Game Tips: The MP44 is a good weapon all-around.  It’s accuracy is slightly better than the SMG’s, so can be used at both long and short range.

FG42 Paratroop Rifle

Operation: Automatic Caliber: 8mm Mauser Capacity: 20 round box magazine Weight: 9.9 lbs Damage: Heavy     Accuracy: Medium  Recoil: Extremely Heavy

The Fallschrimjaeger Gewhr 42 is NOT a rookie's weapon; Its large round and short barrel make this weapon kick harder than a mule. On the upside, it is a CQB master, and has a decent 20-round clip. It also comes in two flavors: with a bipod, so you can use it like an MG, or a scope, so you can use it as a sniping weapon -- be warned: you gain no accuracy bonuses with the scope up like a true sniper rifle does, and your RoF is reduced. If anything, scope in to report enemy activity, and keep your target dead center, and even then, hitting him is not guaranteed.

You can see that if you fire the FG42, it will kick at least an inch upward. If you intend to use this weapon, pull your mouse up; you will be dragging it downward to compensate for the kick. At distance, fire this thing like a Kar: Crouch down, pull the trigger, compensate, repeat. Burst fire at distance is just wasting ammo.

Mid and short range is more up the FG42's alley. Burst your shots in pairs or triplets, advance on the enemy, and, when close enough, unload on him. Reload, rinse, repeat.

Game Tips: The FG42 is fairly useless at long range unless your bipod is deployed.  Otherwise, the weapon is great for close-in work.

FG42 Paratroop Rifle - Scoped

Operation: Automatic Caliber: 8mm Mauser Capacity: 20 round box magazine Weight: 9.9 lbs Damage: Heavy     Accuracy: Medium  Recoil: Extremely Heavy

This weapon is identical to the previous FG42 except that it sports a scope rather than a bipod. 

Game Tips: The FG42’s scope does not grant a huge bonus in accuracy like other sniper rifles – however, it does allow you to see the target area much more clearly.

Mauser Karbiner 98k Sniper Rifle

Operation: Bolt-action Caliber: 8mm Mauser Capacity: 5 round stripper clip Weight: 11 lbs Damage: Heavy Accuracy: Great Recoil: Heavy

The standard german infantryman’s weapon was easily adapted as a sniper rifle with a simple "High Turret” scope attachment. 

This versatility was one of the reason’s the K98’s service life was so long.

Game Tips: Crouching and laying on the ground will help eliminate the ‘sway’ encountered while zoomed in.  Standing and firing is very difficult with this weapon.

MG34 Machine Gun

Operation: Belt-fed, automatic Caliber: 8mm Mauser Capacity: 75 round ‘assault’ drum Weight: 26.6 lbs Damage: Heavy Deployed Accuracy: Good Undeployed Accuracy: Poor Deployed Recoil: Light Undeployed Recoil: Heavy

The MG34 was a truly revolutionary development – it gave the German infantryman the world’s first machine gun that was fully capable of providing a high volume of sustained firepower without sacrificing speed of movement and tactical flexibility.  Today every military power in the world employs machine guns that have evolved from the basic configuration and principles of the MG34.

Game Tips: The MG34 has the best accuracy of all the MG’s – it will retain some effectiveness undeployed and on the move, although a deployed position is still recommended.

MG Useage: Machineguns are nearly useless when not deployed.  Go ‘prone’ and hit ‘secondary fire’ to deploy your bipod. (Or, find an ‘MG nest’ to deploy the bipod while standing.)

MG42 Machine Gun

Operation: Belt-fed, automatic Caliber: 8mm Mauser Capacity: 250 round belt Weight: 25.3 lbs Damage: Heavy Deployed Accuracy: Good Undeployed Accuracy: Very poor Deployed Recoil: Light Undeployed Recoil: Extreme

Hurried into development to overcome problems with the MG34, the radical new MG42 established a reputation for reliability and combat effectiveness despite its crude appearance.  It’s revolutionary yet simple design soldiers on even today with the German Bundeswehr and other European armies, in a form virtually identical to the very first production models.

Game Tips: The MG42 has the highest rate of fire of any weapon in the game – over 1200 rounds per minute! Because of this, it will chew through ammo fairly quickly – it can even overheat it’s barrel if you don’t control your fire.

MG Useage: Machineguns are nearly useless when not deployed.  Go ‘prone’ and hit ‘secondary fire’ to deploy your bipod. (Or, find an ‘MG nest’ to deploy the bipod while standing.)

P08 Luger Pistol

Operation: Semiautomatic Caliber: 9mm Parabellum Capacity: 8 round box magazine Weight: 1.93 lbs Damage: Moderate Accuracy: Poor Recoil: Light

The Pistol of the German Army, it does its job well. Use this weapon the way you would use a Colt, and you can't go wrong. Generally, though, it takes a bullet or two more to drop a single foe.

Game Tips: Single shots with a pistol are uneffective.  Firing in quick succession is your only reasonable chance of overcoming an opponent with his primary weapon.

"Spade” Entrenchment Tool

Damage: Heavy Most soldiers in any army were issued "entrenching tools” – compact, light shovels that aided in the construction of foxholes, fortifications, etc.  It was found through combat experience that the German entrenching tool – a "spade” – was much more effective in close quarters combat than a standard knife or bayonet.  Game Tips: The Spade does slightly more damage than the other hand-to-hand weapons – either a hit to the body or head will take out an opponent.

SS Knife

Damage: Moderate A rare "showpiece” knife that was sometimes used in combat if the situation was desperate enough. Game Tips: A knife will usually only kill in one hit if it is to the head – so aim high.

Gravity Knife

Damage: Moderate Issued only to Fallschirmjaeger, this was more of a utility knife rather than a combat knife – used primarily to cut tangled parachute risers, etc. Game Tips: A knife will usually only kill in one hit if it is to the head – so aim high.

Stielhandgranate 24

Damage: Heavy Basic German hand grenade – also called a ‘stick grenade’ or ‘potato masher’.  Although the stick allowed these grenades to be thrown farther than most others, it also added extra weight to the grenade and made them very cumbersome to carry in large numbers. Game Tips: Enemy grenades can be caught and thrown back.  When you see an enemy grenade on the ground (or in the air, if you’re really good!), hit the ‘use’ key to catch it and the ‘fire’ key to throw it back.  Be quick, though – grenades only have a 5 second fuse.