1- we all know shotguns aren’t the best weapons to use plus that only in certain campaigns they are present so why not give them to engies and radio ops since it’s lame a very rare to see in battle weapon class is exclusive to assaulters even thought the smgs are better overall.
2- and if you don’t know, the luftwaffe M30 driling is a TRIPLE barrel shotgun! kinda, you see the M30 has a smaller barrel beneath the 2, this barrel is intended to fire rifle ammunition.
I suggest the devs to add a shotgun mode and a rifle mode in the select fire button, give it some 15 bullets and make it go up with a ammo pouch !
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I think it would be fine to have that as an option, especially being able to use the third barrel of the M30.
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Yeah even the description says it’s a triple barrel shotgun lol
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the drilling should also be available for pilots
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Yes, because no one in his right mind equip those on his assaulters instead of more potent smgs.
That’s why I equip it to some of my assaulters in Tunisia… a crazy Italian with a boomstick does good psychological shock to my enemies.
Shotties are really just secondary weapons, so why not allow engies and boombox guys have access to it too.
Oh I see you and me are in the same crazy boat then because one of my brits has a trench gun, and my Berlin axis assaulter ones have an smg and a shotgun
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Yup that’s exactly why it’s dumb they’re exclusive to assaulters, shotties are useless unless other classes can equip it
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You get me! I’m not particularly looking for the most meta build all the time. Sure, I got 1 or 2 squads to face try hard scums using, say 3 assaulters squad of ppsh41 in rotation, or fg42II spammers etc… But my meta squads are not funny. They’re just effective.
A rag tag bunch with somewhat strange loadouts, or historically underpowered Volkstrum, or in our case here, shotguns… Is much more fun to play for me.
Oh you’ll be proud of me, I’ve started using the m1 carbine extensively in Tunisia 
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My assaulters tend to have different smgs and the leader of assaulter two has vg and the drilling
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Personally dont care if they are or not because they are still one of the worst options. I’ll take an FG42, AVT40, M2 carbine or any other choice over them
Just give it to all infantry tbh.
That or make them actually viable by giving them a higher effective range.
I’d say give them to Radio’s since they are required to take the 2x weapons slot anyways. I am never going to use it as a primary and I choose backpacks/ammo for everyone if they have the option.
I would rather give them the access to the rifle grenade launcher. It was like this at some point in moscow due to a bug, but then it got removed to make it comparable to other campaigns.
I like the idea of shotguns being more widely available.
I’d also like to see the m30 use it’s different ammunition types: From what I’ve read, the gun fired shot from the right barrel, slugs from the left, and 9.3x74R from the bottom, with a selector switch that flipped up a sight for the slug & rifle rounds. Certainly a unique weapon!