeroed rifle to prevent wounding. UN has had to dictate that soldiers be rather killed than wounded.
also 7.62 X 39 has accounted for more elephants (at the hands of poachers; example veerapan) than other calibres esp 223.
It is interesting to note that the 5.56 round, AKA 223, is not legal for hunting of deer in most states of the USA.
Ditto for the UK.
Most 7.62x39 chambered weapons were designed as suppressive fire weapons rather than for accuracy.
Regarding 'stopper' one usually refers to self defence. The point being once the person is hit, he crumples. Anyone will crumple/stop if hit in the head/brain or the engine room. The point is that if the person cant be hit in the absolute vital zone, he should still go down.
Thos will be achieved b hydrostatic shock and the secondary wound channel.
Think of it this way. Why are indian NPB calibres called 'pea shooters'? Not because they are less accurate. Hit a person in the head with a .32 or even a .25,and he will 'stop' all right.
But hewont 'stop' if hit in the shoulder.
Now take a 416 rigby and hit a person on the shoulder see if he stops or not.
The physics of stopping power and the arguments go on for ever. I am not in SWAT or police etc to have tried both on a man charging me with a knife and compare the effect.
The argument can be that a certain smaller calibre can be devastating than a certain other larger calibre but i dont think anyone will deny that generally spoeaking, bigger calibre= bigger stopping power.
If in doubt, i would stick to a bigger calibre.
