Interim Home-Brewed German FJ Character Cards

love these!

The only thing I can spot at a first look is that many submachine guns do have Suppression Fire, but they shouldn't (unless they are NCOs, in which case they do because of that, not of the weapon).

This is a design choice really, because compared to rifles, smg are very inaccurate and use small low power cartridges, so they are very effective at small range but become useless at a longer distance. SF is equally effective at any distance, so we gave smgs a lot of dice at short distance because of their very high rate of fire, but no SF. Same is basically true for assault rifles, except that these in addition have the ability to AIM, being much more accurate weapons (mainly because of the longer barrel). Only fully automatic weapons using full power cartridges can maintain SF by themselves (and should cost a minimum of 7 points because of that). All other weapons can do so if there are at least two firing at the same time...

Also as a design choice, even some fully automatic, accurate weapons, using full power cartridges may not be given SF because they had very small magazines, like the BAR or FG42, or alternatively are given SF but not Aim. This depends mostly by the individual style of fight of a Character rather than the weapon itself, so a trigger happy Character will get SF but not Aim, a more prudent and skilled Character would get Aim but not SF. This represent well the reduced combat effectiveness of such weapons (LMG) compared to "proper" machine guns, that is MMG and HMGs on fixed mount with a service crew (that get both SF and Aim) without having to introduce extra complication like additional rules, exceptions, etc.

It also works well within the rules to simulate the reality of WW2 combat, for instance, if you have two BAR, one with SF and one with AIM, you have the exact equivalent of a fully fledged MG, which is precisely what become common practice with US infantry (one fires while the other reload)...