Rooftop MGs don’t do that. Coaxial machine guns do that. Rooftop MGs have absolutely nothing to do with the gun’s trajectory or bearing. The only reason they turn side to side is because the entire turret moves and their mount doesn’t. You don’t understand how the weapons work, this makes it abundantly clear.
This is why I said you don’t know anything about what vehicles have them. Germany starts to get rooftop MGs at rank 2. I mentioned 2 already that have them at rank 2, the Panzer 3M and Panzer 4H.
That means that US isn’t the only nation that can kill light vehicles with MGs. Stop trying to bend the truth because you’re ignorant about the vehicles.
There is, Warthunder was an aircraft only game and added ground mixed battles in later. Aircraft stayed in ground mode after testing without them and it made sense that tanks would have operable rooftop MGs for air defense. So there is a reason, you’re just ignorant.
No I want you to explain how disabling rooftop MGs isn’t the same as removing them from a gameplay perspective. You said yourself that you didn’t say you wanted them removed, but disabling them effectively removes them from gameplay.
Here is where you tried to deny that you said your point wasn’t removing the rooftop MGs. Disabling their use is removing them from a gameplay perspective.
This is cherrypicking. You’ve demonstrated exactly what I mentioned earlier.
Yeah, you can. You can kill the pilot or set the fuel tanks alight with incendiary ammunition from a rifle caliber MG. Most planes have no armor, except bulletproof glass on the front glass of the cockpit. The rest is usually structural steel to make up the planes fuselage and can be penetrated by rifle caliber MGs. The British Spitfires have variants that use 7.7mm MGs and 20mm cannons, with the cannons having very limited ammo, you have to rely on rifle caliber MGs to kill planes. It can and has been done.
My arguement to keep them operable is for AA use, use against lighty armored vehicles, and for disabling tracks/modules on other vehicles. They are a very useful weapons in game, taking them away would be removing a good feature. Disabling them would take alot of effort for the devs seeing that it would be removing them from 100s of vehicles. Your argument that the US is unbalanced because they use .50 cals has already been balanced out in the brs, and every other nation gets their own version of the 12.7mm HMGs at some point. In other places, they usually have a rifle caliber MG, which still serves the purposes mentioned above just fine.
