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So an interesting What If came up on the Forgotten Weapons channel Q&A a day or two ago:
Given that the Germans started to move away from the LMG as a squad weapon as WW2 went on, removing part of the point of a GPMG in favor of the assault rifle, what if instead of investing in a GPMG pre-war they instead invested in Vollmer's M35 and later a SAW version of that weapon? ITTL the Germans would keep the MG13 and equip their infantry with the 'machine carbine', so that by the start of WW2 the Vollmer M35 (in intermediate 7.92 to avoid the cost of recalibering) is the primary infantry weapon instead of the K98k. They would keep the MG13 as a platoon/company/battalion weapon, but basically have squads equipped with only an assault rifle and a K98k for rifle grenades or perhaps marksman work. How does this impact infantry tactics going forward and ideas about light machine guns?

For the sake of argument let's assume the M35 uses a reliable gas tap rather than muzzle gas trap system like how the Garand evolved. Let's also say that due to it being a priority project in the 1930s it is developed more quickly than the OTL M35 and is no more expensive than the K98k (the OTL STG44 was cheaper than the K98k even in 1944 as proof that it was feasible).
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