Soldier and his weapon

[PETERPANs]

I want to ask about it. Is it allowed to pick another weapon instead of original equipped? Something like german rifleman throw away Kar 98 to replace it by captured SVT 40. Is he free to do that or he need agreement of field command. Is soldier controlled? If he using weapon from armory or not?

And what about captured weapons? How many of them they should kept? Is it possible to change weapon in army by capturing other?

 

[LemoN]

I'm 100% sure you will be able to pick up other weapons lying around.

 

[PETERPANs]

I'm 100% sure you will be able to pick up other weapons lying around.

But if you declared that captured weapon is better, can you leave previous weapon without returning it to armory?

 

[Karabiner98k]

I think he means, say, in the campaign, can you capture a weapon and then use it for subsequent missions.

 

[Flogger23m]

I don't think you would be able to. Please note my guess is just that, a random guess.

Maybe so though.

But I think each mission you will play a different soldier, like in RO OST. You are not just one soldier who you keep playing, you play a lot of different ones.

 

[Richard_B.]

He is NOT speaking about the game, but about the situation in the reality.
So: Would a soldier in the reality be allowed to throw away his weapon to use any other weapon he finds during battle?

 

[SiC-Disaster]

I doubt that at war time you are controlled that strictly.
There are quite a few photo's where German soldiers have exchanged their MP40 for a PPSH.

 

[BooBoo]

You run the risk of getting shot by your own troops.How many times have you thrown a grenade/shot into a trench/foxhole/room with the sound of an enemy weapon emanating from it? Troopers tend to stick to their own weapons unless ammo/jams or its the only weapon left around to fend of the enemy.This happens in reality but it also happens in game with RO.

 

[Agenda_Suicide]

In between battles soldiers uniforms and equipment were inspected. If you lost something you lost the armies equipment and would be reprimanded by losing leave time or some other punishment. It seems that the Germans were very strict on this. Not sure about the Russians but probably the same.

 

[Lucan946]

I want to ask about it. Is it allowed to pick another weapon instead of original equipped? Something like german rifleman throw away Kar 98 to replace it by captured SVT 40. Is he free to do that or he need agreement of field command. Is soldier controlled? If he using weapon from armory or not?

And what about captured weapons? How many of them they should kept? Is it possible to change weapon in army by capturing other?

At 1st question: Have you ever even played Red Orchestra?
At 2nd one: I genuinely don't know.

 

[LemoN]

And what about captured weapons? How many of them they should kept? Is it possible to change weapon in army by capturing other?

One thing i know the Germans did:
Whenever they captured vast ammounts of weapons and decided to hand them out to the troops they sent them back behind the lines to check them up, sometimes even convert them and let the encountant count them up to the overall cache.

Then they would be reissued

 

[Ermac]

I think discarding rifles would be strictly forbidden. Those rifles cost money.

 

[Flogger23m]

The Germans did use a lot of Soviet equipment they captured. Mainly SVT-40s and PPSH-41s. They even converted PPSHs to 9x19mm.

 

[-[SiN]-bswearer]

both sides also made use of other captured equiptment like vehicles......gotta love the captured t34/76 from BDJ. ruskies reissued panthers too

i'd love to see reissued vehicles in the game, but idk about guns. maybe that could be one of the perks in the rankings or acheivements or whatever.....like the ability to as a german SL, choose to use a captured SVT instead of a g41 or mp40/41, whereas the common player without that qualification only gets a choice of g41 or mp40/41. it should only apply for a limited amount of classes and limited amount of players as it would not be realistic for 16 germans to spawn with SVTs

 

[Ermac]

I like the idea of being able to choose a SVT-40 on the German side. Of course, in limited numbers. The Soviets reissueing German tanks? Now I don't know a lot about tanks, but I read that it takes months of training to operate just 1 type of tank.

 

[Flogger23m]

I saw a picture of a recently found German capture T-34. It was pulled from a lake. Had German markings on it.

I have read that they did use each others tanks, but probably in small numbers.

Small arms would be easier to capture and train with, so it would be more logical for it to be in game.

If it was present in the areas HoS takes place, I would like to see the modified PPSH-41s that the Germans converted to 9x19mm. Here is an example:

 

[Exreler]

About the weapons, Germans here in Latvia used all kind of Russian weapons, one my friend found Russian PPD-40 at german last possitions of 1945, by that time Russians didn't use PPD's, I think, that German found this weapon at 1941 and used all war.
Other interesting find was Degterov mashineguns with Waffenamt on them (German quality marks) magazines were full of Mauser cartriges
Degterev barrel

Waffenamt on it

P.S. Both sides used all grenades what they could find

 

[Ermac]

I saw a picture of a recently found German capture T-34. It was pulled from a lake. Had German markings on it.

I have read that they did use each others tanks, but probably in small numbers.

Small arms would be easier to capture and train with, so it would be more logical for it to be in game.

If it was present in the areas HoS takes place, I would like to see the modified PPSH-41s that the Germans converted to 9x19mm. Here is an example:

That's really neat, I'd love to own one. I wonder how much they were used in Stalingrad?

 

[Exreler]

I know that germans used Russian weapons for long time, because my friend found PPD-40 on last German possitions in Kurland where Germans threw out all unnecessary things, from that place Germans was going to capitulation place in 08.05.1945.

P.S. Germans also made new barrels for Soviet weapons here is Degtyaryov machine gun's barrel with Waffenamt (the Army Acceptance Organization) stamp on it. Magazines were full of German Mauser cartridges

 

[Exreler]

That's really neat, I'd love to own one. I wonder how much they were used in Stalingrad?

They were used only in end war in Germany.