Thompson Rant

This is some kind of a joke i assume ?


huh?

isnt it obvious that SMG having higher overall performance than a should have been 1200 fire rate MG ?
i mean whenever i play in tunisia there is always 1-2 dudes spamming these and farming newcomers hard

not even mentioning about tanks an actual TD getting clapped by Grant and not being able to penetrate it frontally. You have to aim for the weakspots. Dont know for sure but mostly because of sensitivity issues you cant even aim properly your cursor goes too far away or doesnt even move.

SBD having 2 extra 100Lbs bombs and has better flight characteristics

oh boy i have a lot to complain about dont i ?

The thing here is that mg42 wasn’t used in 1200 rounds as much as people belive they were.

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As far as I know, it was. More over, it’s rpm was supposed to be even higher.

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No, according to reports wasn’t.if wasn’t deployed against planes. Squads would go for a bolt that would deliver a stable 900 - 1000 rpm over 1200-1800.

Ammo,and sparebarels availability showed that wasn’t reliable to go on a lighter bolt just to spam bullets.

Also, mg42 wasn’t that big of a upgrade to 34 on firerate reports because of that(was in costs and production rate sure) , it only showed 4 more bullets per min on practical firerate than mg34. (154 bpm to 150) the reason was because it was used more with a bolt at 900 rpm than the 1200-1800 capable firerate that was just too much for practical use/barrel lifetime /ammo avaiable.

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i just looked up about M1928A1 thompson and found that things fire rate was mostly around 700 even looked up its handbook it says 600 and how does that thing starts at 900 ? also searched for drum mags but they were ‘‘rarely’’ used because of being not reliable and tends to jam more than boxes

The standard enlisted player won’t get it. You wouldn’t have 1200 rpm with a drum magazine, it’s ineffective. Belt fed: yes, drum fed: no.

Yet rechaimbered MG42 so MG3 has 1200 rpm stock. So if they used 900rpm to save stuff, why would they suddenly decide to increase rpm?

As far as I know, low increase was caused by crews using shorter bursts than with MG34 to have better accuracy.

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you gonna compare German Ww2 to modern German doctrine, economy, supply etc comparing a 42 to mg3 now a days? Really?

And also mg3 it’s deployed at 800-900 with option to change the bolt to 1000-1200.

Isn’t 1200 standard on curtent doctrine.

But what do I know…

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im pretty sure that those mounted MG42s in D-Day map are also 900 rpm

1000lb is smaller than 500kg and American bombs have less explosive mass to casing than German ones do, so it has extra bombs to make up that difference in ordinance.

Edit, one more thing:

The British were notorious for using drum Thompsons all throughout the early war, the Americans were the ones who found them unreliable and clunky.

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Nothing because how we can see in the game going over 800-900 rpm dont give advantage outiside wasting ammo

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MG3 was adopted by FDR as far as I know. So I’d say that after the war they had worse economy than 3rd reich.

thats not how it works in enlisted thats the problem also looked up that one too

AN-M65 differs

SC500K has 260kg of explosive mass and M65 differs

Wrong FDR was supported by the migthy America, german reich rely on herself for the entire war and wee see what happened, more the war going on and more their resources end

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Oh, I didn’t know what. This changes things.
It’s first time I hear about this.

But that is how it works in Enlisted, because that is how it works in War Thunder, which this game steals it’s models from.

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i wasted 1300 hours in war thunder no regerts also

it works fine in war thunder but in enlisted AN-M65 opens a two times bigger crater and has bigger splash

In conclusion its pretty much confirmed allies biased

still frikkin mad about a thompson having 1040 fire rate -_-