Both the P38 and C96 are in. Not the Luger 08 though.
When it expands out of Stalingrad? If, you mean?
The entire game is designed to be in and around the city, including the actual strategic map divided into the ten different maps. If they add new maps, they'd have to edit and expand the strategic map (or whatever you wish to call it) and presumably a lot of other stuff.
As has already been touched-on, the MG42 is most likely excluded due to being inherently overpowered. It was overpowered IRL -- the entire point of the MG42 was to give a single soldier the ability to wipe out an entire division, if positioned well.
you havn't seen the mkb42 yet in game. also the mg42 should be a hero weapon or a weapon you have to work your butt off to unlock. if its in game shouldn't be easy to get.
I believe it was said the MG42 wasnt used in stalingrad or something like that, and thus it wasnt included.
I want the luger I always used it in RO 1
Edit: what about the walther PPK? they were also used in WW2 no?
Without a doubt these saw action in Stalingrad with the Whermacht:
G-41
MP-38/40/41
MG-34
K98K
Gew98M/98b
VERY FEW MG-42s (There was probably more G41s than MG42s)
P-38
P-08
Very unlikely the C96 was in Stalingrad. As the C96 was primarily used by the SS. The SS used older "recycled" and reworked small arms. Ex: Gew98M, Gew98m reworked to K98 Config, Czech Vz-24s, Beretta 38As, etc. No actual Waffen SS divisions did participate in the actual battle of Stalingrad. But I am almost positive that one division was used in the party far West of the battle that they intended to use to puncture the pocket after it was encircled.
After the battle of Stalingrad the SS did send the 1st Leibstandarte, 2nd Das Reich and 3rd SS Totenkopf divisions to stabilize the front in the southern sector. They were responsible for the retaking of Krakov.
Having the MKb42 in the game is unrealistic. They weren't at Stalingrad. Combat trails didn't start until 1943. The Mkb was simply too new to enter into service in time to see action at Stalingrad. The few Mkbs that were made were sent to the Wehrmacht Ordnance testing facility(s) in Germany.
The battle of Stalingrad was a logistical nightmare, the Wehrmacht had a horrible time trying to get food, medicine and ammunition the whole time they were there. Issuing a brand new weapon to soldiers already at Stalingrad is illogical. You would have to train them how to properly fire, field strip and maintain the weapon and the supply trains and columns and depots would have to supply them with the uncommon 7.92x33mm rounds. Not to mention the tools and spare parts the armorers would need in the case one needed repair. That 7.92x33mm round was even hard to get late in the war 44-45 for the MP/StG44s.
Why? Logistics. Logistics is main reason why the Germans Lost at Stalingrad.
With all that being said, I wont mind if theyres one or two per round. I can live with that. But IMO Id rather not see them at all...it ruins the "Immersion" for me.
i don't think any military's used it. i have always viewed it as a spy's pistol.
That also isn't the same version that is in RO2. Thats the Broomhandle varient.
Neither was the MkB42. But it's in the game.