no my point is that you cannot bring a 50 round drum and 100+ round box for a machine gun
the RD44 is designed to be able though not optimally as the drum can hang from the gun, while the box magazine of a german mg would require either the hand of the gunner to support it or an object to rest on. one to hold the grip and operate the trigger one to support the barrel and a third to support the box magazine.
So soviets can do what ever the fk with large mag but GE is limited to 50 ?
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no if you search through many post o0n this forum you will find such an ability existed in earlier german guns,
german guns were not designed to be hip or shoulder fired did you not wonder why they had such high rates of fire and why the rd44 is so low.
dunno first clip with “shoulder firing mg42”
wow german technology a 25 round belt holds 200 bullets
German belts are called “Zerfallgurte” and were made of individual interlinked metal parts, so the possible capacity is only limited to your amount of belt parts and ammo.
Standard lenght were interlinkable 50 round belts. German Mg drums weren’t real magazines but only belt containers and were designed for assaults, just providing a better handling while firing on the move for the shooter than a free belt.
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For the love of god stop using “historically accurate” to describe equipment functionality. You’re only undermining your own goals.
No… it varied between 900 and 1500…
No, god no, the IRL ammo size for an infantry squad member was 50
The 250 rounders were separate belt boxes for emplacements
And the 100 round belt right now is hIsToRiCalLy iNaCcUrAtE because you wouldn’t walk around with them like that, and the belts only came with 50 rounds (but with clip on capability). So belts with higher round counts where they stuck a bunch together was for emplacements or entrenched defensive positions, you wouldn’t actually run around with them, that’s what the goddamn belt-drum is for…
So you might as well say 300 rounds, 500, 1000, infinity, sky’s the limit when you don’t give a care!
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Nope. Not enough. Give it 500 rounds (2 belts put together), 2000 rpm, and 100% move speed for historical accuracy (the soldiers were on meth). Also it needs to have no dispersion penalty for balance reasons. Also give it a Vampir night vision sight (not for other factions though) and add night maps so I can use muh wunderwaffe.
EDIT: Also give us a MG42 with 25 rounds and 75% move speed for br2 germany and a FG42 with a 10 round mag for br3, literally unplayable against the burgers and commies. Please fix.
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And to Japan too, but painted green please.
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I agree - it should entirely have it’s historical context - so give axis teams using it 0 perks (due poor supply, low morale), no more than 1 tank per team per game, no air support and no artillery or ammo boxes.
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That would be unfair, at least let them have child soldiers to have smaller hitboxes. Easiest way to nerf the fedorov is to have a smaller hitbox and not be hit.
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Good point - and negative perks too…
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Old people are also needed. They will die at random times and not let the enemy kill them.
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- “…you imbecile…” - someone who shows such primitive historical understanding & low IQ in his post shouldnt use this word
- your knowledge of ww2 weaponry is the low-mid level someone gets when thinking reading a wiki page counts as research. german belts were modular and the boxes were just for transport. any variation of 50-100-150-200-250 was common on the battlefield. especially when under bad supply situations 250 belts could be split up into shorter lengths.
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That has got to be projection… And you’re not beating the allegations with a “no u”
You somehow think that you’d be able run around with a 100+ round belt, without any container, just loose in the air, in any meaningful practical way… Where would you store it, how would you prevent jamming from a shit feed angle if you were to use a back pack. There’s a reason why infantry machine guns without belt-boxes or magazines required a loader/ammo carrier. And yes I do think that the 1919 and MG 81 are silly for being used like they are in game, before you accuse me of being a hypocrite or pulling a whataboutism. But since the game has decided that 100 round belts are “practical” for one man, I’m drawing the line at 100 rounds.
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Better grab the MG42 100 and give it the corresponding Rate of Fire and a longer Ammo Belt for the Specialist Fraction’s Machine Gun In this class of weapons in WW2This option is better than putting in a 3rd MG42
The 1800 are only for the MG45, the improved version of the MG42.The standard MG42 Bolt has a Rate of Fire of 1200 and the Light Bolt 1500, the latter of which should also be the one to use.We already have the Glorious MG81 so there are no problems in giving this amount of high Rate of Fire to the MG42
Incorrect, that figure is a modification, from the factory it is 1200-1500
It would be amazing to see the early premium MG42 receive this treatment as well.
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quite sure majority of lmg’s had ammo carrier regardless was it belt / mag fed.
also early mg34 with select fire / rate reducer
But the mags and belt box ones didn’t require an ammo carrier to be used effectively… “Nice to have” is not the same as “almost unusable without”
The MG 34 had a kinda progressive trigger setup
Or rather a trigger with two notches where one is full auto the other semi
depends what you consider effective, laying sustained fire as machine guns often are supposed id say its quite hard.
Depends what you mean by emplacements. Yes, they weren’t fired on the move in this configuration (or at least they weren’t supposed to), but they were certainly used by common infantry both in attack and defense (not only in bunkers, pillboxes etc).
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