MG42

MG42

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Gun Information
Full name	Maschinengewehr 42
Country of origin	Nazi Germany
Manufacturer	Mauser, Großfuß AG, MAGET
Game Information
Faction	Griffin & Kryuger
Manufactured / Revised by	I.O.P.
Voice actor	Yokoya Sayaka
Artist	Spirtie
Released on	CN, TW, KR, EN, JP
Chibi Animation
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How to obtain

NORMALHEAVY Timer 5:50:00. See T-Doll Production for details.

DROP Can be obtained from many battle stages from Chapter 3-6 onward.

REWARD Not obtained as a reward

Exclusive Equipment

MG42 Exclusive Bipod

Union Skill

There is no union skill for this T-Doll.

Stats / Data

Stats

Health  Health	Health  Ammo	Health  Ration
83(x1) → 165(x1) / 825(x5)	40(x1) / 140(x5)	30(x1) / 90(x5)

Damage  Damage	32 → 92	Evasion  Evasion	4 → 26
Accuracy  Accuracy	3 → 23	Rate of Fire  Rate of Fire	90 → 132
Movement Speed  Move Speed	4	Armor  Armor	0
Critical Hit Rate  Crit. Rate	5%	Critical Hit Damage  Crit. Damage	50%
Armor Penetration  Armor Pen.	15	Clip Size  Clip Size	10

Equipment

Ranking of this Doll's specs relative to other Dolls of the same type.

Ranking of this Doll's specs relative to every other Doll.

Tiles

Affects shotguns

Increases damage by 22%

Skill1

name	Damage Focus MG
icon	powBuffSelf
text	Increases damage by ($damage_value)% for ($time_value) seconds.
initial	8
cooldown	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18
damage_value	22	27	32	36	41	46	51	55	60	65
time_value	4	4.2	4.4	4.7	4.9	5.1	5.3	5.6	5.8	6

	name of skill here

 

Weapon Background

The MG42 (shortened from Maschinengewehr 42, or "Machine rifle 42") was a general purpose machine gun that entered service with Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in 1942, during World War II. It was developed from, and was intended to supplant the MG34 machine gun, though both would continue to be used and manufactured until the end of that war. It was chambered for the 7.92x57mm Mauser cartridge that was universally used by German rifles and machine guns.

The MG42 has one of the highest average rate-of-fire among WWII machine guns with a maximum ROF of 1200 RPM, resulting in a distinct muzzle report and earning the nickname "Hitler's Buzzsaw" ("Hitlersäge" in German). It has a proven record of reliability, durability, simplicity, and ease of operator use.

Most German infantry tactics centered around the MG34 and MG42 machine guns. A typical German squad was composed of six or ten soldiers, one being the machine gunner, while the other men carried rifles and SMGs, and supported the gunner. The others also carried spare barrels and extra ammunition for the machine gun.

The MG42 would serve in a significant role against the Allied forces during the Normandy landings in 1944, as well as the push to Germany from 1944 to 1945. Here it earned the deadly reputation as a "buzzsaw" that cut down men like wheat. The MG42 was also instrumental in the Eastern Front, where it gunned down many Soviet soldiers.

The MG42's lineage continued past Germany's defeat, forming the basis for the nearly identical MG1, and subsequently improved into the still very similar MG2, which was in turn followed by the MG3. It also spawned the Swiss MG 710, MG 42/59. It and the MG3 were in service with many armies during the Cold War and remain so into the 21st century. Even the American Military's M60 took design cues from the MG42.

Character Design

MG42 is designed to reflect that she is both lighter and sleeker than her older sister, while still sticking strongly to her sibling's sense of aesthetics. She wears a more urbane, showy version of MG34's outfit, with prominent leggings, a pleated skirt, and a necktie, with a similar officer's cap to the one MG34 wears. She wears multiple belts of ammunition, and her outfit shows more skin than MG34 does. Her brighter color scheme helps further the image that she's a newer gun. Fittingly, she keeps her hair tied back in a pair of long tresses that further add to the image of her being lighter and newer.

