[L.T. Russell]

I can’t speak to the “app”, John.  I’m just an old flip-phone guy….

[L.T. Russell]

Howdy Nat!  My contention is that LMGs are belt-fed.  A BREN is magazine-fed…

A LMG has a crew of 2, is belt-fed, is air-cooled, is fired from a bipod.  An MMG has a crew of 3, is belt-fed, is fired from a tripod. Some WWII MMGs were water-cooled.  LMGs and MMGs fire rifle caliber ammo.  An HMG fires a much heavier cartridge, something in the .50 caliber/12.7mm range….

An automatic rifleman can be given a loader and now they’re a “team”, but their weapon is still not an LMG ’cause it’s not belt-fed….

I don’t know what game you’re playing, but all the campaign books I bought are historically-based and all the individuals described are actual historical figures….

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Howdy John!  I think the idea is that the Partisans are using armor they captured from the Germans.  I doubt either the US, Canadian or British militaries were handing over any tanks to Partisans.  Just one guy’s $.02….

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Howdy Mike!  This is just based on my experience as a light infantryman.  Generally speaking, LMG teams don’t move around by themselves, they’re usually attached to some other unit; either attached to a squad to beef up a squad-level mission, or with the other LMG team and a fire team for security as part of the support element in a platoon-sized operation.  Generally speaking, the patrol leader doesn’t move with/direct the fire of the gun teams.  The leader moves with the maneuver element.  Usually the assistant patrol leader/platoon sergeant directs the support element’s fires.  IDK why Warlord Games doesn’t allow LMG teams as an independent element, there ARE every other kinda teams; AT rifle teams, flamethrower teams, MMG teams, etc, etc.  Then again, I’ll fall back on my usual arguments; A) In WWII, the Germans were the only army with an ACTUAL LMG, everyone else was using an automatic rifle, except for the few US units that had the 1919A6 Brownings. B) I content that most a the game designers at Warlord don’t actually know squat about firearms.  One guys $.02….

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Howdy Darin, John!

Yeah, I just checked my Armies of Great Britain 3rd Edition, and there’s no listings for any of the other Commonwealth nations.  I “assume” this will be coming later or perhaps is out on a PDF….

 

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NICE stuff, Jim!  I don’t model anymore.  I was out of gaming for nearly 30 years, so I don’t have paints, brushes, etc. anymore, and my eyesight is fading with age.  These days I pay the talented ones to produce my gaming gear.  I’ve picked up sprues, stowage kits and bits and send them along with models to my guy, Dustin, in TN.  Generic minis and models are so boring.  I’d add some pictures, but I’m pretty tech-illiterate….

 

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Howdy Bob!  I agree with the idea of fielding the experimental models.  As a German player, I’d like to use the Katchen, an APC version of the Hetzer, the Kugelblitz, and the upgraded Ostwind/Wirbelwind; twin 50mm autocannons in a turret on a Panther chassis….

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Makes sense to me, Caleb….

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No problem, Bob.  I complain a bit about firearms, ’cause I’m under the impression that pretty much no one at Warlord Games seems to know how they actually work.  IMO, these errors seem to always benefit the Allied players, at the expense of the German players.  One of my contentions is that magazine-fed guns, like the BREN, Lewis, ZB26, Nambu, are not actual LMGs, like the MG34 and/or 42, even if used in that role.  They’re not belt-fed, so they’re automatic rifles, like the BAR….

Good gaming to you, mate!

 

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Howdy Bob!

If you look close, you’ll see my initial post was from two years ago, referring to Konflikt Version 1.  Yeah, IMO, it’s gotten totally out-of-hand in Version 2.0.  Now all these countries that never even had a real belt-fed LMG in WWII suddenly have one on every single armored suit.  And there’s a buncha special exceptions so now the one man with an LMG attached to his arm can somehow do the work of two, and still somehow fire at max-effective range, without a tripod or a T&E device.  The British robots are the most ridiculous.  One robot doing the work of a three or four man crew.  The Lancer is the most broken.  Somehow this one robot is doing the work of 12 men.  My Warlord Gaming group refers to them as the Cheaty British….

 

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Howdy Mike!

IIRC, some of the Version 2.0 scenario books have provisions for playing “Special” characters/historical figures.  IDK if this was deliberate on Warlord Games part to link the miniatures with the game, but it seems like it.  I’d imagine it’s the same idea behind the KELLY’S HEROES models and miniatures.  Just one guy’s $.02….

 

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Howdy Jeff!

Warlord Games is a British company.  IMO, it’s just all part of standard policy to screw the German player, in favor of the Allies, particularly the British.  Why did the cost of a Panzerfaust go from 5 to 15?  Why do certain Russian units get to have Panzerfausts, they didn’t produce them?  What happened to “Tiger Fear”?  Why is the FG42, the automatic rifle of the Fallschirmjaeger considered an assault rifle?  Why are the MG34/42s, the ONLY actual LMGs in WWII, only given one extra hit die, when they have ROFs sometimes twice to three times higher that the automatic rifles the allies are using as LMGs?  Why did the US M2 HMG, one of the slowest firing MGs in WWII, suddenly become the fastest firing MG in the game?

You wanna see a real mess?  Take a look at firearms in the new Konflikt 47 2.0.  It’s seems kinda obvious to me that none of the designers at Warlord Games have any actual experience with firearms in general, nor bother consulting with anyone who does….

 

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Howdy harryb!  NICE photos!  I’m really impressed with your set-up….

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Howdy John!

Here’s a couple that I have;

Osprey Raid series;  BEHIND SOVIET LINES  Hitler’s Brandenburgers capture the Maikop Oilfields 1942, by David R. Higgins

Images of War series;  BRANDENBURGER  Wartime Photographs of Wilhelm Walther, by Anthony Rogers

 

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Ah, so basically you just wanna be silly/argumentative.  Who cares about “fire 5 mags full auto and see which one still shoots without cooking off”?  Who cares how long the barrel is?  That has absolutely nothing to do with the simple defining characteristics that determine an automatic rifle.  Probably the best automatic rifle made for any kind a “sustained automatic fire” was the BREN….and maybe variations, because they had an easily changeable barrel.  But they’re all still just automatic rifles.  For real “sustained automatic fire” you want an actual belt-fed machinegun….

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