As someone who unfortunately missed out on the event featuring the german & British para squads I was excited to have finally gotten my hands on the german para event squad featuring the FG-42 with grenade launcher from the veteran box!
Having purchased the Kreighoff FG already, I was expecting similar ammo capacity. However, they do not share the same ammo count? My suggestion is simple, have the FG-42 GL match the similarly matched rifle of the same family carry 20/80 into battles of BR 5 instead of its current amount of 20/40.
This ammo increase is only for the base ammo count brought into battle via para drop or ground spawn and should not be taken as an increase to grenade count, which should remain at 1/2.
Below are two images showing current ammo counts for both firearms.
FG42 GL has standard SF rifle reserve ammo.
It would be unfair if players had 100 FG42 ammo plus whatever weapons they pick up from the box so a more realistic change would be adding big ammo pouch as a seperate load out option or including the ammo pouch in already existing loud outs such as assaulter loud out gives the first 3 MG34 dualdrum and the other 3 big ammo for fg42.
Naturally, this should extend to all other paratrooper squads.
I would def like an ammo bags option for paras. I don’t even want their box weapons normally but have to grab them because their ammo count is so low.
But if they aren’t going to give that, I don’t see why one FG should have so much lower ammo than the other when they can’t normally get an engi and cannot take ammo bags.
I like the Kreighoff paras better then the FG42 Grenade launcher paras.
The Kreighoff has a slow rate of fire and low recoil, along with a high damage and great sights making it extremely good for picking people off at medium/long ranges, but also useful at short range. Drop them on top of buildings like the hangers on Airfield or the buildings in the Power Plant map, and you can easily snipe off waves of enemies faster then they can look up and target you.
The FG42/GL is alright but the grenade launcher takes like 5 long seconds to attach it where you are very vulnerable. Also the splash radius of that grenade is not great, closer to the scheissbacher then the AT grenade launcher (GGP40 or whatever its called). Its very good for a free event squad, but I like the Kreighoff better.
Maybe you should try to torture the opposing players less
Not many people like having 6 full-powered automatic rifles suddenly appear behind them, right?
Especially when their teammates are terrible.
I also agree that the FG paratroopers have very little ammunition
But that’s just because it’s just a FG rifle that’s free (important) and has grenades (although not very useful).
Maybe you should look at FG paratroopers by the standards of FG rifles on the ground
