MG-34

The MG-34 is a German machine gun used in World War 2.

History
In World War 1, every war partie was developing their own machine gun, most were water-cooled ones. The German Reichswehr mostly used the M-08/15 and later the MG-13. During this, a Rheinmetall contructor called Louis Stange was given the task to develope the predecessor of the MG-34, the MG-15. From 1937 the MG-34 main version was given to the Wehrmacht and used until the end of war. In later war time it was replaced by the higher-effective MG-42 which had a larger fire rating among other changes.

In Game
As it was in real life, the MG-34 was mounted on nearly all Wehrmacht vehicles, even when the MG-42 was already in use by the infantry and later tank models.

German infantry fight squads have one man equiped MG-34. This soldier has the highest fire power of all squad members and holds the defensive back cover for any squad action. This is the reason why this unit is the most important one in every german goup of soldiers. Also in trench war, the MG-34 is much more effective than the BAR machine gun because of its high ammo carriage capacity and in rush tactics its high mobility (its weight is very less than the weight of i.e. a Browning MG).