I would like to discuss event weapons for high combat ratings for the Axis and the Soviets. At first glance, the Fedorov rifle with 25 rounds should be better, but it does not even come close to matching the characteristics of the MKB.
You’re going to say something like, hey! yes, there is everything for the Soviets, but I don’t see any good event weapons on the fifth rating. The solution to this problem is a 20-round Simonov automatic rifle.
Why am I even allowed to talk about adding something like this? From the point of view of balance, I would like to get something of the level for the 4th battle rating, but on the fifth. Is it too much to get a gun with stats of a lower level?
Here is manual for an AVS-36 in 1937
In a first page bellow is written:
Rifles produced before 1936 have magazines for 10 and 20 rounds
Link to a whole AVS manual
Decent researcher bring me a photo of this magazine - third one - for 20 rounds.
I also show - why this photo exactly from an early AVS - compare with a photos from a Kovrov(arms factory) encyclopedia:
I marked the same systems of this rifle and here is also magazine for 25 rounds (we talk about 20)
Link to a whole book
Also I found a memories of a soldier who test this guns in 1939 in a real battlefield:
Kattonen Toivo Matveyevich
During the Finnish war, we cut down fir branches all the time, made huts like this, with a bonfire in the middle - that’s the kind of life. It’s 50 degrees below zero, and there’s a meter of snow. Skis and a machine gun, and a machine gun with a 16.5 kg disc. A duffel bag is an addition to this. The second number carried two discs with cartridges, and the third already carries three discs. They carried them in special green boxes with a handle. He got hurt too, and all of us machine gunners got hurt. They also carried all the ammunition with them. There was no shortage of ammunition. Of course, we had to save bullets, shoot in short bursts, and we could release the disc in one burst. There have never been any problems with a machine gun, the machine gun is trouble-free. I wasn’t afraid of water, and I wasn’t afraid of snow. He was my best friend in that war. And there were self-loading rifles for 25 rounds
Good quality modern photo of an AVS early which can help to make a model
There will be no more than a few of these weapons per year - it will not give any significant advantage, but at the same time AVS for 20 rounds will be desirable for an engineer or the first soldier to receive. It will be a decent good weapon.
What about the characteristics?
I suggest leaving the rate of fire of a regular AVS-36, but slightly worsening the spread (its an early version). The other characteristics are the same, only the magazine is bigger - 20 rounds like the event MKB.
It can be given to a both sides because AVS was quite common in use by finnish and german troops
- Yes
- No
Whole research made by @_DELAVR
