And so, the Germans had finally created something that was simple. However, they then realized that they were in fact Germans, and in order to narrowly avoid total national embarrassment, paired it with a magazine system that was twice as complicated as itself. Order was swiftly, and thoroughly, restored.

Kevin the Grenadier is now a obligatory NPC in every game I run from this point onward.

The original angry pipe

A couple of years ago a bank was robbed at gunpoint in my city (Santiago, Chile) with a "Machinegun". The culprit was caught, and so its gun, which was an MP18, which was donated to a museum.

I would've loved if the intro was, "Hi! I'm Othias, and war were declared."

>December >month of Christmas >Othias has a machine gun now Ho ho ho

"Hugo Sad" I laughed so damn hard

C&Rsenal: MP18 is good at close range, but weak and inaccurate at long range. 1917 Enfield is good at long range, but slow at short range. BAR is able to do both, but 30-06 is a bit much at full auto. It’s almost like someone should make a cartridge that’s somewhere between pistol caliber and full power rifle caliber, and then fire it out of a select fire rifle. I wonder if that will ever catch on?🤔

Hit all 4 targets at least twice at 100 meters in a single mag dump. That's actually quite impressive. Well done Mae and goes to show how controllable it is.

Being a German teacher, the German word for "improved" is "verbessert"

I wasn’t prepared for such an early WWD! My monocle nearly fell out!

Mae's big 'ol grin after those 32 round full-auto mag dumps says it all.

Wait a minute. My left eye hadn't even started to close when War Were Declared. This should be one heck of an episode

You release this near Christmas, and didn’t go “Ho Ho Ho now I have a (sub) machine gun” when you went into the breakdown? Missed opoutunity

I saw the problem from the start, problem is, it doesn't take Glock mags. Love the channel.

For those speculating on what the ",I" stands for, here's some gasoline to throw on the fire: the improved version of the M.P. 18,I - with a stick magazine - was named the "M.P. 28,II."

46:00 Recovered footage of GPK instructing Hugo Schmeisser to use the snail drum mag for MP-18.

I had an uncle (by marriage) whose father was an infantry sergeant in WW1 and he said that in one battle he and his men were ordered to advance on the Germans just behind the artillery walking barrage. They HAD to walk at a designated pace or get hit by their own artillery. THAT was discipline my friends, discipline.

Finally! The legendary and mother of the all smg has a rise!!!!

Britain: “Lol, SMGs are pointless xD”. Also Britain: designs probably the simplest SMG of all time, makes a gazillion of them and drops them all over Europe.

I would like to see a comparison between the MP18.I and the original Thompson sub machine gun with the 50rd drum. Both weapons were designed to be “trench brooms”; it would be very interesting to recreate a WWI trench and incorporate it into the test.

Fun fact about the "Kugelspritz" nickname, in swedish it translates to "Kulspruta" which is still to this day the swedish military nomenclature for machinegun.

"But does it use Luger magazines?" Yes Hans! It does!

My favorite Primer episode! Dialogue between Othais and Mae is classic!

I love how happy may looks after shooting the cool guns in this show. I can't understand why it took the poms until dunkirk to realise how good SMGs are.

Fastest "War were declared" east of the Mississippi

1:11:45 I think the german nomenclature is pretty clear: Rifle caliber -> Maschinengewehr = machine rifle Pistol calibre -> Maschinenpistole = machine pistol

I've been waiting for this specific gun to be featured for a damn long time, and I'm very happy to say it's better than I could have ever imagined. 18/18 this gun makes me nut

“Hugo sad.”

Maybe the "I" stands for "Infanterie"?

