I have the l96 and the g36c and in my opinion you should definitely get the g36 before an l96, because l96s take alot of work to make them fieldable, granted it doesn't cost much monetarily it is not an out of the box weapon. You have to tune them quite a bit for them to be worthy of the weight and size they are. The g36c is a great weapon system and can be made incredibly compact by folding the stock. As for the stock battery it is not terrible, if you fire semi conservatively and don't empty high cap after high cap every hour it will last long enough.