I know the Axis had some 8mm bolt actions such as the FEG 35M. I don’t know about other nations though.
I personally still like having some bolt actions on my squads, just for the hit power and range, and I know this can be obtained through upgrading some of the existing bolt actions. However, when they get their penetration issues figured out, I think having some of the larger bolt actions might prove beneficial to gameplay.
Its definitely not a top priority request, but something down the line.
I’m not a history buff and I play less of the Axis than I do the Allies. I got the Berdan II (listed as a 10mm) for the Soviets on Moscow and its honestly starting to grow on me. I didn’t know if there were similar larger calibers for all nations available or not.
Like I said, I’m not a history buff when it comes to this. I didn’t know if there was an in-between caliber, larger than the 7.62- 8mm range but less than “anti-tank” that could be introduced.
mmm…I dont think so…I think most of the 9mm,10mm and so on rifles went out with the black powder age. I think once you get past your 7.62,7.65,7.92 and things like that for the era we’re playing in, you jump up to 12.7 with not much in between.
Unless, you have the Berdan, or Darkflow introduces the Martini Henry for whatever reason.
I confirmed my suspicion with a search. The Berdan II is an 1800s era rifle, ending production in 1895. They fired a 10.75mm round, in fact the very first rifle to introduce modern primers. Or the “Berdan primed” bullet, ditching black powder.
The bullet itself was an older, round nosed style bullet. A design that was in the final iterations of it’s production as countries began moving to smaller, sleeker “spitzer” rounds like what you see today.
Full rifle rounds like 8mm Mauser and 30.06 are kind of the max for WW2 infantry rifles, anything larger is in anti tank rifle territory and thus wouldn’t be a primary infantry rifle, if we ever get a permanent modern campaign then it’d make sense to get larger rifle rounds that’re below anti tank rifle size like 338. Magnum
Plus the way bolt actions are in Enlisted at any practical range so long as you’re not hitting someone in an extremity it’s always a 1 shot kill so bolt actions are kinda like how something like a Barrett 50 cal would be in COD, tho I do agree that it’d be really nice for bullet penetration to get fixed cus a 30.06 goes through plywood and drywall like it’s not even there, plus I can remember specific instances where Japanese tanks on Saipan got knocked out by the bow machine guns on some Shermans cus they were in poor condition
only black powder rifles had bigger calibers which were usually one shot rifles cause fouling from black powder could cause mechanism malfuntions on usual 5 round BA,
though there was a semi auto rifle initially designed to somehow resist black powder cartritdges but once smokeless powder was introduced they immediatly switched to it , i think it was Madsen 1888
8mm mauser provided the best range at that time, it was cartridge that brits chose to use when they were plotting to assasinate hitler in berchtesgaden , while shooting at him from the forests of the opposite mountain
