@GabeLakmann @Evil_Bender @Lover @RadixVerum @Boomerman @RedKaiser I can’t remember the battles, but there are at least 2 occasions where the marines landed, established a beachhead, and then watched their navy buddies retreat with their supply shifts aflame.
We simply couldn’t guarantee the supply lines for double the ammunition expenditure during the early phase in the war, if not triple. Burning through a clip in the M1 goes quick, and you just keep shooting under pressure. The 1903 forces a pause in between, that greatly slows fire rate, true, but chances are the guy isn’t really hitting anything anyways, judging from the rounds-per-kill metrics