-you would need faster setup times if you like to reposition ur mg or move when getting flanked. your making it sound like mg42 has 360 view and can see through smoke. Regarding the mg42, i was responding to Kurobane about "mg42 having the best of everything" the Mg can have which is not true. But the mg42 does have the best of many things a MG can have, but not everything (like setup/repack time).
-never said it cant damage early light vehicles, it just doesn't counter those LV;s like clown car and UC effectively, unless it has AP, read my comment properly next time.
-never denied its not the best mg in the game. in fact ive said many times it is the best mg in the game
im not gonna waste my time on this
-that should be the case, it has a wide as fuck firing arc and should thus be prone to flanks by virtue of already being harder to flank than say a maxim
-clown car takes considerable damage from the MG-42 and retreats before being able to make the MG retreat, but the UC does better and can probably even scare off the MG with an upgrade, provided the MG-42 isn't in cover
-it doesn't do literally everything perfectly (setup or tear down), but it's flaws are far outmached by it's strengths and thus they are essentially negligible