The machine gun is not a defensive weapon. The machine gun is weapon for suppressing the enemy in both offensive and defensive situations. Learn to use the machine gun to hold off the enemy so that your team can advance.

Try to deploy the machine gun while the enemy is distracted or is unaware of your presence. If you cannot, you can still deploy the machine gun quicklyby pressing your secondary fire button and then holding down your primary fire button. Familiarize yourself with the deployment time.

When you deploy, remember that you have a limited field of fire once deployed. Be sure that you aim at the center of your desired field of fire when you hit your secondary fire button. Also, be sure to learn the limits your field of fire.

The machine gun is not useless while undeployed, either. If you stop, crouch, and control the recoil, you can kill enemies at short range. With the MG42, it may help to fire in bursts so that you can readjust your aim. It is possible to lone wolf with a machine gun, if you are sneaky enough and the enemy team is dumb enough, but remember that your accuracy decreases greatly with range.

Keep in mind that the machine guns can shoot through walls. If you know where an enemy is behind a wall, kill him.

Reloading the machine gun takes about six seconds, during which time you are vulnerable. You cannot undeploy in the middle of a reload, so you may want to hide to reload. But if you do that, you will not be able to see the area you were covering, so be prepared when you redeploy.

The Anti Guide contains contradictions. You cannot follow the given advice blindly because you must decide when one action is more appropriate than an opposing action. In order to make that decision intelligently, you must understand the motivations behind each piece of advice. Only an intelligent team can guarantee victory.

Appendix A: Maps

To be as effective as possible, you need to know the intricacies of every single map. You can do this by playing all the maps and exploring, as well as starting up your own server to explore the maps as a spectator.

Anzio

Objective: Control all five flags

Flags
No.	Name	Type	Time to capture
1	the Laundry	Instant	0
2	the Bridge	Team 2	3 s
3	the Street	Instant	0
4	the Plaza	Team 2	3 s
5	the Hill	Instant	0

Tick period: 20 seconds

This is a small map. The Axis will die if they enter the Allied beach.

Avalanche

Objective: Control all five flags

Flags
No.	Name	Type	Time to capture
1	the Allied street	Team 2 / Area	1 s / 1 s
2	the Allied gun position	Area	3 s
3	the market	Team 2	5 s
4	the Axis gun position	Area	3 s
5	the Axis street	Team 2 / Area	1 s / 1 s

Tick period: 20 seconds

The Allies initially control flags 1 and 2, and the Axis control flags 4 and 5. Once the Axis team capture flag 1, the Allies can recapture it as an area capture flag. The same applies for flag 5 with the roles reversed.

Caen 2

Objective: Control all six flags

Flags
No.	Name	Type	Time to capture
1	Allied Street	Instant	0
2	Allied Bunker	Instant	0
3	Allied Plaza	Instant	0
4	Axis Plaza	Instant	0
5	Axis Bunker	Instant	0
6	Axis Street	Instant	0

Tick period: 20 seconds

TNT can be used to open up side streets and put holes in walls in certain spots (where the wall is cracked). This map is relatively symmetrical. If you enter the enemy spawn area, you'll be sent to spawn camper jail, which you can break out of with TNT.

Cherbourg

Objective: Control all six flags

Flags
No.	Name	Type	Time to capture
1	cafe corner	Instant	0
2	germans outpost	Instant	0
3	underpass	Team 2	5 s
4	courtyard	Instant	0
5	hotel lobby	Instant	0
6	main street	Instant	0

Tick period: 30 seconds

Glider

Allied objective: Destroy either the two 88mm flak cannons or the radio room
Axis objective: Prevent Allied forces from destroying the two 88mm flak cannons and the radio room

Objectives
No.	Name	Type	Time to destroy
1	southernmost 88 cannon	Area, requires demolition pack	5 s
2	northernmost 88 cannon	Area, requires demolition pack	5 s
3	OR	Not a real objective	N/A
4	radio room	Area, requires demolition pack	7 s

Scoring
Victors	Victory for	Points
Allies	Objective	25
Allies	Elimination	50
Axis	Objective	25
Axis	Elimination	50

Round time: 4:00

This is a paratrooper map where everyone gets only one life, so try not to die. To reach the radio room, the Allies must also blow a hole in the castle wall with TNT. There are two spots on the castle where the Allies can do this: one spot up a ladder and the other on ground level near a metal gate that only the Axis can open. Look for wooden planks holding up the wall.

