Let Assault Engineers Use SMGs

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Assault Engineers (particularly the Soviet and Japanese ones) being restricted to normal engineer weapons and Assault Rifles does not make sense in the current state of the game, where there are very few assault rifles outside of BR5. An assault engineer squad with no automatic weapons is not very good for assaulting.

We know from context of other event and premium squads that nothing breaks when engineers are given SMGs or even MGs.

Giving SMG access to assault engineers will let them perform their intended assault role in all BRs, regardless of whether a player has access to rare low-BR assault rifles.

  • Yes
  • No
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I would add that using the Hyde AR doesn’t make too much sense, whereas a Thompson or grease gun is more realistic for the US squad. Make the poll public please.
(edit) IDK if there are low BR AR’s for each nation?

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We collect low BR AR just for these squad, and now you want low BR AR lose it’s last remaining use?

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Make the poll public please.

How do I do that? I’m new to the forums.

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You may not be able to change it but when you build a poll selecting the cog wheel icon and go to advanced settings and select show who voted.

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Alright fair enough, I’ll keep that in mind for next time. Like this?

  • Yes, give assault engineers SMGs
  • No, do not give assault engineers SMGs
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Yes that’s awesome.

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Except that is not the intention of assault engineer in game, the intention of assault engineer in game is to compensate the removal of the ability of using assault rifle in Stalingrad engineer.

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Waiting for an eternity

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Definitely not. I hope this will never happen. Low BRs should be free of six engineers all equipped with SMGs.

Literally a seal clubber’s dream.

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Such a change would be the perfect opportunity to limit soviet body armor to just Assault Engineers.

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Well the firepower would be kinda equal to Paratroopers and Assault squads, seal clubbing itself wouldn’t change, but the added utility is indeed not to be neglected.

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No.

Paratroopers are forced to have limited ammo reserve. And assault squads don’t have the ability to build anything extremely fast using 6 men at once.

Not to mention about the convenience of being to able build ammo box with any squad member.

Assault engineers simply shouldn’t get access to all SMGs.

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I think this shouldn’t be a viable argument, because Paras should obviously get their ammo and some sort of utility when deploying on ground.

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In an ideal world, yes. But that’s not our current situation.

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Surely though having access to some of the more obvious Historically numerous/significant SMG’s like a mp-40, M1928 A1 Thompson, type 100smg, PPSh and a few others wouldn’t hurt.
However…

I can understand not wanting Assault engineers with SMG’s on BR 1 and 2 for whales to seal club newbies, it would be off-putting for them. Restricting SMG’s on Assault engineers to BR3 and up would help as BR 3 introduces GL’s, Flamethrowers and some nasty HE spam. But for BR 5 there is little point in saying only AR’s for Assault engineers especially when SMG’s aren’t as meta as select fires and AR’s at BR V.

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Where it should be as assaulter engineers were the only Soviets to actually wear body armor.

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Not a bad idea at all, considering APCs have a BR restriction, it doesn’t hurt the games logic to limit assault engineers to BR3+, however the only real use case for BR2 Mkb35 right now also is with the assault engineer squad.

Though the whole “ARs are better than SMGs argument” isnt even true. STG44 is really nice, but only because its RPM is higher than Mkb42.
MP41R completely shredds STG44 in close range.