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I would agree. While I ha lve never experienced it, I would imagine that there are no long sight lines, and there wil be hard cover in the form of trees everywhere so long range stopping power would be of limited utility. The close confines lead to a bullpup or carbine configuration so the weapon doesn’t upkeep getting caught in stuff.

I love the idea that you can recharge lasting power packs by leaving them in the sun. I get the feeling that the amount of power actually required to drive a high energy laser weapon would mean you would not so much need to leave them out in The sunlight, but rather actually drop them into the sun in order to recharge them in a meaningful time. Similarly with fires.

A campfire probably gives out about 100kW of heat energy in total. The thermal converter would need to be pretty magical to scavenge sufficient heat to charge a relevant amount of energy.