Profile of Vaz

lose a small engagement when I quickly try to retreat a dying squad, but they die before I click, so the full health squad is instantly selected and takes the retreat command instead.

I know the penetration value is higher on the allied guns. They will go through light tanks, while rainbow rounds won't. The issue is that the mg42 is firing different ammo, designed for AP apparently, at the same rate it fires the baby bullets. It just seems outside of the design I typically see in every gun. The more armor piercing your bullets can do, the slower the gun fires. This is standard stuff for any game, likely real life too.

If I fail to dodge a nade, I'm mad, but I know it's my fault.

That said, there are 2 nades I get caught by routinely:

• Bundle Nade: The area of effect is so huge, I receive substantial damage even when dodging.
  
• Rifle Nade: either the animation bugs out or I hear the audio warning when the grenade is halfway there already
  

I have a lot of issues with rifle nade. It's been that way since the game launched, they've always felt kind of cheap. People called the rifle nade a nuke, but I see more wipes (me or opponent as axis) from rifle nades. Especially when it comes to eliminating team weapons, no chance. You can usually pop off the nade from within an mg arc before getting suppressed. You might need a little distraction, but it's much easier than trying to do this as allies. On top of that, you get great long range accuracy, so you don't have to get close to start popping heads of the weapon crews. However, I'm aware that I'm in the minority though. It's been that way for years. Most people here think it's great as is, so it is what it is.

I also want to add that 37mp for obers is an absolute steal, they are worth twice that in combat.

I don't think that the AoE suppression is as good as people claim, in my experience, the maxim only has enough time (outside of ability) to suppress a single squad, then it gets overwhelmed/axis infantry leaves arc of fire.
You'd be surprised, I saw plenty of maxims being stolen, which kinda shoots them in the foot, because it is far easier to kill a maxim than mg-42. The ability is nice, but imo idk if it justifies usage if you ever get the option of an axis mg

I'm not a hundred percent sure on this, but if my understanding is right, I think I can explain this and the reason why the allied machine guns are great on paper and trash in game.

It comes down to 2 factors that are present on your target. Yes, the issue isn't the gun, it's the target.

There are 2 default aspects of axis troops that make them difficult targets. Small squad size reduces the multiplier for suppression and small squad size reduces the area that suppression is effective on.

This gives an axis blob more time to spread out if they are playing like shit. If I'm not mistaken, the way the suppression is applied depends on the number of models in the target area, the target area also swells based on the area occupied by the target under the suppression effect.

What this means is the more models you have being fired on within a given area the faster they get suppressed and the greater the area that nearby models get suppression added to their own counters, even though they aren't the direct target.

tldr: allies have to spread out more than axis and have less time to do it if caught.



On top of ALL that, axis troops have high dps in that small squad size, so the consequence of a single squad escaping the suppression is greater as allies. It literally doesn't matter which machine gun you use, this will always be true.

This is why you will notice that if you capture an mg42, it will still get dropped as easily as a maxim. Unless your opponent is trash and insists on a single blob charging directly into the mg42 while you have 50 vision. They will lose.

I think this is why the maxim and the .50 had low pack up times, you are expected to have to frequently switch targets manually, unlike the set it and forget it nature of an axis held mg42. Any machine gun in axis hands inherently has an advantage due to allied large squad sizes spreading the suppression effect over a wide area. You are expected to micro, a lot.