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you cant have blood and gore in warā¦ imagine what horrors that would do to peopleā¦
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Yes, I have seen videos of US Special Forces personnel showing how to breach. (This will be useful if you lose your house keys someday).
I read on wikipedia that in WW1, the shotgun was an effective offensive weapon in the trenches and was utilized by soldiers at the head of their troops. However, I have heard that the speed of evolution in warfare was so rapid that by WWII, the tactic of breaking through or bypassing trenches had already spread, and large-scale trench warfare was no longer practiced.
Well, I just donāt know, but I was wondering how shotguns were actually used in WW2.
Is the performance in the game the result of a game-like rendition of how they operated in real life, or not?
If we were to recreate the realistic WW2 usage in a game, what kind of performance should it have?
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Iām not sure how room clearing was taught back then but I can speculate.
They would have used it in room clearing as your point man mainly. If you were going room to house in a German village, for example, you might elect for 1 man to carry a more maneuverable shot gun. He would almost always travers the halls and stairways as your point man as you want to mitigate injury from the slugs shot spread but if he was blowing the door off he might also be rear guard as the more selective firing carbines Thomson and grease guns would have moved in.
Historically luftwaffe bomber crews used them as well. Probably preparing to seize a farm house so that they could radio for a rescue pick up.
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Pretty much non, I would love to see any good reason to change yout rifle, lmg or smg for shotgun in WWII battle.
Ut would maybe suit Stalingradās encounters, but thatās pretty much everything imho.
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The opinions of real airborn are compelling.
Wait for Arnhem
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I have rarely seen photos of WW2 soldiers with shotguns in historical photos.
But in Pacific photos I see it all the time.
Perhaps it was useful for jungle warfare or for clearing tunnels of Japanese troops.
But I donāt know what use they were put to.
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Shotungs were not really used in WW2, marginally by the United States.
The German M30 was a pilot gun issues to DAK pilots and that wasnāt a gun issued against humans but against African wildlife like āelephantsā (despite that there are no elephants in Lybia/ North Africa). The TOZ-B description already indicates that it was at best a partisan weapon and not a gun used by the Soviet Army, at least not by the time, they reached Berlin but hey they also have AVS and Federov zombie there so why bother with a DB shotgun.Ā“?
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The picture is Pacific. Pacific was different from Europe and included more āCQCā, trench fights, and so on. And also used them as second-line gun there.
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think that lockpicking lawyer has better videos if you lose your keys. 
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Well realistically buckshot will still royally fuck a man up no matter how tactically obsolete it is. Shotguns should at the very least reliably OHK up close.
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