Why not move the MP28 with 32 rounds to BR1? Then add the MP28 with 50rnds to BR2? Japan has a 50rnd MP28 at BR2 right now so this precedent exists
If they are in different BRs then they do not compete with each other and nobody should be upset
Because the Japanese MP28 fires a different weaker round.
The German one would be more similar to the Lancaster 50 already at BR 3.
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It’s a 0.2 damage difference so I’m not sure if it actually has an impact
If the recoil was increased, say, because the giant 50rnd magazine sticking off the side makes the gun not ergonomic, the lanchester 50 could exist at BR2
They are event guns anyway, so I feel like they get to have a bit extra power compared to normal TT guns at that tier
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Fair point, 0.2 isn’t really that much but I’m still going to oppose it because moving them around would make the regular Lancaster and MP28 extended mag obsolete in the same BR. I’m also guessing that most people wouldn’t want high capacity SMGs against BR 1? Japan being the exception because it lacks in firepower.
Another Japanese clone for Germany? At least this thing is more preferable than KE-7.
I mean it is a german gun, it would be like saying adding the M3A1 HT to the allied tree is adding a soviet clone to the allies.
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I think the devs would disagree with you.
They already did the unthinkable and named the Commonwealth Lewis “Lewis .303”, just to be different…
Get ready for the M3A1 to be called “American M3A1” or something…
Yes, I am still mad about the Lewis name.
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I think we all are.
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well,
those are different though.
the UK lewis was chambered in 303. for commonwealth munitions and subquentially mounted on some vehicles during the early period of the war, and progressively phased out to rear units.
it’s not just a rename.
… as far gameplay goes though, british lewis is actually different.
stats are different and both are better in some, worse in others aspects.
most likely was done due to the constant " lazy copy and paste " that they have been getting since the merge.
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The thing is, they’re not though.
The Russian ones were just rechambered British guns (not the most difficult thing to do on MGs, both Russian and British ammunition is rimmed and have roughly the same dimensions, it’s fairly simple to do on the Vickers Mk I for example to switch back and forth). Persumably they’re from the batch of 10k guns bought from the UK during WW1, or followup civil war supply.
The visual difference is not even mechanical, too, it’s just a couple of changes/upgrades on the buttstock, and the bipod is just removed on the other one (but the stats indicate that it has one anyway), both coexisted in British service.
In fact, the differences between this upgrade and the default variant is so insignificant that the British themselves didn’t have seperate names for the two. They didn’t bother even.
Unofficially the Royal Armouries today refers them as Mk I and Mk I* respectively, but this was never a official service designation, there was just a Mk I.
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