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well the obvious answer is flanking it, though thats not always very easy to do.

if you have mechanized, a wc51 with a rifle in it will make quick work of an mg.

probably the best answer is grenades. early grenades help a lot. smoke in front of that mg and it will buy you enough time to get unsupressed. you can often force a retreat after that unless the mg has a lot of support

They absolutely eat rifles and shocks at mid to close range

hahahah eating shocks at close range

basically there are thresholds that must be reached cause the suppressed and pinned status. a squad must have a total of .2 suppression to be suppressed and .6 to be pinned. a squads amount of suppresion goes down slowly over time when not being fired upon.

mgs have a few stats specific to suppression and aoe suppression. first there is the suppression per shot. there is also a multiplier that reduces amount of suppression for nearby squads. finally, there is the suppression radius.

all shots from mgs give direct suppression, regardless of if they hit or miss. this makes determining direct suppression per second fairly easy to calculate. it is simply, shots per second multiplied by suppression. to determine how fast an mg suppresses, you would divide .2 by that direct suppression calculation. the formulas look like this:

(shots per second* suppression)= direct suppression per second
.2/direct suppression per second = time to suppress

time to pin requires another modifier (suppressed units take reduced suppression) so it would be .4 divided by direct suppression per second multiplied by the suppressed suppression modifier. add that to your time to suppress and you have to total time to pin. (you use .4 instead of .6 because the suppressed squad already has .2 suppression)

time to suppress + (.4/ direct suppression per second * suppressed modifier) = time to pin

if you guys are really that interested, i can continue on to aoe suppression, but i think i may start going over some peoples heads. also, like elchino said, the mg42 adds further complications to aoe suppression because its accuracy changes based on how many entities its targeting. this means it will suppress 3 con squads faster than it would suppress 2.

hm. youre right. somehow there was an error in my formula for the easy eight. regardless, less scatter still beats slightly more AOE. higher pen and enough armor to bouce paks and tigers beats being able to take 1 more hit.

panthers are best at max range. like shephard said, their pen is typically high enough that they dont benefit from getting closer. the enemy tanks will benefit from getting close to the panther. not moving lets tanks get close and/or get to the panthers rear armor (which is lower than most tanks).

id say kiting is your best option considering the other tanks will have the same accuracy and scatter penalties.