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Originally Posted by Kartoffel
Why did armies in real life switch to crappy 8 hex rifles when 10 hex rifles are so much better in-game? Ditto for the 10 hex LMG vs. the 12 hex.
Give me a circa 1930 A.D. Lewis & Enfield armed squad and I will beath any 21st century squad, with less points spent to boot!  |
Switching to intermediate power cartridges was necessary in order to make automatic fire possible (or at least usable).
You could never build an AK or a STG44 around the same powerful cartridge used by the Mosin Nagant (as a matter of fact they had trouble enough making a reliable semiauto around it) or the Mauser. In essence some range has been traded for greater short range firepower.