A few points: * The MP 18,I was always intended to feed from a Trommelmagazin from the beginning. The idea to utilize box magazines didn't come until the MP 18,III (see below). * The ",I" suffix is indeed a numeral, there were four variants developed (MP 18,I ,II ,III & ,IV) for the Kriegsministerium. The latter two fed from Mauser box magazines and showed great promise but were not adopted before the end of the war. * The first guns to reach the front were delivered for field trials to the 119 Infanterie-Division in July 1918 and first saw combat at Amiens in August. No guns were delivered in time for the Spring Offensive despite many sources claiming this. A full rollout did not commence until October. * There is, to my knowledge, no documentary evidence that the MP 18,I was ever banned by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. It never comes up in the regulation tables in the treaty itself, and bulletins issued by the Reichswehr High Command during the several months after the treaty came into effect confirm that it was still in active issue for a while until being retired later on, along with the Lange Pistole (which itself was not banned either). I haven't been able to find any contemporary reference to its supposed illegality in military service. Unless some concrete evidence of this claim can be found, I'm inclined to believe it's just a myth. * The Italian OVP was in service before the MP 18,I but was issued predominantly as a PDW for aviators, not an infantry weapon. Only 500 were delivered. * The Beretta gun you refer to was the Revelli-Beretta model which was indeed a conversion of the Villar Perosa but was not an SMG as it was semi-automatic only. It was also not adopted until September 1918, a few months after the MP 18,I, and less than 2,000 were delivered before the end of the war. * RE production, French reports indicate that a total of 50,000 guns were made during the war (look out for a future issue of Armax for confirmation of this). However the vast majority of these never left the factory, as the Kriegsministerium reported only 17,000 delivered by October 1918. No production took place after 1919 as the Bergmann factory closed that year.

Great show as always. Thanks to all that allowed the MP-18 to come alive and for its story to be told and shared.

The episode we have all been waiting for. Thank you!

Hugo sad t-shirt or patch when?

Seems like all my favorite channels are rolling out the extra special good stuff for Crimbo. Happy holidays!

The pistol grip on the L2A3 stabilises the side magazine by converting the twist from the offset magazine into the palm of the right hand and the barrel shroud does not get too hot for a left hand fore grip. Holding magazine will run the real risk of it engaging with the magazine release, which is not a good thing in action, but also bends a stick magazine and loads the feed lips which are the most vulnerable necessary part. As does opening bottle with them......

1:21 in "War were declared" well that escalated quickly.

Beautiful episode on one of the most iconic and historically significant firearms. Well done!

Great video Othais! My thanks to you and Mae. Best wishes to you all from an Englishman living in France. Rich.

Love it. The bolt comes out and I go STEN then the Stirling which I carried as a weapon. Great stuff Othais and Mae :-)

Excellent video as always. Thanks so much for putting such quality content out there.

Excellent programme again.

Best ep ever! Animation was incredible.

Good. Very.....good. Even with a wobbly magazine, feed is good; a testament to Mark's tenacity. Well done, everyone!

I find it interesting that it appears to be a "constant recoil" design. The footage of Mae's shooting shows that the bolt never hits the back of the receiver. That probably improves the recoil considerably. Interesting, because constant recoil is supposed to be the hot new thing in light machine guns.

Regarding designation: In German there are the words "Maschinengewehr" and "Maschinenpistole" meaning machine-rifle and -pistol. There isnt a wide used word that includes both like the English word "Machinegun". Of course we have our versions of "automatic weapon" and words like that but "Maschinengewehr" and "Maschinenpistole" are the ones that are mainly used when talking about full auto small arms.

Another great material about the WW1 guns.🤩 Thanks for it💕

Best winter holiday gift guys thankyou!

Ehrmagherd this is one of my top three for sure. Maybe top 5. OK, maybe top 114 of your 114 that you have covered. I love the work you all are doing for history. The MP18 in my hands, with a 1911 on my hip, and a trench gun on my back, would be a trifecta of awesome WW1 firearms!

You absolutely MUST release a 'Hugo is Sad' T-shirt!

the interaction about the mag was so good i was imagining it in german in my head i laughed so hard please do more episodes i love them

On the name of it, machine carbine is exactly what the British called them through WWII and into the cold war. And that idea hangs around as "pistol caliber carbine". But "submachine gun" sounded cool and Thompson was good at marketing so that is what we got.

I think we need to keep in mind the tactics this weapon was designed to function best in... Shock-troops, sudden massed-fire (imagine a 3-gun squad of these to mass fire on an objective), disrupting enemy tactics, force the enemy to stop firing and seek cover, deny areas of the battle space... It helps to shape the German tactics of WW2, basing platoons and tactics around the use of machine guns, both heavy guns and individual weapons. Had they more time, I would guess we would have seen an improved balanced version and dedicated magazines and better ergonomics. Revolutionary. Thanks for a great channel!!! P.S. I LOVE to see how much Mae enjoys shooting each weapon. :) Wish I had your job...

