Today I did a bit of novice investigating to witness a few things with further questions.
- While menders can heal Silk Wings, they cannot in turn heal menders.
But can they still heal mecha knights spawned from the kits as the wiki says? - A full clip of the valiance delivers more damage than a full clip of the iron slug.
But does the slug at least do more damage than the Super Nova or the Volcanic Pepperbox? - The Punch Gun and the Pummel Gun cause knock back on impact but the Iron Slug does not.
But will the piercing Magnus line retain its knockback throughout its improvements?
I dunno about the mender stuff.
Each expanded Supernova does exactly the same damage as one shot of Iron Slug. Supernova has 3 shots, iron Slug 2. Hopefully, this gets adressed in the gunner update. Without damage bonus, emptying your pepperbox regular shots does 8 x 46 = 368 at depth 24. Iron Slug does 2 x 151 = 302. As you add damage bonus, Pepperbox will only shoot further ahead of Slug as well. I found this out by checking the wiki.
Callahan doesn't have any knockback either, but who knows what the gunner update holds in store? This isn't me being coy or anything, I honestly have no idea.