Its an Automatic Rifle just like the SVT-40 and it fires the same round as the Arisaka (6.5x50mm)
An Assault rifle must have an intermediate cartridge 7.92x33, 7.62x39, 5.56x45, ect.
I will say however the gun has realistic recoil, ive shot a Type 38 Arisaka and it has as much recoil as a .223 Remington (5.56 NATO)
I recommend placing it in the Semi-automatic rife category with the AVS-36 and AVT-40 and adding a captured StG-44 to Berlin Sovietsas an Assault Rifle, the Soviets captured almost every StG-44 they got their hands on.
Now i know people are about to go crazy for suggesting an StG-44 for the Soviets but you must realize that the soviets had captured well over half of the StG-44s they found and just by production numbers alone there were 425,997 StG-44s made and only 3,200 Fedorov Avtomats made.
Why should the soviets get an stg44 when they can get a non premium AS44 which does the same thing and is actually a soviet design, it screws with the asymmetry to just give whatever to whoever
No, they should remove the fedorov
Apart from not being historical, it makes the gameplay of both sides turn into a copypaste
I play Soviets to enjoy a weapon like the ppsh41 and Germans to enjoy a weapon like the stg
Bruh, what more do you need for the soviet faction in berlin ? you got fast firing smgs, a jack of all trade starter tank and now you want what the krauts have ?
Captured weapons are a real thing, as a matter of fact they were used more often than issued weapons because when you enter foreign land with production factories thousands of kilometers away, the enemies weapon is all you will have.
In stalingrad Germany captured thousands of PPSh-41s and planed to copy it as they realized it was superior, but Hitler said no.
On the way to Berlin the Soviets captured hundreds of thousands of StG-44s and reissued them to well trained troupes. And that’s what inspired the creation of the Avtomat Kalashinkova.
Hell the Italians captured at least 100 thousand Stens and gave it the name “plumbers nightmare or abortion”
Germany also captured the Sten and made close copys of it in the final days of the war.
America captured a whole factory of StG-44s which they then sold to civilians after the war.
Britain also captured MP-40s because they actually worked.
And countries copied enemy weapons:
China copied the M3 grease gun
Finland copied the PPS-43
Germany copied the Sten
There probably some i missed but im done with this comment.
Even if Soviets get an automatic rifle for assaulters in the campaigns we have right now, I would still use PPSh over Fedorov or even STG as OP suggested. Atleast captured panzerfaust is more reasonable due to its obviously better than the bazooka that the Soviets got their hands on through lend lease.
Stalingrad missed the opportunity to introduce captured MP40s as an early level unlock instead of the shitty Breda but Germans get their PPSh besides Kiraly and Mkb. Had to kill such heretics on using the German PPSh.
No, germans used the ppsh cus it could accept 7.62 mauser, a German round. If there wasn’t a steady supply of ammo it could take German troops wouldn’t have used it because it ran through ammo like a fat dude goes through cake, it was also the reason why the Germens opted not to copy it, in their opinion it used way to much ammo for an smg.
Again it ruins the asymmetrical nature of this game to just give countries captured weapons. If you want an stg44 you either
A. Do what Soviet troops had to do IRL to get an stg44, kill a kraut with one and take it (honestly more immersive)
B. Play as the Germans