Gallery

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Trivia

• MG42 is one of the few Wehrmacht-inspired T-dolls that wears white and violet apparel, instead of the usual Dunkelgrau (dark grey) and Feldgrau (greenish-gray) uniforms of other WWII German T-dolls.
• In her game CG, there's no ammo belt or Magazine(Gurttrommel) chambered in her gun. However, in chibi CG sprite, she used 50-round Gurttrommel Magazine when reloading.
• Unlike its predecessor, MG42 has less complex internal parts and simplified yet rugged construction which is less prone to dirt while capable to deliver a blistering rate of fire.
• MG42 is designed for defensive use, especially in stationary fortification such as captured buildings, pillboxes, sandbags.
  • The MG42 effectiveness as a defensive weapon was proved by Heinrich Severloh, who managed to defend his bunker from approaching allied soldiers during Normandy Invasion. He's so-called 'the Beast of Omaha Beach' due to his kill mark of 1000 allied soldiers albeit military historians doubt his claim.
  • MG42 can be produced two times faster (75-hour of labor) while costs RM37 ($93) due to the simple construction of stamped sheet metal in the same year.
• MG42 features a quick barrel swap mechanism located at the right of the barrel shroud. Due to the blistering rate of fire, barrel changing can be frequent and dangerous as the barrel glowing red. To prevent this, MG42 operator was issued asbestos gloves which were helpful during barrel swap process.
• The Rate of Fire from MG42 can be a double-edged sword: While being praised for effective suppression fire, the experienced operator complained of the difficulty to control MG42 due to the kicking recoil even from the single burst.
  • In addition, its rate of fire will eat up ammo in rapid succession, which can be dangerous for several conditions: In Eastern Front, the German Machine Gun crews often running out of ammo as they are faced with approaching Soviet human wave. Even the crew was experienced enough to control the MG42, ammo conservation still became a major problem to overcome with.
• Near the end of the war, Grossfuss designed MG45 or MG42V which derived from MG42. Unlike the predecessor, MG45 was designed with low-grade material due to the low amount of resources to manufacture more MG42. MG45 beats any Infantry-Deployed Machine Gun in terms of Rate of Fire, only being rivaled with ShKAS Aircraft Machine Gun, 1.800 RPM. However, combined with low-grade material and blistering Rate of Fire, MG45 is extremely prone to overheating which damages the component or even severely breaking it and affects overall performance.
  • Interestingly, MG45 is able to accept 75-round Patronentrommel which is used by MG34. Only 10 units were produced during wartime.
  • The roller-delayed blowback action has been employed by several firearms in the post-war such as SIG 510, HK 21, and CETME Ameli.
• Due to the square-shaped barrel shroud, MG42 cannot be mounted as coaxial MG on a tank hull as it will obstruct the barrel hatch.
  • However, MG42 can be mounted as both an offensive and defensive weapon for transporter Half-Track or sidecar motorcycle.
• It was also known as the "Linoleum ripper", "Bonesaw" and "Calico-tearer".
• U.S had reverse-engineered MG42 and replacing the barrel to be compatible for 7.62 Springfield(.30.06) known as T24 Machine Gun. To meet U.S cyclic rate requirements, a heavy bolt is installed to reduce the rate of fire for better control and accuracy. However, the design engineer made an error where the 7.92x56mm Mauser caliber was shorter than .30.06 Springfield(7.62x63mm), resulting in continuous stoppages during a field test. The project of T24 was ultimately abandoned after considering too much effort and time to redesign it.
• MG42 has numerous experimental device that increases its performance during the battle, but never released in actual service itself:
  • Krummlauf was proposed to be used at MG42, which was bent to 30° in order to shot from the cover without exposing the operator itself. However, the application of the Krummlauf in MG42 will wear out the barrel life expectancy and considered impractical to be deployed.
  • An exclusive compensator of MG42, which basically a muzzle brake was proposed in 1943. Unlike the standard conical-shaped flash hider, the muzzle brake consists of two baffle plates attached to the recoil intensifier and flash eliminator. The muzzle brake itself was only produced in several numbers and didn't have a deployment record.