Unnecessary Micro for MG Gunner and MG Assistant.

[Mocco]

Within an Infantry squad you find mostly one MG Gunner and a MG-Assistant. That guy is carrying extra Ammunition for the MG. The MG gunner is able to carry all the ammo from the assistant as well. So in the beginning of their deployment i give all the ammo from the assistant to the gunner directly. My question is this. Does the assistant give the gunner the munition automatically or not? If he does I would love to save myself the Micro Mgmt.

[LeiLaGorIlla]

Mg assistant gives ammo when mg is completely out, but only when you reform squad. It only gives enough ammo for one reload.

[KapitanSWAT]

How the system works is that:
If both of them are in the same squad and close enough (20 meters I think?) to each other, they'll auto-share the ammo as needed - so only if the MG guy runs out of ammo

[Ch53dVet]

Yes, they will re-supply the gunner, however, those 2 units, when they spawn into the game, are, most of the time, from my experience, not positioned side by side in the squad and I do not know if the gunner gets fed ammo from his assistant if they are not adjacent to one another.

I always reposition them to be together whenever that squad type is born into the game, plus, after the assistant feeds the gunner all his ammo the assistant will not get re-supplied with mg ammo when he visits a supply truck or crate.

It's, probably, a whole lot easier to strip off all the ammo from the assistant and give it to the mg then load up the assistant with rifle ammo grenades and bandages, then send him on his way to do his own thing.

[JE55BUNN1]

To fully max this system out, you can raid boxed MG ammo from armoured cars and fully stock up your gunner and assistant.

I tend to have others in the squad carry a box or two of ammo for the MG as well, using the above method to gain ammo.

Often I'll give the assistant a semi-auto rifle or submachine gun so they can be easily identified.

[Phaiyah]

Originally posted by JE55BUNN1:

To fully max this system out, you can raid boxed MG ammo from armoured cars and fully stock up your gunner and assistant.

I tend to have others in the squad carry a box or two of ammo for the MG as well, using the above method to gain ammo.

Often I'll give the assistant a semi-auto rifle or submachine gun so they can be easily identified.

Why bother micromanaging semis and subs? If you can be bothered, just give them all MGs. Esp the mg assistant who spawns with the correct ammo. Take the MGs from any MG operator or vehicles/lafettes. Just remember to re-equip the vehicle/lafette mgs when u get into the next game.

But honestly... don't really need to do this micro work. Your vehicles and guns will do all the killing anyway. Infantry just need to be 375hp bodies to spread out in front.