First I apologize for how this is written, I wrote it with the little knowledge of English I have and Google translate so this will be short.
What the title says, I want machine guns, at least heavy machine guns, to be able to cut down trees.
It hasn’t happened to them that sometimes they look for a place to put their machine gun and it turns out that the perfect place is the window of a building that is literally covered by a tree which you are unable to break.
I think it would be good if the machine guns could cut down these trees with a few shots, allowing not only us but also our companions to see the enemy better, I even think it could help the tanks a little when they try to pass through a forest.
It is even logical, I mean, in my low knowledge about the weapons of the Second World War, the fact that heavy machine guns can destroy a low BR tank makes them capable of destroying a simple tree.
no because mg cannot cut down trees, mg in game can kill light tanks because they are destroying vital inards and igniting fuel and ammo opr killing crew do some research in real life it would take hundreds of rounds to cut down most of the trees in the game that look to be about one to three feet wide
I understand and I saw how long machine guns take to cut down a tree in real life, but I still stand by my decision to make machine guns cut down trees.
First, machine gun nests are rarely used because:
easy to kill because you are very close to the point to defend and everyone is pointing at you.
You put the machine gun pointing at the point to defend, they killed you and now your companions have to deal with a machine gun that didn’t kill enemies but killed all your allies, why? because you were very close to the point and if you tried to get further back you couldn’t see anything because of the trees, debris and even the bushes were yours.
biggest enemy
Nobody wants to walk around the entire map looking for the perfect place to aim only to realize that the machine gun doesn’t go down enough, there is a tree or several trees covering the entire place, an enemy or allied tank decided to die in the worst possible place and Now you have a black smoke screen that doesn’t let you see anything.
As you can see there are three things that are repeated, being close to the point, the trees and the bushes.
Getting killed by an enemy sniper? I can live with that, destroy the cannon with gunshots? I can live with that too. But how do you want me to have fun with the machine gun if literally the only tree in the city is blocking the street and if I put the machine gun on the ground the bushes and debris don’t let me see anything.
The tankers have it worse, do you know why the tanks hate the city? debris, do you know why tanks prefer to go through a street than through the forest on the maps where there are trees? because walking through a forest sometimes gives cancer.
The rubble as a tanker doesn’t bother me because that’s the fun of fighting in the city, complicated streets, enemy tanks appearing near you since they moved down another street, etc.
But in the forests, no one moves through the forests because if you go fast the trees stop you completely and if you go very slow you can’t even go over them. If the machine guns could help them in some way we would see tanks appearing from the side and not from the front as always.
I also like the idea of using axes to cut down trees, but we would need a longer game mode like battlefield, because for now I think that the axes would cut down two trees and the game is over xddd
I agree with the medium-sized trees and smaller ones getting cut down with large calibers like 20mm, .50 cal, and the DShk round. Small trees should be able to get cut down with regular LMG rounds as well.