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Old May 21st, 2006, 10:24 AM

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Default Re: Bar vs FG42 is it a draw?

My involvement in this discussion is purely academic - I don't play this game (although it looks interesting). That being said, for a game that *seems* to pride itself on historical accuracy and reality, I'm surprised that it would classify the FG-42 as a rifle since that wasn't it's intended role.

Because of the nature of airborne troops they needed to pack a lot of features into a light-weight weapon. It *could* be used as a rifle, but its primary role was to provide LMG support to the squad. The FG-42 is a specialist type of weapon. It could shoot like a rifle if it had to, but could function as a LMG as well. I wouldn't call it a SAW as we define them today - but as many authors have said - the FG-42 was the basis for which many pre-modern and modern SAW's are designed.

To classify it as a rifle, and to limit its game functions to that of a rifle, is historicaly and technically inaccurate. If that's the case, you might as well classify the B.A.R., Bren, etc., as rifles as well - because they technically *could* be used that way, even if its not what they were primarily designed for.
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