Trying to get 50 kills to unlock the Chauchat is a series of suicide missions for me, and I'm only halfway there.

In fairness, I'm a noob to gaming, but I do pretty well playing aggressively with the BAR or Madsen.

The clunky Lewis is ill-suited for that style of play.

I try engaging at longer ranges, but a player has to be pretty dumb to sit & take the 6 hits needed for a kill. I find it very hard to track a moving target through a scope. If the target is a scout, they just laugh & dispatch me with one shot.

Any tips, like a Lewis-friendly map?

On the plus side, it seems to be making me better with the BAR.

I hope the Showshow is worth it.

Thanks.

Good advice on the xbow & gas, never though of it. I find the xbow HE pretty usless for anything but getting killed trying to use it on vehicles. Incendiaries are pretty good for softening up, too, if I can open fire first after throwing. I've gotten squad wipes that way, but using a BAR or Madsen. I have definitely tried to avoid CQB with the Lewis.

I swear you could measure TTK on a calendar! Inside 12 meters I can get bayoneted or bludgeoned before that clunker kills.

Though I detest camping, I do have a couple of nice sites on DOM maps. Camped with the Madsen LW, I can usually count on at least 5 kills in a round, but the Lewis is so dang slow I'm doing good to get 2 or 3. Picking up sprinting enemies in the scope is slow. Coupled with the pathetic TTK, they can easily disappear before I land 5 hits. Multiple incoming enemies usually spells doom, even though I'm on them way before they see me.

Muchas gracias for the replies.

Made it last night

Thanks!

Quoted from "Hau_ruck"

I was hopeless with any scoped LMG when I first got the game, but now I find them amazing. I think a lot of it is being able to take advantage of the zoom and having the muscle memory to fire accurately at mid range. Strafing works pretty well with LMGs as well. Don't stand still unless you absolutely have to. The lewis is accurate enough at most mid ranges to hit anyway and with the reduced peripheral vision it will be really hard spot scouts and medics lining up easy headshots on you.

Even though I despise camping, I did find a couple of sweet spots on my favorite DOM maps and scored the final 18 in 3 rounds.

I tried some of the long-range shooting on Monte Grappa where I could view a couple of objevtives. That didn't work so well, mainly because idiot team mates kept committing one of my pet peeves: spawning in on me and immediately blazing away at targets they can't hope to hit. Time to get the hell away! On the plus side, it helps me spot targets when they drew enemy fire (and hopefully got killed!). When I spawn in on someone prone and see no immediate fire, I get the hell away ASAP so as not to blow their position.

The Chautchat looks promising in CQB.