Yeah Lewis gun being an event weapon and not TT is criminal. Was there another variant that can be added to the TT? Were they all chambered on .303?
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Pretty sure @OggeKing said there’s a version we can use. And the event one doesn’t have a bipod or handle like the soviet one. So we could still get the 303. Added to the TT with a bipod, with the event one better design for hip firing?
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Or maybe an extended magazine version at BR 4? I think there was a 97 round drum.
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There is a option to have a 97 mag for the lewis gun in BFV. But we should still get a br 3 version
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There is also this version of the water-cooled Fedorov, which features a bipod. This may be more desirable, but looks a lot more similar to the “Fedorov MG” in-game.
Here’s the Fedorov MG, for contrast/comparison:
Indeed there is.
In official service, there was ever only something called the “Lewis Mk I”, however they do appear in two distinct patterns that collectors and firearms researchers have come to call “Lewis Mk I” and “Lewis Mk I*”.
Internally, they’re identical. Externally, one has a service-modified buttstock. A minor change really, just light reinforcements, and a hole to fit a oil bottle. That’s it, unmodified and modified guns coexisted within British service.
It currently exists in game as the Soviet premium (depicting a gun rechambered for Russian rimmed ammunition). It would be a trivial matter to add it to the Allied tech tree as well (at worst, the ammunition it shoots has to be remodeled to .303 British, which is hardly a difficult feat).
As far as I am aware, only aircraft Lewis guns used the 97 round drums in Commonwealth service - they had the sights compatible for it, a regular Mk I Lewis’ sights would bee too short for it.
But, those aircraft guns were pressed into service, too… especially by the Home Guard.
Here's a two-man Home Guard gun-team with such a Lewis conversion (Lewis Mk III/III*)
By all rights, the tech tree slot should go for a regular Army pattern Lewis, before anything else…
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As for the suggestion, I’d like to vote “yes”, and not have to choose a implementation avenue… because I don’t really mind how it’s added…
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I checked the suggestion and nobody voted against it and it still yet to be implemented XD
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50 votes, 100% approval.
I wonder what other suggestions can boast the same feat…
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Something like this would be massive for the Soviets, especially because of how garbage the Madsen is. But seeing as it’s the only br2 mg in the Soviet arsenal, you’re forced to use it if you want MGs on BR2. If you get lucky enough to get any event stuff same for premiums, that’s the only way you can bypass it but that takes an incredible amount of time because of how they time gate events And the weird way that they bring back removed squads temporarily. Got to love the fomo. So it’s definitely time to add something in the tech tree.
Why does this thing look so not real?
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Fallout / Starwars looking ahh gun
Even for Star Wars and Fallout this thing looks too not real.
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Fake tou mean?
No, this is the kind of thing where you see something with your own eyes and don’t believe it’s real.
But yes, if that’s what you’re talking about, for a game about World War II, it’s fake.
Pretty sure Major hinted at the possibility of a .30-06 Lewis being added to the TT at some point
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Well, doesnt say much, I think it was also him making the “most recent” that the FG42 finally gets its bayonet.
I believe it might be that it’s missing a buttstock and the water jacket is larger or the same size as the entire rest of the gun. Sorta makes it look like a toy gun instead of a real one
Beuh. We need a BRITISH Lewis gun, not an American one. B.R.I.T.I.S.H!
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All Lewis guns are American. IT WAS DESIGNED IN AMERICA