IS-7 has 8 machinguns, can fire them all
Meanwhile…
KV-2, has a hull machine gun with a gunner sitting behind it, can’t fire the machine gun as the gunner is there serving as a spare body
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You don’t use the 7.62 to kill another armored vehicle, it still can kill the crews of opened-top vehicles, it’s mostly used as a marking mechanism to reveal enemy position bro
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How would you control the MG that is fixed away from the main gun like those that are mounted on the turret in Japanese tanks? Turn your freecam in that general direction?
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There is an option to control individual guns, so if you would press the correct key you would use that mg as the main gun.
What VenomThanos said, also extra guns to deal with aircraft and exposed crew. They objectively would not be totally pointless, but I understand why you aren’t specifically waiting for it to happen. One of the fixed MG’s in a low-tier US tank actually saved me from a pizza car with a 20mm gun once.
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Was the lower gun a .50 cal. Cause if it wasn’t it really shouldn’t have, however, if it did neato.
It was a hull-mounted and fixed .30 cal. And it saved me because the pizza car has no armor.
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They make temperature effect how you gun/plane performs, yet they refuse to model the additional machine guns.
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I agree this should have been finished long ago.
look around till you can fire them its a really basic thing
Mmm, I see, but that’d require you to unman your main guns…and most of these side guns aren’t really strong enough to warrant a dedicated switching of focus like that…
Especially in low tier, there are situations where you suddenly find someone who was hiding and waiting behind you. And if it’s a soft target then an MG in the back of your turret can save you, this is more common than you think. Also, it doesn’t harm anything or anyone to add it. So far I haven’t heard a valid argument against it yet.
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Useless when it comes to damaging tanks, but tanks aren’t the only ground vehicles. There’s plenty of open-top vehicles and outright unarmored AA trucks that a rifle caliber MG very much can be effective against. If the hull MG is there and has a gunner manning it, it might as well be usable.
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M13/40 have 4 machine guns and can fire only two. A depressed gunner sit behind the two non functional machine-guns. Same for M14 and M15.
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The hull MG’s would serve little purpose that the Turret MG cannot do.
The turret could be knocked out, and it’s also simply more firepower which is welcome against planes especially.
If you’re using a tank to fight planes then I’m sorry you should go back to the tutorial.
Leave Planes to SPAA. Or your roof top .50 cal.
Oh no, this isn’t a point against the idea of using all MG available, I just don’t know about leaving your main gun unmanned so you can spray, I dunno, 7.7mms that is largely ineffective against anything that isn’t just a guy standing in the open. If I can keep the main gun manned while using the off-axis guns on the fly, it’d be pretty nifty.
MGs are perfect at clearing bushes. if you ever played seversk-13 we all know the C point has many bushes that are really annoying
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…Their also good at getting yourself spotted by an enemy tank several killicks away.