Battle Pass: Third Season of 2026

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It is one of the many mid to late, and even early cold-war, British SMG experimental designs.

The British had adopted the Sten gun family of SMGs in haste, and they knew that the weapon would not stay in service forever, and so by 1944 they had laid out the requirements/specifications for a replacement SMG. When the initial expediency was over, the British could then look into newer alternatives, more in-line with what they actually wanted from a SMG, rather than just adapting what they could manufacture at short notice as had been the case with the Sten.

Even before these 1944 requirements, many could already see the writing on the wall, such as George W. Patchett, who was already tinkering with his concept of a weapon as early as after the adoption of the Lanchester SMG. What we got was the Patchett, which evolved into the later Sterling L2 SMGs.

There were other SMG designs in play, developed by other people at around the same time. The “Viper” series of SMGs are but one of the contenders, designed by Derek A. Hutton-Williams.

The Viper SMGs were intended for military police duty in post-war occupied Germany. It was thought that such duties would lend themselves to designs more aimed for quick use rather than conventional use, so one-handed use and hip-fire practicality was in mind. It’s not as bonkers as you might think, though, if you’re expecting remnant nazi activity, and you want to give your drivers and motorcyclists a weapon they could respond quickly with if ambushed (theoretically being able to hold on to and control your vehicle as you fired your gun during the retreat).

As for the use of the MP-40 mag, I guess the idea there is that, again, it’s intended for post-war occupied Germany. MP-40 mags would be in great supply as the country would be disarmed, and theoretically manufacture could be restarted again as well. So, it makes sense this, too.

If I didn’t make it clear, no this was never adopted, it ultimately lost to the Patchett in trials. British military authorities weren’t that impressed with any of the Viper SMGs.

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of course they did, here is another proof

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Yeah, this thing has some Volkssturm junk vibes.

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Okay!

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It’s to test the armor lol

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“Tankpower 9 - Japanese Armor vol 1” by Andrzej M. Tomczyk
ISBN: 83-7237-097-4
Page 118

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Thanks for the explanation king!

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my thought exactly

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and you just give me the reason, the color not mach my man,symbol is more or less

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Every soldier is important and deserves to be remembered, regardless of whether they have many decorations or not. History has proven that soldiers with few decorations can perform great acts of kindness and heroism that raise troop morale and create connections of exemplary conduct for future generations!

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I wish we got just this clean skin without all the “cool” junk on top.

Or at least if it was removable.

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Zzzzz… another slop smg.
Amazing…
Imagine adding a silenced rifle, like a Kar98k or Mosin, or a cool low br. machinegun… no, just one slop smg after another. We don’t even mention an experimental or low production sniper rifle, no, cause that would be complete blasphemy.
Not gonna lie, I feel like the devs are doing their very best to bury this game.
Chinese in Moscow, Stalingrad and Berlin and chopped up Mosins… incredible…
Meanwhile the quality of the core gameplay is rotting in decay with the AI at the forefront, 0 improvements, 0 bug fixes… just shallow garbage to keep appearances and blind fools.
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Supposed historical reference:

Il-2-37 (red 28) armed with underwing NS-37 cannons. 37mm. Winter of 1943-1944.

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“Fun” historical fact:

The NS-37 cannon was originally developed by Yakov Taubin and Mikhail Baburin at OKB-16 under the designation 11P.
In May 1941, both designers were arrested for “producing inferior weaponry”, Taubin was subsequently executed in October 1941, Baburin died in Gulag in 1944.
Following their arrest, Alexander Nudelman and Alexander Suranov took over the project, modified the design (switching to belt-fed ammunition), and it was renamed NS-37 (Nudelman-Suranov).
In 1943, they received the Stalin Prize for the weapon, while the original creators remained officially erased from its history for decades.

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I wonder if the devs ever considered that removing the Battle Pass shop would mean removing the option for people to get rewards from old battle passes, and therefor lower player retention.

Now, if a battle pass is uninteresting for someone, they’re just not going to buy it.

100 Gold is not enough to retain player interest, if that’s all they have to look forward too…

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:

The new shorter BP format did not require the removal of the Battle Pass shop.

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I honestly hope that who ever thought that was a good idea is fired. Most dumbest decisions ever made.

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We have an unfinished Japanese tech tree. Not one Japanese tier 5 bomber. Not one teir 5 Japanese Prem plane. Not one Japnese teir 3 to 4 Prem tanks. Unfinished transparentcy that was promised. Questions go unanswered in forums. When will this game get new managment and leaders. I have never in my life seen such lazyness put in to one company known has Gaijian.
Keep in in mind I have been playing video games since Atari Frogger and Pong. Gaijian tops the list of lazyness and incompantance. I demand new leadrdship in the game, I am firing the current devs for failure and lack of effort and I dont care what any of you mods think. This is my honest opinion and it wont change because you cant take well deserved critism. Any take down of this post is an automatic admission of everything I said. This post does not break any forum rules.
Need help geting this game back on track and that wont happen untill players and mods start demanding it in mass. Time for Gaijian to grow up.

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You have no ideal of someone is good or bad, stop that non sense. Even if someone wasnt top player, so freaking what. Their opionin matters also. Stop making yourself the standard.

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Ive been saying they have abandened Japanese side of things for so long.

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i can safely make that assumption if they have a negative opinion on a weapon whos bad stats are mostly reconciled by having even the tinieist bit of skill

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This gun’s stats are really mediocre. It’s a submachine gun with way too much recoil and not enough damage.

Just look at the spread. The Sten has a relatively high rate of fire, but its recoil is on the high side. In actual combat, it’s probably on par with the Owen at best—maybe a little better, but not by much.

It shares magazines with the MP40, yet only deals 6.6 damage.

This gun’s stats are just plain bad. High recoil, low damage for an SMG.

This year, after the Sichuan Thompson, we’ve got another gun with messed-up damage values.

Seriously, why does Anton keep adding these underwhelming guns? This thing looks like a WWII version of the Uzi. Back when the gold shop was still around, no one would’ve bothered getting it.