German firepower

[Dan Caviness]

And well you should be drinking if you were about to storm and take a highly lethal MG 34 or MG 42! Have one for me jb!

When you consider the weapon's (for a machine gun mind you) mobility and portability, it's incredible rate of fire, and it's (optional yet common) long range optical comparators, it really does outshine about any other MG of the war. The tripod itself was an advance over other models of the time, and with the option to change out barrels as they overheated it could basically put out ungodly amounts of firepower in a very short time.

No Spandau ballets, no venerable Vickers on little Russian wheels, no antiquated Browning .30 cal water or air cooled, was in it's class. You could argue we had the .50 cal BMG and we did. Argue the fact that it took 3 men to carry the 50 BMG in parts and another two or more to hump ammo...and you can see why the German army was the only army during WWII to routinely use the MG as an offensive weapon.

But...as an offensive weapon....they didn't have well set tripods and optical comparators/rangefinders/etc...and you can certainly argue that it's effectiveness would be reduced in this capacity.
I believe their movement should reflect this. They should be slower than their PzGdr counterparts.

I will say that many of the newer "veteran" infantry units in the Matrix game version now share the 33 point fire cost with the German MG's. That is a step in the right direction, and they put out a respectable amount of offensive firepower as well. If you haven't played any scenarios with them, your in for a treat. Of course, then you have the dreaded "green" infantry to bring you back to earth....literally...

For the record my blood alcohol level is 0.000 as I write this post...but I'm in Mexico...and it's time to head for the bar my friends where I will remedy that problem...

Dan