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Because Machine Guns receive a significant damage bonus against infantry, they are best applied in defense against massed units. They are especially useful against units from earlier ages, and a small number of Machine Guns can hold off a much larger swarm of Enlightenment or Gunpowder Era units.
Machine Guns are easily countered by Armored units like Light Tanks and Armored Cars. Without Armored Industrial Age units, a technologically-inferior nation can counter Machine Guns with armed Ranged Cavalry and Heavy Cavalry.