Typo - 'le' and 'Reichswald'

[Templer]

1. leMG? - 'le'?
2. Reichs Wald = Reichswald

 

[Dave 'Arjuna' O'Connor]

le = light


Not to sure about the context of the other but at a glance I'd say it means German wood

 

[Erik Springelkamp]

Reichswald is a proper name and should be written as one word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichswald

 

[Templer]

Reichswald is a proper name and should be written as one word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichswald

Exactly!
Sorry that I have expressed myself so incomprehensible.

 

[GoodGuy]

1. leMG? - 'le'?
2. Reichs Wald = Reichswald

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leMG (<- "Le") = leichtes Maschinengewehr , light machine gun.

If a short bipod ("Zweibein", removable or retractable) was mounted, it was called "light machine gun". Inf Coys used to have a certain amount of leMGs to provide suppressive or defensive fire. In Rifle Coys, MG 34's / MG 42's were pretty much the only effective weapons to put some real pressure on the enemy (1500 rounds/minute), until around 1943, as their single action rifles (5 rounds) did not have the RPM to keep enemies suppressed. The MG could also be fired from the hip or from the shoulder of a comrade (MG 34 below, I wonder if the soldier in front went deaf after having served as acting bipod ):



If the MG 42 was mounted on a gun mount (Lafette) with recoil slide, it was called "s.MG" ("schweres MG" = heavy machine gun). The gun-mount version (which looked like a tripod, but which was more effective/sophisticated than a plain tripod) had a max range of ~4000 meters (3750 according to some sources, ballistic trajectory, of course) and allowed for long range (single-fire) snipe shots (when optics were mounted, around 1200-1300 meters effective range in direct fire mode), due to the effectiveness of the recoil slide.
A MG 42 with a tall simple tripod (in this case it was considered to be a LMG) was used as AA weapon by inf troops and AA/flak support elements of the Regiment/Division, and the soldier had to stand while operating that AA MG.

The MG 34 had a max range of around 3000 meters in direct fire mode, and around 3500 in indirect fire mode (ballistic trajectory). The HMG 34 was equipped with something the Germans called "Tiefenfeuerautomat" or "Tiefenfeuereinrichtung" (hard to translate that one.... would "spatial firing device" make sense? Or "spatial/depth firing automat" ?) and that version was used in MG-Companies. The gun mount's slide controlled the firing device, so that the gunner could focus on firing at targets (firing over his own troops) and that he did not have to worry about hitting friendly troops. I am guessing that the observer advised a range and that the gunner then just set the range on the device before he started to fire.

I am not sure if the Germans actually used their HMGs to provide long range interdiction fire like the Brits did (the British MG Bns mastered such interdiction fire missions by late 1944 - with their Vickers MGs).

 

[Templer]

Interesting tutoring. Thanks GoodGuy.

Is "Reichs Wald = Reichswald" accepted as a bug now and will be corrected?

 

[Dave 'Arjuna' O'Connor]

In due course

 

[simovitch]

This (mis)spelling of Reichswald has been around since HTTR was released in 2003. To the mapmaker's and Panther's defense, the US Army Map Service 1944 maps which were used to digitize the game maps spells it thus: