Hello bajtársak and fellow forumdwellers!
A short history
The Steyr-Solothurn S1-100 was born after the first world war, as restrictions forced the German arms industry to continue weapons development and production in neighbouring countries.
The weapon itself was designed by Louis Stange, who would go on to design the FG42 as well. The S1-100, like most SMGs of the interwar era, was influenced by the success of the MP18. It was made to the highest standards earning it the nickname of the Royce-rolls of submachine guns due to the high production costs.
In the 30s Japan had purchased thousands of S1-100 chambered in 7.63 Mauser while Austria´s police adopted the it in 1930 and the army in 1934, after the Anschluss the Austrian army was integrated into the Wehrmacht and were redesignated to MP34(ö) standing for Österreich (Austria) and would go on to see service with both Whermatch and Waffen-SS.
In game both variants of the MP34(ö) are BR1 and are represented as slow firing submachine guns, both firing 450 rounds per minute without upgrades and 520 rpm max upgraded.
However, this assumption is incorrect.
The MP34 was chambered in many different cartridges from 7.65×21mm Parabellum to .45 ACP, naturally different bullets came with different fire rate thus sources can vary between 500-600 rounds per minute.
Source for 9mm parabellum (in game, European Axis tech tree) (he talks about fire rate at 2:15)
Source for 7.63x25mm Mauser (in game, Japanese tech tree) (he talks about fire rate at 8:50)
Both of my sources have personally fired these weapons, thus their claim of both submachine guns firing 600 rpm is highly accurate.
In fact most submachine guns that were based on the MP18, such as Lanchester, Tallinn Arsenal M23, Bergmann 1920 share the same fire rate of 600 rounds per minute.
However increasing the fire rate will massively buff these submachine guns thus they deserve to be moved to BR2.
Comparison with the BR2 Lanchester
| Submachine Guns | Damage | Reload Timings (s) | Statcard Recoil | Actual Recoil | Moving Spread Increase | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weapon Name | Obtained | BR | 10m | 100m | Velocity | Magazine | Reload | Alt Reload | Rate of Fire | Vertical | Horizontal | Recoil Control | Vertical | Horizontal | Dispersion | While Aiming | Hipfiring | Visual Recoil | Recoil Dir | ADS Speed | Recoil Offset | Sprint Factor | Weight | Additional Info |
| S1-100 | 5000 RP | I | 7.0 | 3.5 | 370 | 32 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 520 | 22 | 9 | 0.4 | 9 | 4 | 0.60 | 0.0 | 10.0 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 100% | 4.2 | 32/128 |
| MP 34(o) | 20000 RP | I | 6.8 | 4.0 | 400 | 32 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 520 | 31 | 13 | 0.4 | 12 | 5 | 0.66 | 0.0 | 15.0 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 100% | 4.0 | 32/128 |
| Lanchester | 58000 RP | II | 6.8 | 4.0 | 400 | 32 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 690 | 30 | 11 | 0.4 | 12 | 4 | 0.71 | 0.0 | 15.0 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 100% | 5.2 | 32/128 |
Furthermore, considering that the S1-100 is Japan’s first tech tree SMG, I would like to suggest a replacement as well.
Tsingtao submachine gun
The Tsingtao Type 16 submachine gun (also sometimes spelled as Tsing tao or Qingdao submachine gun) was developed in around 1927 (16th year of Chinese republic) at the Tsingtao Iron Works factory (青岛铁工厂). This submachine gun was also manufactured at the Dagu Naval shipyard (天津大沽造船厂生) and likely at many other factory and even smaller workshops.
It is a licensed copy of the SIG Bergmann 1920, with a very notable difference of having its magazine moved from the side to the bottom of the gun.
Due to the decentralised production differences may occur depending on which factory made it. Most were chambered in 7.63 Mauser which was very popular in China at the time.
These submachine guns were captured by Japanese soldiers in large quantities and because Japan had already adopted the 7.63 Mauser, ammunition was plentiful.
