I used to advocate for keeping strong SMGs (Király, Tokyo Arsenal, Ppsh41, drum Thompson) on BR5 because they are still useful if used right and can compete with BR5 weapons, which is exactly why I’m asking now for the downtier of these weapons to BR4.
After Király 39M was moved to BR4, I played BR4 Axis and found that even in a BR4-5 match, I can still perform decently as long as I keep cycling SMGs while BR3 players could still keep up, finding a decent power balance in which BR4 is not hopeless against BR5 but also stronger than BR3 without crushing them.
Considering that Király 39M is already BR4 and Thompson M1928A1 is not better at all (at least in my opinion) it should be moved to BR4.
I agree with both ppSh and drum 1928 being br4 as such drum smg’s are nothing more then an introduction to what makes br5 what it is (being the tanks, SF rifles, AR’s and jets). Same with the prohibition and mp717.