Is it just me?

[seabolt]

For much the same reasons that you express, Chris, I'm far more fond of the MGs in SPWAW builds of the game. They do far more damage to an unsuppressed leg unit, especially if the crew lets them get pretty close. In turn, the MGs suppress easily if anything survives to fire back on them.

To be fair to the WinSPWW2/SPMBT builds, they've expanded the horizons of the game and added a ton of functionality (including z-fire, which might break the SPWAW model). I'm sure that there's a balancing act in getting all the weapon types to feel pretty much right measured against one another, and it may be that the designers consciously watered down their MGs as a balance for making them more durable.

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