The poor effectiveness of the mounted MG 42 as well as the handheld MG 42 makes me wonder if they even went forward with the MG3 and M60 in CoH2's universe, since the Maxim and M1919 are already superior
Since when is the M1919 superior to the LMG 42? They are almost identical. The lmg42 has slightly more long range dps while the m1919 has slightly more close range dps. The difference is that riflemen can carry 2 m1919.
Also the HMG42 does well in suppressing real blobs, imho better than a maxim.