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These forums date back to the game's origins as the Crysis mod Traction Wars. Over the years the game and internet habits have evolved and discord.gg/vanguardww2 is now the principle home of the community.
The team continue to read and reply to posts here, but we can be contacted more quickly on Discord.
Thing is the German army did not have marksmen in the way that the American or British forces had. There was no designated marksman in German squads or companies as that went against everything in their squad tactics book. In fact, the man who carried the MG was generally supposed to BE the best shot in the entire squad, due to the MG's importance.
Also drummer,maybe they used small scopes for using them both in long and medium distances,even in short ones? My opinion,of course
"27th (Penal) Panzer Regiment" is not a real unit. It literally never existed. At all. 27th Panzer Regiment was a part of the 19th Panzer Division (not the 6th as "Sven" often claims) and was never at all a Penal unit. The only Penal units in the German army were infantry, and most were not in frontline duty- the few that were were simply expendable infantry units meant to do the work no one wanted to do, like clearing minefields and such.
This is, amoung other things, one of the big reasons the Sven Hassel books are mostly considered works of fiction by actual historians. Do NOT take anything they say as reality.