I can only speak for the BR II and BR III Thompsons, as those are the ones I’ve used most.
Do they have a decent fire rate? Sure. Do they hit hard? Kind of.
But the sights are awful, now with the added smoke effects you can see even less and the muzzle velocity is painful. Maybe the BR II Thompson, if you get a BR II match against the Axis can hold it’s now, but against Japan and their newly buffed BR II SMG with high damage, high fire rate and high muzzle velocity, yeah, no. You fire at the same time, their bullets will hit you before yours hit them and since when you die your bullets magically dissapear from the air, low muzzle velocity is pain.
Against BR III SMG’s, even the BR III Thompson, I don’t think it can hold a candle against what both the Axis and Japan has. I’m not the best player, which also hinders my lack of ability with Thompsons, but…they’re not that great and above BR III, besides BR V, you don’t have many SMG options.
Thing is the major flaw of all thompsons are 2 or one issue
Sights and velocity
Sights come into play when example we talking about a M1, M1A1, M1928A1 which hinders your ability due to it blocking your vision alot they should push back the sights or alt aim to fix the issue kinda
Velocity all .45 caliber guns have this issue and you gotta lead your shots far more than other guns if you want the best br2 gun grab the Lanchester in my opinion
I do love both Thompsons but I will not lie there are some moments in which I wish I was holding any other gun. I just love the extra damage it gives the velocity tbh I don’t mind it being bad.
I hear you, which is why I suggest you support this suggestion of mine:
It would give the US a 9mm SMG option in BR III, by simply changing the stats of the recent Patchett MK I, turning it into the High BR beast it deserves to be, and not a BR I curiosity.
Why should a cold war SMG be amongst the worst SMGs in game, anyway?
Thompsons just like all .45 guns play very differently than other submachine guns.
The low muzzle velocity and high recoil forces Thompson into a CQC centric role but oh boy they shine like a star up close.
I don’t have a problem with any of the Thompsons, however M1A1 does have the worse gun sight of all the BR2 Thompsons in the game. I only use one squad of M1A1 Thompsons and that is in my Universal carrier. I use one squad of BP BSA 1929 Thompsons, one squad of BP Hyde 35’s, one squad of BP silenced Grease guns, one squad of UD M-42’s along with a couple other BP Thompson assaulter squads. All the other Thompsons use a different sight then the M1A1 and are not effected as much by the shooting smoke. The worst Allied gunsight IMOP is the BR1 M3 Grease gun field mod squad. It has a pinhole for a sight and once you start shooting you loose complete sight of anything you were aiming at.
M1A1 Thompson
BSA 1929 Thompson
Chinese Thompson 7.63
USMC M1928 Thompson
Hyde Model 35
UD M-42
Suppressed M3 Grease gun
Field Mod M3 Grease gun (worst allied sight IMOP)
There isn’t anything they can do with the M1A1 sight since it is accurate. I own one and it has this exact sight. I do wish however they would change the M1 Field mod grease gun sight to the suppressed sight. The small hole makes it difficult to shoot and when adding the smoke almost impossible.
With Allies I really don’t use SMG’s above BR2 as I have four BAR squads in BR3, and use pretty much all rifle squads using T-20’s and M2 Carbines at BR5.
Yeah, but here’s the real problem, not every map is up close or some only have objectives that are close quarters and since you can’t pick your maps (not that you have many SMG choices for the Allies above BR III anyways) you have to bring guys who are good at CQC. Granted, I’ll be using more MG’s probably when I level most of my squads up.
