Adding the Klappshaft (Folding K98)

The Klappshaft is a folding version of the K98 and thus a BR1 rifle. i would love to either see it in the tech tree or arming an tech tree paratrooper squad. Its by far time that Paratroopers be added to the tech tree. Tech tree could have rifles event could have mg/smgs.

The squad would be a good compliment to the Japanese para-rifle squad already in the game. A five shot bolt action rifle is clearly BR1. It could also be a paratrooper-squad with swapable weapons as everyone has been asking for.

Add the Klappschaft

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How Should it be added

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About that folding stock k98... : r/ForgottenWeapons

Paratrooper variants

Experimental versions of the Karabiner 98k intended for the German paratroopers that could be transported in shortened modes were produced. The standard Karabiner 98k was too long to be carried in a parachute drop. However, the German paratroopers made only limited combat drops after the 1941 Battle of Crete; there was therefore little need for these rifles. Specimens with folding stocks (Klappschaft) and with detachable barrels (Abnehmbarer Lauf) are known to have been produced at Mauser Oberndorf.[8]
Mauser K98 Rifle 7.92 mm Mauser | Rock Island Auction

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Only to be used with Paras, no reason to have it elsewhere

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of course

G40K would be better for this role, and it’s already in the game files

Road to El Dorado Both is Good | Goonhammer

well to be fair folding seems to be a common para strategy and same gun but shorter/carbine is not very unique but i would love in time to see most if not all guns in game files added
(https://media.tenor.com/Nn8isgs0akIAAAAe/both-is-good-road-to-el-dorado.png). German Mauser G40K Experimental/Prototype Bolt Action Carbine | Rock ...

The G40K could work better as RT because it was meant to be a carbine of the Kar for special units just like the Soviets’ M1938 Carbine and Japan’s Type 38 Carbine.

Although the G40K was an experiment and never fulfilled so it could theoretically be a special squad with a unique weapon, like say a premium Riflemen or Engineer squad

The Folding Kar98k was made specifically for Paratroopers so it should be a Para squad

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G40k (to my knowledge) never left the prototype stage. It should not be in the TT