If these two rifles become available to any class no one will be using the armaguerra or the various enfield rifles. I’m not a huge fan of this recycling and was also hoping for a more bolt action oriented campaign with Tunisia since the Brits didn’t really employ semi autos in significant enough numbers for that to be represented here. I was sceptical to the armaguerra at first but seeing the stats and testing it out I could see some sort of balance between it and the enfield. The m1 garand and the gewehr 41 however throws the viability of bolt actions out the window again, we’re missing out on an interesting alternative by having these two weapons included, it’s just going to be Moscow 2.0.
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I will use them, soo when you say no one will use them is a lie.
How can you avoid recycling when those weapons just have been in use for whole war? Because rearming is long and expensive process.
Also i will rather take Enfield then Garand.
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the British have their own semi automatic garand is a plus
the Italians have German squads so the g41 is for them
I think more options are always Better however I would rather see appropriate countries weapons first (even prototypes) and there are alot of weapons for both Italians and British without borrowing weapons just yet.
I ill use both at any given rate.
I like the g41 Alot on normandy engineer squad, so I m sure I ill enjoy it on tunisia too.
Going to use them as much as I fel like it - there’s already a truckload of other a-historical nonsense - whats 1 more piece.
You do you.
We already have US squads in Tunesia (60th Infantry Reg. and 16th Inf. Reg., 109th Engineer Reg. and the 133th Inf. Reg.). Same for axis. So why not?
Having multiple nations should be included in France too since we have a dozent of British and Canadian guns there.
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Semi autos are cringe
Bolt Actions are based
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With the players having the ability to transfer weapons between campaigns- This will be weird to balance, honestly.
Players who accumulated G41s, or, more easily, garands, will have a massive power boost at the beginning of a campaign.
While it would reward players who already played those campaigns, it’s still weird, especially when they’re ahistorical.
Garands and G41 were there, soo they are not ahistorical.
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A quick google search gave me no results.
Enlighten me.
Troopers of 1st Infantry division with captured G41 and Axis PoW.
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And garands?
Really? Those were standard Infantry rifle of US Army from 1936, they have been fully equiped with them just as war started.
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Any documents or photos, then?
Garands being the standard rifle didn’t exactly mean springfield rifles weren’t in service at the time. They were still issued before getting replaced later on. There’s still the matter of whether or not they were available in Tunisia.
You did not understand me? I said, US Army was fully equiped at start of war, that is end of 1941.
Springfield have been in frontline use mainly with US Marines as they always had worse equipment than Army. But here you go.
First we have soldier with M1 in Battan, that is Philippines, start of 1942:
Here is during operation Torch, that is November 1942 (that is before Tunisia), landing of US and UK forces in French North Africa:
And one more, with palms, soo you know its Tunisia:
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The 1st Ranger Battalion marching over hilly Algerian terrain in late January 1943, shortly before the raid against an Italian outpost at Sened Station in southern Tunisia.
Crewman with an American anti-tank gun watch for attacking German tanks near Sidi bou Zid, February 14, 1943, in the early hours of the Axis counteroffensive that led to Kasserine Pass.
Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion of the 16th Infantry Regiment-part of Terry Allen’s 1st Division-head east through Kasserine Pass on February 26, 1943, after Rommel’s withdrawal.
Garands… Garands everywhere.
M1 Garand was the standard issue rifle of the US yet people come here with basic sceptisism to prevent SA rifles (and even one of the most famous guns of WW2).
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Yeah, i get people are sceptical about Gewehr 41, but Garand? Really?
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Oh boy, then I really can’t wait to saturate the campaign with semi autos to make the earlier levels a breeze.
I dont see a SA rifle spam in Moscow.
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