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Heavy Machine Gun

The MG42 is the unique German machine gun unit of the Modern Age Modern Age that replaces the standard Heavy Machine Gun.

Overview[]

Compared to the Heavy Machine Gun, the MG42 are statistically identical, except that they do +30% damage against all infantry units. Due to this, it actually deals more DPS than the Advanced Machine Gun despite being available sooner.

Because of how the attacks of machine gun units function -- where each attack salvo is a prolonged sequence of individual projectiles -- the higher damage has almost no impact on the MG42's ability to kill multiple targets more quickly than a Heavy Machine Gun. Even though each individual target dies somewhat more quickly, the target dies in one attack salvo regardless of the damage bonus, and therefore killing a target requires the same number of attacks. A faster kill time on each individual target does not translate into more targets killed due to machine gun units having a high attack recharge (slow attack speed).

Even if attacking the toughest infantry units in the game (the age-higher Anti-Tank Missile and Dragon AT Missile) -- and if these infantry are given a +10 armor bonus from a fully upgraded Comrade -- a Heavy Machine Gun is still able to kill each individual sub-unit (soldier) in a single attack, thus almost entirely negating the entire benefit of the MG42's damage bonus.

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