MG42 Heavy Machine Gun

; MG42 Heavy Machine Gun Team
	; A MG42 team behind sandbags
Army	Wehrmacht Ostheer
Role	Support infantry
Men per Squad	4
Unit Cost	260; 6
Upkeep per Minute	-?
Produced By	Kampfgruppe Headquarters
Cost to Reinforce	22; 1
Health per Man	80
Basic Weapon	1x MG42; 3x MP40
Max. Speed	3 m/s
Abilities (2)
	Incendiary Armor Piercing Rounds Shortly increases damage and penetration to fight light armor.; Requires Veteran 1; Cost: 15; ; Sprint Increases movement speed for a short period of time.; Doctrinal ability; Cost: 10;

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The MG42 Heavy Machine Gun Team is the Ostheer anti-infantry unit. Once set up, the MG42's amazing rate of fire can rapidly suppress infantry within its arc of fire. 1200 rounds per minute causes all but the very foolhardy to hug the dirt.

Overview

The MG42 team is available at the Headquarters from the start of the game. Compared to the Soviet Maxim HMG, the MG42 takes longer to deploy and undeploy but has a much wider firing arc, making it harder to outflank.

Abilities

Incendiary Armor Piercing Rounds

Requires Veteran 1
Cost 15 15 to activate
Duration: 30 seconds
Cooldown: 20 seconds

After reaching veteran 1 the HMG team gets acces to the Incendiary Armor Piercing Rounds. As the name implies, this is a two-fold upgrade to it damage output: its damage increases by 100% and has +9 penetration. When activated the team begins a new reload cycle (that is 50% faster than a normal cycle) to load the new rounds.

The extra damage makes short work of any infantry that gets hit, even when suppressed. Its armor piercing rounds are a good way to deter enemy light vehicles. A light vehicle is easily killed when the HMG can get multiple burst off. The health of medium and heavy vehicles is generally too high to make this weapon a threat to them.

Sprint

Requires the Encirclement Doctrine.
Cost 10 10 to activate
Duration: 5 seconds
Cooldown: 35 seconds

The Sprint ability gives all infantry (including Snipers, Mortar teams and the MG 42 Heavy Machine Gun team) the possibility to move very quickly for a short period of time. Infantry squads can use this to dodge artillery or set up a flanking move. Likewise, weapon teams or snipers can use this to get out of harms way.

Veterancy

	Level 1 Veterancy: Unlock the 'Incendiary Armor Piercing Rounds' veteran ability.
	Level 2 Veterancy: +20% suppression +30% weapon rotation speed
	Level 3 Veterancy: +30% accuracy +20% burst rate of fire +10% weapon rotation speed