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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

Union Skill

There is no union skill for this T-Doll.

Stats / Data

Stats
Health
Health
 Health
Health
Health
 Ammo
Health
Health
 Ration
83(x1)165(x1) / 825(x5) 40(x1) / 140(x5) 30(x1) / 90(x5)
Damage
Damage
 Damage
32 92
Evasion
Evasion
 Evasion
4 26
Accuracy
Accuracy
 Accuracy
3 23
Rate of Fire
Rate of Fire
 Rate of Fire
90 132
Movement Speed
Movement Speed
 Move Speed
4
Armor
Armor
 Armor
0
Critical Hit Rate
Critical Hit Rate
 Crit. Rate
5%
Critical Hit Damage
Critical Hit Damage
 Crit. Damage
50%
Armor Penetration
Armor Penetration
 Armor Pen.
15
Clip Size
Clip Size
 Clip Size
10

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.

Affects shotguns
Increases damage by 22%
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Weapon Background

The MG42 (shortened from German Maschinengewehr 42, or "Machine rifle 42") was a general purpose machine gun that was developed for and entered service with the German Wehrmacht in 1942, during World War II. The 7.92mm rifle caliber weapon was developed from, and was intended to supplant the MG 34 machine gun, though both would continue to be used and manufactured until the end of that war.

The MG42 has the highest average rate of fire of any single-barreled light machine gun, resulting in a distinct muzzle report. It has a proven record of reliability, durability, simplicity, and ease of operator use. 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.

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

Main artwork

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Alternative artwork

Alternate gallery consisting of artworks with slight alterations as well as miscellaneous artworks.

Trivia

  • Known as "Hitler's buzzsaw", "Hitler's zipper", "linoleum ripper", "Hitlersäge ("Hitler's saw")", "Bonesaw" and "Calico-tearer" due the distinctive sound that produced from its rate of fire.
  • Unlike her older sister, MG42 cannot be mounted as coaxial MG on tank hull mount because the square-shaped heat shield will obstruct the small hatch at the right of MG42 to replace a barrel. While so, MG42 was popularly used in sandbag emplacement, captured building, and mostly bunker.
    • However in very rare cases, MG42 was used as pintle-mounted weapon on commander cupola in order to sway off enemy aircraft or approaching enemies. While so, MG42 was actually used in first production of Jagdpanzer IV as coaxial machine gun and some of German Halftrack. Or the BMW motorcycle which can be mounted on the Sidecar.
    • The effectiveness of MG42 on stationary fortification was proved by Heinrich Severloh, who managed to defend the bunker from approaching U.S Soldiers during Normandy Invasion with MG42 before being ambushed at his bunker. He's so called as 'The Beast of Omaha Beach' due his killmark of 1000 U.S Soldiers, although his claim is doubted by both US and German historians. Aside of MG42, Severloh used Kar 98K in the bunker.[1]
  • Although known as machine gun with fastest rate of fire in the era and became a propaganda until the end of the war, the internal parts of MG42 are less complex over its predecessor, with the cost of accuracy and recoil control. Because of the simplified yet ruggedness construction of MG42, it proved immune even at extreme condition as opposed with her predecessor, MG34.
    • MG42 has quick barrel swap mechanism, which located at the right heat shield shroud proved very helpful during the war. However due the very fast of rate of fire the barrel are tend to glowing hot, which very dangerous to replace with bare hands; The gunner was issued with asbestos gloves to prevent hand from burning when replacing barrel. The gunner also could insert the shell brass in the barrel hole and pulling it out, or shake the barrel until it gets out if they don't have the gloves.
  • The Rate of Fire from MG42 however, became a double-edged sword: While being praised for effective suppression fire, the experienced operator complained the difficulty to control MG42 due the kicking recoil even from the single burst.
    • In addition, the rate of fire it produced will eat up ammo in rapid succession, which can be dangerous for several condition: In Eastern Front, German Machine Gun crew often running out of ammo as they faced with approaching Soviet human wave. Even the crew was experienced enough to control the MG42, ammo conservation still became a major difficulties to overcome with.[2][3]
  • U.S had reverse-engineered MG42 and replacing the barrel which designed for 7.62 springfield(.30.06) known as T24 Machine Gun. In order to meet U.S cyclic rate requirements, heavy bolts was installed to reduce 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 of continuous stoppages during field test. The project of T24 was abandoned after considering too much effort and times to redesign it.[4]
  • Near the end of war, Grossfuss designed MG45 which derived from MG42. Unlike the predecessor, MG45 designed with low-grade material due the low amount of resource to manufacture more MG42. MG45 beats all German Machine Gun in term of Rate of Fire, while shares same RoF with ShKAS Aircraft Machine Gun, 1.800 RPM. However, combined with low-grade material and very high Rate of Fire, MG45 is extremely prone to overheating which can damage the component or even severely breaking it. Interestingly, MG45 able to accept 75-round Patronentrommel which used by MG34.
  • She's only a Wehrmacht T-dolls which wore unsual white and violet for her apparel, instead of standard issue Dunkelgrau and Feldgrau which Wehrmacht T-dolls mainly used.
  • In her game CG, there's no ammo belt or Magazine(Gurttrommel) inserted in her gun. However, in chibi CG sprite, she used 50-round Gurttrommel Magazine when reloading.
  • Younger sister of MG MG34MG34MG34.

References