Yes, it is stupidity.
Also, guns with mags. Reloading is not pulling out the mag and just showing it back in.
You need time to open the mag holder and put the mag in the gun. Most of the times mags were stored back in, not thrown on the ground. Guns with more ammo should have this soft advantage over their low mag capacity cousins. And changing mags in hot area should be a risky endeavor.
But the game left out the realistic approach miles ago.
Mannlicher is quite literally the best BA this game has. You should see my Normady Troops with the 12% Bolt Action ROF buff.
Its auto rifle level of firepower.
As for the Reloading, most Italian Rifles using En-Bloc Clips could not be topped off. You basically had to eject the En-Bloc and then load a new one. So it is fairly accurate with the exception of NOT losing bullets when you eject the Clip too soon and there is Ammo Remaining.
Itās about even with the Ross and Enfield for fire rate, isnāt it? Fastest firing BA for Axis Normandy for sure.
Just tested, and of the Mannlicher En-bloc rifles in the game (M1895 in Normandy, M41, M38, M1981 and Armaguerra in Tunisia) Only the M1895 doesnāt use a mannlicher reload. The others eject a whole clip and load a fresh, full one, the 1895 uses a top off animation it wasnāt/isnāt mechanically capable of. Sure, some guns with mannlicher magazines can be topped off with singer rounds, but itās not a fast or simple process.
Correct, of all the guns the M1895 can be topped up, which is not quite historically accurate.
Its pretty close to the allied guns, its is the best with the ROF for the Axis side.
The only conceivable Firearm they could give the Axis (in a non-historical sense) that would be faster would be a K31.
One of the few that I can pull a mad minute off with.
Yeah, that would be ahistorical, but Iām not ashamed to admit Iād switch to axis tomorrow if they got the K31, itās my favorite rifle in the safe. Canāt get gp11 these days, and canāt really replicate it, so I donāt get to shoot it often, but I love it every time.
I have a Dhillon Reloader station, so its easy for me to feed the old girls when possible.
Would be nice if they gave that to us. We have that Assualā¦errrr sniper rifle in Moscow after all.
I reload too, and if quantity was my only concern, it would all be fine (except for recent components shortages in the US, lets gloss over all that, not the place) but no one makes a projectile shaped like the swiss used. I can get close with the 175gr matchkings I use for 1000yd .308, but itās not perfect for 7.5 swiss.
Eh, at least the MKb 42(h) probably saw action in the Kholm Pocket, and the STG 44 was used pretty heavily by the end of the war. Iād almost be okay with the K31 on a premium squad or gold order, but Switzerland was scrupulous with their neutrality and I doubt it ever saw combat use. (Iād still geek out if they added it.)
Very cool.
I used to use this stuff out of Serbia (of all places) and it wasnāt too bad (when you could get it, the Pandemic has made everything hard to obtain). The K31 has always done some weird cold bore crap for me. I love it though, it is so unique. Suprisingly I put it above my 98 (Non-K) and my 98 is inline with my MAS36.
I would love a premium squad with this rifle. I canāt even imagine it, and the 12% ROF increase.
Probably end up in SMG territory for ROF lol.
(or give the Premium Squad a +25% Perk LOL).
Although it never saw war use (at least as far as I know) I know mine personally saw a lot of field use as my butt is not in great condition unfortunately. Still workable, but not a show piece like some of my others are.
Unfortunately, my only milsurp rifles right now are the K31 and a hex receiver M91/30 mosin, which is surprisingly accurate if you feed it handloads instead of surplus eastern-bloc MG ammo.
I think most K31s have ugly butts, while they never saw combat (probably) they did see loads of field use, in the alps, in the snow.
That sucks.
Iāve been collecting for Decades now, and years ago there were lots of options (not so much now unfortunately). I donāt think I will ever be sold on a Mosin anything lol. I have 2 , and no matter how much I have worked on the bolt and carrier / extractor, they still do not feed in a consistent way. Accurate with Hand loads? Reasonably enough. About 2 1/4 at 100.
Iāll have to find pics if I have them, I shot a Vintage Rifle Match with that rifle vs a field of good oleā boys with US Steel, mostly garands with a couple springfields and one Krag mixed in. Donāt remember the whole course of fire, but 200yds, multiple positions, slow and rapid fire, reloads and all, I took 3rd place of 15. Even if I hadnāt, competing at all on that field Iād say is good enough for a communist boat oar XD
as this has gotten off the topic-
Most if not all rifles that take en bloc clips need the clip to be inserted in order to operate properly, as without it thereās added empty space that the rifle isnāt designed to deal with.
So the Garand and Carcanos shouldnāt be able to reload from individual rounds.
Nice, yeah I always called it a Russian Walking Stick.
I couldnāt be bothered taking mine to a shooting comp. I couldnāt trust it enough to sustain fire.
Iāve probably got 100 pictures as well. So far and by far my favorite for shooting comp is a Type 99 (I have the short pattern one).
Sorry Annie, I get sidetracked. Old rifle talk and all of that.
You are 100% correct.
Nor should the Mannlicher 1895, if weāre being realistic. You can do it, sure, but each round is gonna take more time than just stuffing a new clip in.
Yeah Iāve never liked the fact that the 1895 could take individual bullets as that is not correct to that model of rifle.
That being said, it is probably better that it doesnāt as it could become OP.
Eh, I doubt it. Itās still a BA rifle, a fast one, but still. Itās not all that much better than Ross, and Lee-Enfield can almost match the RoF with twice the ammo capacity.
Sorry, I was actually making a joke because of all the OP weapon threads that exist on every FPS ever made.
only time a single-bullet reload was ever OP was on the auto 5, and that was because you didnāt even need to pull the charging handle and actually chamber the shell to fire it.
You could just keep firing halfway through the reload animation.
Wait, on a totally empty gun? That would be a bit broken. If itās still got one chambered, topping up the tube on a shotgun between engagements is just good practice, and if the Auto 5 locks open when empty, itād be just an animation away from making sense as youāve described it.
Still glad it didnāt make it into the campaign. 1912 is already the best shotgun in the game, and itās good, but not OP.
it wasnāt a totally empty gun, but the shell was in the tube and not in the chamber when you could cancel the reload animation and start firing with no delay
Of course the gun just got removed and the problem wasnāt really pointed out, because the complaints about it were along the lines of āsemi-auto shotguns OPā and not āhey the reload is broken and exploitableā