If you were a soldier in Saving Private Ryan/Band of Brothers, what would you choose as your primary weapon? Me...

If you were a soldier in Saving Private Ryan/Band of Brothers, what would you choose as your primary weapon? Me, I'd try to find an MP40 off a dead German. Best gun in Call of Duty: World at War.

AK-47

A phased-plasma rifle in the 40-watt range

Hey, just what you see, pal.

Cant wait till summer ends

Me too, when do you go back to school?

Whatever SMG. They're all roughly comparable. Thompson would probably suit me because the weight doesn't bother me and I like that it renders recoil virtually non-existent.

Rifles are a meme weapon. 99% percent of your engagements are happening at relatively close range and volume trumps accuracy.

BAR is an even bigger meme weapon and wasn't good for any of the things it was designed to do.

Anything other than a sub-machine gun is an objectively incorrect answer, given their performance in the time period.

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MP40 would allow almost unlimited ammo from the fallen Germans however you'd look like an asshole using the enemies gun

M1917 Enfield
Why?
I'd get it because it was early standard issue and I'm not that special. Be glad you get a rifle soldier and you don't have to fling you're own shit at the enemy.

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it's no coincidence that the mp40 was so dominant in COD:WAW

Thanks for the serious answer. I guess that's why all the officers/lieutenants had Thompsons.

M1 Carbine

The M1 Garand is a Majestous creature, but that iconic "Ping" is a total tactical disadvantage

Also everyone learns very quickly what individual weapons sound like, and if you're running around near your buddies, but out of sight, and firing an enemy weapon, then chances are you're going down to friendly fire. There's a reason they didn't allow grunts to actually use enemy weapons.

the ping isn't easy to hear irl. it happens only a fractoin of a second after you fire the relatively loud rifle.

I'm your sniper, providing crushing coverage from behind your back. Every time. If you'd rather have volume over my accuracy, prepare to die, because my contributions are utterly invaluable. I'll be over here, watching over you while you sleep.

>but that iconic "Ping" is a total tactical disadvantage

No it wasn't. Earplugs were rarely issued and almost never worn in WW2, everyone was deaf after the first shot they fired. You were lucky if you could hear the ping of your own rifle, nevermind Hans across the street.

Oh shit makes sense. Reminds me of Heartbreak Ridge.

This is the AK-47 assault rifle, the preferred weapon of your enemy; and it makes a distinctive sound when fired at you, so remember it.

- Gunny Highway

M1 Carbine (solid stock)

.30 cal, I'm going out Audie Murphy style

Hand held Browning machine gun.

Patrician.

"Be advised, I am mean, nasty, and tired. I eat concertina wire and piss napalm, and I can put a round in a flea's ass at a hundred meters. So why don't you go hump somebody else's leg, mud face, before I push yours in."

-Gunny Highway

Garand, literally my gunfu.

Probably useless if I got bumrushed at close range but longer range it'd be satisfying as fuck.

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>people picking anything other than the MG-42

If I was forced in the front lines I would use a Garand, no question.

It was by far the most versatile and functional small-arm of WWII.

Why? Not enough bane posting?

>posting a meme tank

ITT: nogunz

Probably whatever they issued me.

I thought it was interesting that War Daddy lugged an MP44 around with him in Fury. A solid weapon to be sure, and it looks sexy, but I surely it would be far too big and clunky for a tankman to hang onto.

>the relatively loud rifle

By "relatively loud" you mean "deafeningly, painfully fucking loud" right?

One round of .30-06 will make you hear almost nothing but
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
for a couple hours, let alone what the hundreds of rounds you and your friends are firing will do to your hearing. No one is ever going to hear the ping sound, least of all the Germans or Japs a few hundred feet away.

Why would he even bother taking a submachine gun with him inside a tank?

>a submachine gun
It's an assault rifle user, but American tankers actually kept an M3 SMG - the famous grease gun - in their tanks for close protection, in case they had to bail out under fire.

the guys with the Thompson always get lots of kills

To be fair guns IRL are rarely what movies make them out to be.

Kar98k

>It's an assault rifle user, but American tankers actually kept an M3 SMG - the famous grease gun - in their tanks for close protection, in case they had to bail out under fire.

Huh, that seems weird. If your tank was fucked it seems like you'd be in a situation where you were pretty much toast anyway. Carrying around big firearms inside seems like they would just get in the way and be a pain in the ass.

Dual RCP-90s and proximity mines

>put this guy in charge of the army
>enemy moves more than 10m away
>the entire US army gets slaughtered

fucking idiot. sub-machine guns are worthless on a modern battlefield outside of specialized forces

STG44 was the best WW2 weapon by far.

We carried M-4's in our tanks, but our main weapon was an M9. And there's even less space in an Abrams

Pretty good gun in COD4

The grease gun was nice and small, a much better fit in a tank than the bloody MP44. I understand US tankers still had them in their vehicles up until the First Gulf War.

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That one U.S. shotgun the Germans got butthurt about.

Duel-wielded BARs

just eat my ammo up senpai

Comrades when shot glorious PPSh you never finish ammunition for socialist drum magazine promise endless killing of fascists

A Liberator pistol, they won't know what hit them

>they won't know what hit them
why not go full OSS?

lolbasedaf but doomed to die first.

This.
Is best for fighting in morning and sit with Tovarish at afternoon to drink vodka.

So if I were an actor in a movie what weapon would I want to carry around the set all day?

The lightest one.

BASED.

That was World War One

Here are my papers unteroffizier, don't mind my one giant glove

Fuck, I knew something sounded wrong about that.

OP didn't specify that the guns had to be military issued firearms.

The Germans were complaining about shotguns as being inhumane during World War One

>Be Waffen SS
>Chilling in a ditch in a fortified position
>Ohshit gunfire
>See like thirty Allied soldiers all shooting at us
>Fucking hell this is loud
>We fire back
>All 30 of us
>Ah fuck my ears
>MG-42 opens up
>They hit back with a .30 cal
>The very concept of sound and noise has been superseded by the sound of fuckloud guns
>The entire physical world is gunfire
>Despite the sound and fury signifying the horrifying might of industrialized warfare, I somehow hear a *ping* a hundred yards away
>Now's my chance!
>Charge
>The Allied Browning shoots out my knees
>I die of blood loss cursing my knees for being a quarter Jewish

FG42

I mean yeah, that's pretty fucking cool. You know, until your pistols falls apart after 8 shots.

Yeah man, cause all of Europe was urban warfare and there wasn't a single engagement in the entire war that was beyond a range of 50 meters.

Life is a video game, duh

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>Yeah man, cause all of Europe was urban warfare and there wasn't a single engagement in the entire war that was beyond a range of 50 meters.

You just have to aim higher or get one that had the adjustable sights, also the effective firing range was somewhat around 150 meters

Yes, but what about the killing potential at that range? It'd be like slinging pebbles at your enemies.

I think the best strategy is to use the Overkill perk, so that you can carry two primary weapons. I'd go sniper rifle and SMG.

>Yes, but what about the killing potential at that range? It'd be like slinging pebbles at your enemies.

.45 ACP will kill or severely injure you at 150 meters.

this guy gets it.

I'm going for the DMR and the Sniper Rifle. cut you down running from across the map.