Characteristics
Overview
The firing mechanism of a submachinegun. Used in construction of a weapon that can fire pistol ammo fully automatic.
After a week of monuments you open the component box and find three SMG bodies. That is three kits waiting to happen, and the trick is giving each body a job. The Custom SMG is the cheap one you hand a farmer or leave in the locker by the back door, since losing it barely hurts. The Thompson keeps hitting further out, so it goes to whoever fights between the door and the treeline. Both build at a Level 2 workbench from a body, a spring and some HQM.
The MP5A4 waits for a Level 3 bench and wants two springs, but many players rate it the best of the three for raids and base defence.
The body has no research and no blueprint, so the whole supply is crates, dead players and recycling. Treat each one as a gun you have not built yet, not as scrap: recycled on its own it gives about 15 scrap and a little HQM.
Tip
A worn-out SMG belongs in the recycler, not on a shelf. The ordinary one gives the body back half the time and the red one three times in four, so a broken Thompson often turns into a fresh Custom for the farm kit.
Recycling
At power grid stage 2 a green recycler works at 60% instead of 50%. Yields depend on the recycler.
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