That first rewind caught me off guard and I thought my phone spazzed out haha

I've certainly seen at least one photo of a German soldier gripping it by the magwell. Two soldiers next to each other, in fact. But they were kneeling with their left legs forward and their left elbows on their left knees. I think it had a label that said that was how you were supposed to fire if, and only if, you were kneeling. Also now that I think about it there is a 50% chance they were police officers. But I have no idea how I would go about finding that photo again anyway, so take that with a large grain of salt.

We still call it a Maschinenpistole. Hence the MP5 being the MP5.

Thanks Team. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

That looked like it was a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing 👍

Thank you Othias, Very cool!

Great editing in this video. 🎞️🎬

Mae usually looks happy at the end of the shooting segment, but she looked positively giddy at the end of this one, I'd say that's a pretty ringing endorsement. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you at C&Rsenal!

It must be frigging christmas when all of my favorite content creators upload all in the same week. XD

That episode was a blast indeed! Thanks to vbbsmyt that now I actually understood how that drum magazine worked! Also, the rewinding gimmick to switch to different POV during shooting segments is a nice touch!

Been waiting for this one

Great. Thanks for all your work.

if i could own of these, i would in a heartbeat. everything about them is so cool!

In Sweden, those kind of weapons are called "kulsprutepistol". It litterarly means bullet spray pistol. A machinegun is "kulspruta" = bullet sprayer.

Oh my God, the impromptu Hugo role play was brilliant!!

Hugo Sad! best C&Rsenal ever. More dramatic re-enactments please.

"I'm not a gangster" lol.

i just wanted to see how the rounds transition from the drum up the angle and into the feed tower so smoothly to actually work, that alone was worth the watch...that Mae as Hugo bit was great too

Thank you for the data Othias. Also, if there is one shooter who's opinion I respect it is Mae. She has had hands on with more weapons then anyone other then Ian... another well done episode.

As soon as she lifted it up with the second magazine, it was "Hell yeah, full auto baby!". Great video, it's soo easy to forget this isn't a WW2 weapon.

"So if you're gonna be stuck with it, you might as well be stuck with _a lot_ of it." Words to live by. :)

day 8 of binge watching this series.

Two missed opportunities here Othias. 1. Should have been episode 118 (Mk.I of MP18) 2. Really missed opportunity to say 'Ho Ho Ho! Now I have a Machine Gun!' :) Still fantastic as always. BTW- I have worn my C&Rsenal shirts for all of my college exams, particularly Patented Plastic & Pokey, and got straight A's. Thanks for pointing the way to knowledge!

I’ve waited so long for this episode

I really enjoyed this one Good job

Amazing that you not only got your hands on one of these things, but actually got to shoot it

He's done it, the absolute madman has done it.

Great episode

A simple THANK YOU from me. You brought the first SMG, which saw actually service, to the table. Yeah, it had it`s corks, but man is this thing impressive for the first attempt to the subject. And you are not shy to present it at was it is.

GREAT VIDEO -- MAE !!!

Looking forward to see the Villar Perosa in this show ;) . You guys rules, sheers from France !

War Were Declared so fast I nearly spit my popcorn out all over the monitor!

No freakin way! This is incredible!

I was spooked by the video rewinding while shooting. I was not expecting that.

The look on May's face after the mag dump is priceless!!!

Damn Mae you are getting good at this stuff. Well done.

Watching a second time, it just hit me how dark the footage at 6:07 is. They ain't reenacting for the news reels...

I love to see how happy May always gets when talking and specially shooting. XD

The best of all these videos is the huge smile on Mae's face after a mag dump! \m/

Congratulations! You have created the first in depth yet entertaining Gun-Show !Keep on the very good work. Greetings from Germany. PS: Kugelspritze = Bullet sprayer. "Hugo sad"= LOL

Thanks for the history

I did not know how much I needed Mae Schmeisser.

May is awesome! Well done

Up to the usual high standard. Marvelously done.

Dang, Mae hit each of those targets multiple times during her full auto sweep. That's an effective little weapon!

I’ve been waiting for this episode since we got a peek at it over on Anvil!

I just started playing BF1 again, then this vid uploaded. Awesome.