BAR overrated?

chuckfourth · #1 June 4th, 2006, 01:59 AM

Hi All
The obvious point to make here is that pretty much every country went to war with an LMG, unfortunately for the American squads someone decided they would use a SLR in the role. Now a SLR is not as good as a LMG in providing 'covering' fire because;
1. No quick change barrel, so unable to maintain the ROF required to suppress the target.
2. Depending on how many are allocated to the squad, its not part of a gun 'team', so not enough ammo carried anyway.
So my question is, why does a SLR get statistics every bit as good as the other countries LMG's, if not better?

Best regards Chuck.

Smersh · #2 June 4th, 2006, 02:09 AM

I do agree that the BAR is overpowered an accuracy of 20 and kill of 5.

But could this represent multiple BARs in a sqaud? I'm not at all familiar with the US army.

thatguy96 · #3 June 4th, 2006, 02:15 AM

Didn't we just beat this to death in another thread?

chuckfourth · #4 June 4th, 2006, 02:41 AM

No that thread was about the FG42 the BAR was just a good example as it has the same in game values. This thread is about the BAR compared to LMGs.
Best Chuck.

chuckfourth · #5 June 4th, 2006, 02:37 AM

Hi Smersh
No when a second BAR appears in the squad it either gets its own weapon slot or the Weapon slot normally allocated to BAR gets its hit value nearly doubled.
Best Regards Chuck.

Smersh · #6 June 4th, 2006, 02:40 AM

Was the reason why a BAR so high powered definetively answered in the previous thread about the Fg42?

I think the main point of the previous thread was to show why the FG42 doesn't have higher stats not to explian the BAR's stats.

chuckfourth · #7 June 4th, 2006, 02:56 AM

Hi Smersh
Not really Clause and Narwan were careful not to reply to any discussion of BAR parameters re other LMGs. They are hoping to get under the Radar on BAR vs other LMGs.
Chuck

Pyros · #8 June 4th, 2006, 04:35 PM

Hi Chuckfourth,

First of all welcome to this forum.

Secondly, please try to avoid provoking specific persons to a flame war.

IMO, whenever you post a remark or statement, everyone will look at it and make an opinion about the validity of that statement.

So what really matters is what everyone thinks about a post to this forum and not what specifically Clause or Narwan thinks about it.

cheers,
Pyros