The E. MG is designed primarily as a medium to long range supression and area denial weapon. Ideally the E. MG should always be and low as possible while still functional the reasoning for this is that the gunner is extremely vunerable to sniper fire and the weapons depression is very low. The E. MG's ideal engagement range should be between 150-300m, engaging with the gun at shorter ranges will generally be ineffective as the gunner with little or no cover is very vunerable to close quarters small arms, grenades and flanking. An additional reason for keeping your distance is counter snipers who depending on their experience have a higher chance of missing or being short; This presents you with opportunity to locate and counter fire with each miss.


Oh look an E. MG! The gunner has just been sniped off. The positions distance from its targets is nice but its height makes it an easy target. I understand some times their is little choice but to place MG in high places ie arnhem bridge defense but i will cover how to get around this when discussing defensive use.

On defense the E. MG can be devastating but it must be utilized in ways that captilize on its ability to put down continual fire. The most basic way to do this is to ensure that the E. MG enfiliades the enemy and that enemy cannot shoot back without presenting themselves as a target. See Fig. 1


Here is how you can effectively keep fire on arnhem bridge - Fig. 2

You can angle the bags or ideally bunker so you get far wider shooting angle on the bridge.

The E. MG on Offense is very simple set up at a long distance 200m+ and spray the objective. This should be performed offset from the general route of attack of the other squads so as not to supress/heavily supress(Kill) teamates. See Fig. 3

Now i must mention a don't: Positioning E. MGs in obvious spots (the middle of road) on defense or offense is a waste or resources and will not help - the enemy will kill the gunner before he can have any affect. Enemies will always attack through cover never through the obvious and open terrain do not set up an E. MG to counter this attack type of attack. If they do attack this way you've already won. Setting Up E. MG on high points in buildings within the cap is usually not effective; by the time the enemy is on the cap their limit depression and traverse makes them irrelevant and their obviousness makes them easy target; see HE shell to the face.