I have some sympathy with Scott's comment re MGs. I have nothing to do with BFP other than some advice as to what some more obscure bits of kit might look like in ASL, so I don't know exactly what comes in OS. However given the time and location there is only 2 sources of MGs, the US and German. The only US MG not covered by official counters is the M1919A6, a 'light' MG version of the M1919, the US 4-10 MMG. The Germans may have some WW1 leftover water cooled MG as part of the Westwall fortifications and some Czech ZB-26 or 30, but most MG would be the standard MG-34 or 42.
PiF came with such a variety of MG as that was the historical situation. The Poles had standardised on the BAR and a version of the Browning water cooled MG but still had many WW1 relics from France, Germany and Russia. The Germans in '39 had standardised on the MG-34 but had a severe shortage of them. As a result fortress and 2nd+ wave divisions still used WW1 water cooled as their heavy MG. Many, many units used the Czech ZB-26/ZB-30 as their LMG, indeed it seems to have been the main LMG of the Waffen SS right up to and including France. Some unfortunates were using the LMG kludge versions of the WW1 water cooled MG. As the war progressed such weapons were increasingly seen only in fortress, anti-partisan and similar low grade, low mobility units. From discussion with another forumite it appears that even Wiking (5th SS) had a good number of substitute standard MG as late as '44.
In the end is rooting for an unusual MG all that different than rooting for a SdKfz 251/21? Maybe it's just that you don't expect to have to look for a special MG whilst you likely expect something unusual in 5/16". I agree about storage, I keep my BFP stuff separate. Simply because unless I am playing a BFP scenario (or a DYO), I don't need to even consider BFP counters and they do look different.
PiF came with such a variety of MG as that was the historical situation. The Poles had standardised on the BAR and a version of the Browning water cooled MG but still had many WW1 relics from France, Germany and Russia. The Germans in '39 had standardised on the MG-34 but had a severe shortage of them. As a result fortress and 2nd+ wave divisions still used WW1 water cooled as their heavy MG. Many, many units used the Czech ZB-26/ZB-30 as their LMG, indeed it seems to have been the main LMG of the Waffen SS right up to and including France. Some unfortunates were using the LMG kludge versions of the WW1 water cooled MG. As the war progressed such weapons were increasingly seen only in fortress, anti-partisan and similar low grade, low mobility units. From discussion with another forumite it appears that even Wiking (5th SS) had a good number of substitute standard MG as late as '44.
In the end is rooting for an unusual MG all that different than rooting for a SdKfz 251/21? Maybe it's just that you don't expect to have to look for a special MG whilst you likely expect something unusual in 5/16". I agree about storage, I keep my BFP stuff separate. Simply because unless I am playing a BFP scenario (or a DYO), I don't need to even consider BFP counters and they do look different.