Shouldnt be this gun capable of completely dealing with halftrack ?
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Theorically yes, but in practically no, don ask me how dev make weapon
What makes you say that?
Yeah it’s called an HMG but it’s still rifle caliber.
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It fires the same round as the Type 99 lmg and the type 99 rifle. Its only “heavy” due to to its weight
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The ptrs is not better because is semi-auto, we can say is probably the best gun jap can have
thats quite confusing
Dude, they gave us a PTRS with a fictional 7 round mag and chambered in 20mm which they called the type 97. The real type 97 is the one in the picture i posted, weighed 52 kg, was a 2 man team weapon, etc.
So the version we have in game is fictional for the sake of having one man running around with an AT rifle
the skin will change over time, but it will be likely one man weapon in here
just like M1919 A6 MG , that gun is enormous too and you can rambo style with it here
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It’s a placeholder model.
They did that with a bunch of guns in past builds until they could add the real models
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RoF is low and you have that giant heatsink so I’m sure it’s correct
but ingame it overheats way quick imo
What i find even more funny is that you can overheat a Maxim on Stalingrad. They had a water jacked just for that reason, you could fire them nonstop without overheating
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The M1919A6 weights 14kg compared to the Type 97’s 52kg. The 1919 happens to be only a touch heavier than the likes of the MG-42 at 11.2kg, so yes you can carry the 1919 and use it far easier than that AT rifle.
That and there is already historical evidence of folks running around with the 1919 and it’s aircraft derivatives ramboing it, namely the legendary stinger machine gun version which sports a 1350 RPM rate of fire compared to the 1919A6’s 500.
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Placeholder or not… It still has 52 kg irl… i mean if we’re getting into the realm of fantasy why not shoulder fire a single barrel 20mm flakgun as a german AT gunner, those had AP rounds as well.
Japanese infantry are built different, simple as
It’s pre-WW2 non-american nomenclature. In WW1, AFAIK, there were basically two classes of MG: The Heavy, usually watercooled beefybois, like the Maxim and the Vickers and Browning 1917, and the lights, like the Madsen and Lewis. The 1919 is a medium, because it’s lighter than the old heavies. The M2 is heavy, because it is, and after WW1 the US didn’t have any rifle-caliber HMGs in service, and I don’t think we’d seen any used in combat in decades until some Maxims got dragged out for the war in Ukraine.
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Also known as a placeholder…
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Read the rest of the comment, i don’t have a problem with the placeholder, rather with the fact that the type 97 was way to heavy to be a one man weapon, you would need 2 men to carry it around, one holding it by the barrel and the other by the stock, you wouldn’t be able to lift it to aim down the sights what so ever when standing or crouched, and a 20 mm round would literally kick you to flat to the ground if you fired it standing.
As a weapon it’s in the same class as a Solothurn S18-1000 20mm or a Lahti L39 20mm canon.
I would see it making more sense as a engineer built structure rather than one man runing around with one slung on his back, or 2 of them in a squad