Best Machine-GUn of WW2? (As a GPMG)

[Seeme]

Me, .50 call is way better, it could blow up light tanks.

[GodlikeDennis]

Played Day of Defeat:Source today for the first time in 2 years and remembered the awesomeness of MG42s. In other news, exams suck.

Yes I'm bored.

[Akalonor]

Im the only one I know without Call of Duty Black ops  D:
@Seeme, What happens when the infantry wave comes ? Thats right , you die from low RoF

[SK8ERatWAR]

Im the only one I know without Call of Duty Black ops  D:

I don't have it either
yet.. ^^
but seeing the footage put up yesterday, it seems it will be a noob, camp, knife fest.. so i don't know if it's even worth buying.. better play coh or battlefield bad company 2 Vietnam when it comes out =D

[Seeme]

Its just going to be another Modern Warfare with some new cheesy features to steal no-lifers money because they beat the other games 100 million times.

[GodlikeDennis]

I'm gonna buy it after exams. I'm hoping it's a return to the quality of WaW and CoD4 and not a disgusting piece of shit like MW2.

[Red_Stinger]

Im the only one I know without Call of Duty Black ops  D:

I don't have it either
yet.. ^^
but seeing the footage put up yesterday, it seems it will be a noob, camp, knife fest.. so i don't know if it's even worth buying.. better play coh or battlefield bad company 2 Vietnam when it comes out =D

I dont have it either ^^"
Like GodlikeDennis I have exams and I want to have something really fun to play, not like MW2. And anyway, I am now playing RO for a while, which is incredibly funnier than COD. I am waiting for RO2, hope its not a crap casual game for playstation and others xbox...

[Seeme]

I want to Get RO, but I don't know where to get it.

Anyway we are going off-topic and blackbishop loves closing things like this.

[Desert_Fox]

I want to Get RO, but I don't know where to get it.

Anyway we are going off-topic and blackbishop loves closing things like this.

You can find it on Steam at 9.99 € at the moment.
I also play at RO...c u online 

SORRY FOR OT

[maxi1991]

RO is probably the best Shooter around right now. Nice mix of Realism and gameplay.

[Newbie.]

Ahem , B1 battle droids have blastere  rifles and OOM-9 was an AAT commander , so enjoy napalm missles !

Meh, B-1's suck. I was one in a Star wars roleplay.
Problem is every person chooses Jedi or Sith, so you get pretty f'd.

[Paciat]

Wasn't the FG42 produced for the invasion of Crete when Germany declared war on Greece? That was early in the war.

No. German paras jumped out of the plane with pistols only! and picked other weapons from supply drops.

[Werwolf]

Wasn't the FG42 produced for the invasion of Crete when Germany declared war on Greece? That was early in the war.

No. German paras jumped out of the plane with pistols only! and picked other weapons from supply drops.

...which, due to "genius" strategic planning, often landed far from the DZs and into the welcoming arms of local partisans (the crates usually contained extra ammo, supplies, rifles and support weapons such as MGs and mortars).  These were during the earlier stages.

The FG42 was actually conceived some time later (after Crete) as the need for a lightweight selective-fire weapon firing a larger cartridge with better stopping power compared to the MP40's 9mm Parabellum round arose. They were purposefully designed to be light enough so that they could be lugged around easily and carried as personal weapons by the paratroopers during a "jump", without having them dropped in special munitions crates (a rather practical request made by Göring). So, in a sense, it was also intended as a "universal replacement" for the various standard infantry firearms which the Fallschirmjägers used in Crete. However, I wouldn't recommend firing it full-auto from the hip, I tried doing that once in a re-enactment and received a crapload of bruises as a result. The bipod is there for a very good reason.

[komajiro55]

 

[Tampio]

Well, you can't say what's the ''Best'' Machinegun. Every machinegun were good on their own roles, with their own tactics.

MG34 and MG42 were both very good multi-purpose machineguns, but you can't forget stuff like Bren, which was light, accurate, didn't overheat so it didn't need changeable barrel like the MG42 (and sometimes MG34) needed and also it is more faster to reload a 30 cartridge mag into the weapon.