Ive been playing this game before the stalingrad update came out, half a year i think ? then took a long break from the game. I just recently reinstalled the game after hearing about the customization for other campaign is going to be implemented
Mostly the movement (crouch and prone)
Doesn’t matter which gun even if its PPSh, FG42, Thompson, Mkb, BAR, STG, etc it is when the one using it can be killed even with a bolt action unlike tanks where you find the weak spot to shoot at. Plenty of tools to deal with them including grenades.
Dunno if you are even aware that the bolt actions have been buffed.
I thought they were still all the same… plus they’re fun to use
MP40 is as accurate as PPSh and 0.5 dmg isnt impressive for having twice less ammo and lower rof.
MP40 is worse or as good as PPSh except for 0.5 dmg boost which isnt impressive if you consider rof and magazine of the drum SMGs.
So to counter an Assaulter I am supposed to use a sniper as Assaulter lol?
Oh 9mm is not bigger than 7.62 … russian players bias ure ready to imagine every reason to not recognise the russain PM are completly OP in this game … cause doing so will put the dubt on your skill XD
Wow 0.5 is amazing.
Just dont ask how amazing twice+ more ammo and rof is.
U forget the fact taht PPSH has less spread full auto than a mp40 who is designed for no recoil XD and u ll find how this game is “historical” 
Ok, i think i found my problem. I was using the MP38 from the Moscow campaign
nahh, MP38 and MP40 has little to no difference
well basically, if you compare German late game assault squads to Soviet late game assault squads you’ll see that the extra sniper soldier as an option means that “effectively” Germans get an extra assaulter, because the Sniper MkB is basically just that, its too inaccurate to actually function as a sniper, but the DPS of that gun is on par with PPsh and STGs.
prior to the Kiraly, I used only full snipers squads in order to counter soviet ppsh, because there was no other weapon close to their performance.
nowadays the Moscow Soviets definitely have more top tier weapons to choose from, with the AVS and the Federov, while also having good semi auto sniper rifles, which can actually even be used as sniper rifles unlike the sniper Mkb.
the regular Mkb is not trash, it has good enough dps at medium ranges, but up close you’ll get destroyed, 500 rounds per minute is just not good enough dps up close without being a one kit kill like the AVS.
You seem to know all the things that’s in the game, hidden or not. Praise be CN Vault@live 
ah yes, and I think this gun has been buffed sadly from 12.0 to 13.7 dmg
Not to mention this gun… The StG44 is barely a challenge against the feddy 
My bad then.
Tp be fair, MP38 is supposed to be worse than the MP40 in terms of rof. Yet MP38 is arguable one of the best Axis SMGs. Not only because the thing apparently has something like 0.25 dispersion.
You could also use AVS sniper.
AVS sniper is more accurate, deals more dmg, has more rof and recoil is enough for burst.
Basically asymmetrical. Neither AVS or Mkb are much better than the other.
Also, Sniper only have like four autos at best (not counting ABC). Assaulters can get five.
if we realistically talk about the performance of the MP40 vs the PPSH, one has to admit that both weapons had excellent controllability according to many sources, even tho the PPSH was firing MUCH faster than the MP40 it was very easy to handle.
However when I see people on youtube argue about these weapons no one is willing to place the ppsh first over the Mp40 despite its much higher rate of fire without loss of accuracy over the MP40.
Its just that there are more things that need to be considered in the real world about the performance of a weapon than just simply “damage potential”
The weapons had at least some problems with their magazines and reliability, while the MP40s mags were rather easily damaged and thus could cause feeding problems, the PPSH mags had the special problem to them that they didn’t fit every gun, so soldiers usually only got one or two mags with them that were reliable.
Also one has to think about the fact that “drum mags” make a lot of noise while you are moving around, a clear disadvantage in cqc combat.
Issue is that the game doesnt reflect it.
Having reliability features would solve a lot of issues but then I get it that people dont wanna suffer more from RNG.
Just hipfire heads in CQC
You have the accuracy they lag in vs the MP40 at range
Well I also wouldn’t really want that to be a thing you know, but, also I would argue that the PPSH can be allowed to be superior to the MP40 since there are many more weapons options to choose from on the axis side, yet I don’t think that the most iconic German SMGs should be completely useless compared to the PPSH, which is kinda how it is right now.