For those unaware spade grips were typically used for vehicle or mounted machine guns for ease of use and stability. When used in the field with infantry these types of machine guns were usually mounted on tripods for heavy fire support
Despite how difficult it would be for these sorts of mgs to be carried and used by an individual soldier in game, the devs did it, they actually did it. For better or worse they made it work. You certainly cant shoulder fire them but you can still prop them to fire
So, now I am asking this. Since we have our first spade grip ’’infantry machine gun’’, does that mean…
Browning .303 is quite small machinegun so it is a bit more realistic than infantry carried m2 or dshk. Maybe we could get infantry maxim or vickers one day
The type97 at and s18 should not be taken as example as to what a soldier can carry. also I’d like a hip fire mode over a prone requirement for all high capacity mgs 100 rounds and over the stinger included. An mg being fired shoulder full auto is just comical. It have less accuracy being well hip fired
Also yeah some of those guns are heavy machine guns in size recoil and caliber as in big bullets as I in more small cannons rather then guns
IMO, the concept is good but most of the machine guns you showed are hardly portable so we should widen the scope.
IMO very heavy and bulky machine guns or stockless machine guns that can still be realistically carried and operated by a single soldier should be added with the prone requirement.
Like Bergamann MG15 or Lewis mk.IV machine gun.
Absolutely not, this would just be absurd, In my time in the army I carried, fire and maintained M2A1 Machine guns they are extremely heavy, when you carrie one its usually dissaembled into reciever and barrel.
if you voted yes on this you are either 12yo or extremely misinformed.
Yes but only so long as they aren’t too crazily heavy like an M2A1 which typically are broken down into two parts for transport. Or they’d have to incur crazy movement penalities or something.
And yes I know the Japanese AT gun and like 50+kg mortars being lugged around but we should ease into this new category of firearm at least
~15kg without ammo, definitely plausible to operate by one person.
Hipfire should very least be option for such.
these are ~30-40kg somewhere between there, without ammo.
Again not exactly impossible task to carry it but the tripods doubles the weight.
as sophisticated guess it probably is possible to fire it without the tripod as long as u can support the barrel on something but doubt its very efficient.
both +20kg and I think the tripod for both weights more than the gun itself.
However, sovjets had this
