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Xxzard -> RE: Lethality of MG 42 (6/21/2011 7:45:49 PM)
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I recently played through the old CC2 campaign, and there are a few points from it that seem relevant. Since I just reinstalled it on a new system, it was totally stock again.
-Mg42 3 man teams have 1250 rounds. They still run out of ammo quickly, but their lethality on open maps is extreme. Troops caught in the open or with only light cover within 90m of the mg are typically wiped out. With 1250 rounds, a single well placed team can determine the course of the battle. In buildings I haven't noticed quite the level of damage to a squad in cover that has been discussed here. At medium range, the squad being fired on often suffers one or two casualties, but the mg42 team cannot imo afford to waste ammunition in that manner.
-Rifles are mostly only useful for suppressing fire, as mentioned here. In decent cover at 80m, units can sit and wait until the rifle team firing at them runs out of ammo.
-Hand to hand combat and grenade usage is extremely important, and is necessary in almost every map. This presented some problems in the old game because the grenade and hand to hand combat models were a bit wonky. Grenades often killed whole squads, or missed entirely. Melee combat was always a bit mystifying, I had a 4 man reserve team annihilated by a single wounded bazooka man in hand to hand combat.
These characteristics greatly affect the way the campaign plays out and how one must play the battles to achieve the strategic objectives. As the Germans, a very well placed mg42 could dominate the entire map. On the other hand, the typically larger number of men in Allied squads gave them an edge in close combat, so if you could get close enough to the German unit, you could usually overwhelm it in a direct attack.
So from experience with the old game, it seems clear that any change to the Mg42 squad or its ammunition count will cause some pretty large shifts in game balance. Of course, I was personally pretty happy with how the old game was, even with its odd quirks, but I am quite looking forward to this game!
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