Why Are There STG-44s?

[Fear2288]

It’s strange, in various areas Relic seemed to try and make the game historically accurate in regards to units, factions, and tech…yet you’ve got German infantry running around with STG-44s?

The predecessor to it, the MP-43, wasn’t even put in the field until October 1943 (a month after the initial Allied invasion of Italy), and only in limited quantities on the Eastern Front.

The STG-44 on the other hand didn’t see combat use until mid/late 1944 and again really only on the Eastern Front, though a relatively small number made their way into the hands of Germans fighting in France.

It wasn’t until Eastern Front units were being redeployed to the West that the Allies started seeing them more often in late 1944/early 1945.

Odd

[bOOmPsychoDad#]

if you follow this rule there shouldnt be a black prince as well

[Lord Admiral Mormont]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StG_44

"In service 1943–1945 (Nazi Germany)"

[Fear2288]

Originally posted by Lord Admiral Mormont:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StG_44

"In service 1943–1945 (Nazi Germany)"

You need to actually read up on the weapon.

[Lord Admiral Mormont]

Originally posted by Fear2288:

Originally posted by Lord Admiral Mormont:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StG_44

"In service 1943–1945 (Nazi Germany)"

You need to actually read up on the weapon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXkpFajH66A

[Walt von Keisel-Walther]

Could just say its a Mkb-42, which was basically the predecessor to the MP-43,44 and STG-44

[Fear2288]

Originally posted by Lord Admiral Mormont:

Originally posted by Fear2288:

You need to actually read up on the weapon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXkpFajH66A

Wanna link me a YouTube video that states that Germany considered Italy to be the Eastern Front?

I’ll admit, I had actually never heard of the Mkb-42 before, yet reading up on it…it received field test use on the Eastern Front against the Russians.

To my knowledge, when a small arm is field tested it’s usually given out in very small quantities - perhaps to a handful of squads, or maybe even a single soldier within a handful of squads.

This is usually the case because the small arm may require ammo that isn’t in plentiful supply, the soldier(s) need to become accustomed to using it, and because…well, you don’t want to hand a prototype gun out en masse only to find out it doesn’t work under certain conditions.

As I understand it, the Mkb-42 and the MP-43 weren’t produced or distributed en masse. They were stepping stones on the road to developing the STG-44 and saw very limited use on the Eastern Front.

Is it possible that the Mkb-42 could’ve ended up in the hands of Germans fighting in North Africa or Italy?

Sure, but I haven’t come across any definitive proof that they did, and from the sounds of it - if they did it would’ve been a handful of them probably used by officers or the stray Eastern Front veteran who somehow ended up being redeployed.