Hedgerow

Allied objective: Destroy the two 88mm flak cannons
Axis objective: Defend the two 88mm flak cannons

Objectives
No.	Name	Type	Time to destroy
1	88 #2	Area, requires TNT	5 s
2	88 #1	Area, requires TNT	5 s

Scoring
Victors	Victory for	Points
Allies	Objective	20
Allies	Elimination	10
Axis	Objective	10
Axis	Elimination	30

Round time: 4:00

This is a paratrooper map where everyone gets only one life, so try not to die. Along the hedges are vegetation which you can hide behind, giving the Axis defenders a huge advantage. And yes, the 88 #2 and 88 #1 really are backwards names.

Heutau

Objective: Control all five flags

Flags
No.	Name	Type	Time to capture
1	Sankt Oswald	Instant	0
2	Residence	Instant	0
3	von Effektor Platz	Instant	0
4	Heutauerstrass 15	Instant	0
5	That Wierd [sic] House	Instant	0

Tick period: 20 seconds

Whoever holds the von Effector Platz flag spawns closer.

Koln

Objective: Control all six flags

Flags
No.	Name	Type	Time to capture
1	Outdoor Factory	Instant	0
2	Three Tank Zone	Instant	0
3	Third Story Sniper Loft	Instant	0
4	Railway	Team 2	5 s
5	Railway Arch Entrance	Instant	0
6	Mid Alley	Instant	0

Kraftstoff

Allied objective: Prevent Axis forces from capturing either of the two fuel trucks
Axis objective: Capture one of the fuel trucks

Flags
No.	Name	Type	Time to capture
1	eastern fuel truck	Team 2 / Area (one Axis alive)	10 s / 20 s
2	western fuel truck	Team 2 / Area (one Axis alive)	10 s / 20 s

Scoring
Victors	Victory for	Points
Allies	Objective	10
Allies	Elimination	20
Axis	Objective	20
Axis	Elimination	30

Round time: 4:00

This is a paratrooper map where everyone gets only one life, so try not to die. If there is only one Axis player left, then he can capture a fuel truck by himself, although it will take him twice as long

Overlord

Allied objective: Capture three flags near the beach, then two flags farther from the beach
Axis objective: Defend the flags for 30 minutes

Flags
No.	Name	Type	Time to capture
1	Area 1	Team 2	5 s
2	Area 2	Team 2	5 s
3	Area 3	Team 2	5 s
4	Area 4	Team 2	5 s
5	Area 5	Team 2	5 s

Tick period: 15 seconds
Round time: 20:00

There is one bangalore (a long green pipe) on the beach. Bring it to the barbed wire where the sand is darker. Once a flag is captured by the Allies, the Axis cannot recapture the flag back. The Axis should not try to go into the beach, because then they will instantly die. Nor can the Allies enter the grey bunkers or the two sandbag machine gun nests closest to the beach.

Ramelle

Objective: Control all five flags

Flags
No.	Name	Type	Time to capture
1	The Fields	Instant	0
2	Allied street	Instant	0
3	Bridge	Area	5 s
4	The stronghold	Instant	0
5	Church Square	Instant	0

Tick period: 30 seconds

The Bridge is periodically bombed. You can hear the air strikes come in, so wait for one before running across the bridge.

Schwetz

Attackers' objective: To capture all the flags
Defenders' objective: To prevent the attackers from capturing flags

Flags
No.	Name	Type	Time to capture
1	Bridge	Team 3	5 s
2	Stucco House	Area	10 s
3	Apartments	Team 2	7 s
4	Town Square	Team 2	5 s
5	Inn	Area	5 s

Tick period: None
Round time: 15:00

Once a flag has been captured, it cannot be recaptured. The Town Square flag is easy to defend because the flag capture area is spread over two rooms.

Both sides alternate attacking and defending.

Thunder

Objective: Control all five flags

Flags
No.	Name	Type	Time to capture
1	Allied HQ	Instant	0
2	Allied Street	Instant	0
3	main street	Team 2	15 s
4	Axis street	Instant	0
5	Axis HQ	Instant	0

Tick period: 20 seconds

Zafod

Objective: Control all five flags

Flags
No.	Name	Type	Time to capture
1	allied base	Instant	0
2	bombed church	Instant	0
3	Bridge	Team 2	5 s
4	the small church	Instant	0
5	axis base	Instant	0

Tick period: 20 seconds

Whoever controls the bridge flag spawns closer. That makes the bridge the most important flag in this map. At the start of a round, as an Ally, you can reach the bridge first. As an Axis, you must prevent the Allies from taking control of the bridge (or if the Allies are stupid, take the bridge). You'll die if you enter the enemy spawn area.