Advice on 50 cal and 240 mm?

Jump back to quoted post23 Feb 2015, 03:14 AMLemonJuice

a fighting position is a static position, and youre not always gonna manage to put one up to cover a flank while youre advancing. thats the benefit of the 50cal team, you can constantly reposition and help cover new approaches where as the fighting position cant. also i trust MG teams in green cover since its pracically impossible to wipe a full health squad in green cover with one mortar or grenade.

Jump back to quoted post23 Feb 2015, 15:38 PMCookiezNcreem

Just to be clear I never said 50 wasnt better as an aggressive MG. Im agreeing with you in that sense.

But im saying would you want a .50 cal defending your cutoff/flank (Like kharkov cutoffs,Kholodny ferma cutoffs) or a fighting position. Thats the "Flank" im talking about.

Id hope you'd pick spending a little bit of manpower and munitions over wasting double the manpower and ~7 pop cap,in a faction thats starved for manpower and popcap.

And regarding the nades...maybe your lucky and havent lost a game due to a .50 getting blasted by RNade or GrW 34 and then finished in one burst of gren LMG, and it then being turned and used on you.

Jump back to quoted post23 Feb 2015, 03:14 AMLemonJuice

make sure youre looking at the correct weapon. http://www.coh2-stats.com/small_arms/m2hb_50cal_mp
http://www.coh2-stats.com/small_arms/hmg_team_mg42_mp as you can see the suppression per burst is very similar to each other.

a few edits after looking at the numbers again:
fighting position does have higher suppression but still significantly less dps at long range

Jump back to quoted post23 Feb 2015, 08:29 AMEsxile

If the player knows what he does, neither one or the other will stop him.

Personally I would use a rifle squad as bait & scout and reposition the MG to catch the mob out of cover.

Believing a single MG/bunker can stop a mob is purely 100% an Axis fanboi idea

Jump back to quoted post23 Feb 2015, 15:32 PMSnikeduden

If you choose the airborne commander you can always drop it to the soviets on maps with a lot of fences...

Jump back to quoted post23 Feb 2015, 15:54 PMLemonJuice

id prefer the mobile option any day. also i try not to leave support weapons by themselves so if they do get decrewed i can instantly recrew it.

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 01:18 AMCookiezNcreem

Guess ill give Ma deuce another chance. Its failed me so many times that its hard to click the build button knowing itll cause me more trouble than good.

Jump back to quoted post21 Feb 2015, 19:46 PMCookiezNcreem

Its the best building MG in the game.

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 05:45 AMferwiner

Actually it's not. The best, yet least used building mg in game is DShK, there is no major difference in reload (which is also the time of changing windows from what i know) and DShK deals more damage, has AT rounds, 6 men crew and last but not the least it's arc of fire is as big as the one of mg-42 while shooting from the window.

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 05:45 AMferwiner

Actually it's not. The best, yet least used building mg in game is DShK, there is no major difference in reload (which is also the time of changing windows from what i know) and DShK deals more damage, has AT rounds, 6 men crew and last but not the least it's arc of fire is as big as the one of mg-42 while shooting from the window.

Jump back to quoted post27 Mar 2015, 05:20 AMNachtmahr667

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I could swear the 240mm arty is target seeking. If there is something in the AOE, it WILL get hit. (If there is more than one unit in the AOE, then obviously only one unit can be hit at a time.) Problem is that the ability does not distinguish between friend and foe. So you effectively deny the area to both the enemy and yourself.

Jump back to quoted post28 Mar 2015, 16:56 PMSarantini

The 240mm does not track targets, it fires 5 shells in a radius of 30 for 1 minute

Jump back to quoted post28 Mar 2015, 16:56 PMSarantini

The 240mm does not track targets, it fires 5 shells in a radius of 30 for 1 minute