You know the deal, what's your favorite, what's your least favorite, tips and tricks, etc.
First tip: single-shot mode is underused, or at least I think it is, since I hardly ever liberate an enemy's SMG and have it in single-shot when I pick it up. The Beretta, both Stens and both Thompsons have single-shot mode (while the Grease Gun fires so slowly it may as well have it as well) and in the right circumstances it makes all the difference. Indeed, I rock the single-shot automatically and only switch to full auto when traveling from point A to point B and enemies may appear out of nowhere. You don't need me to explain single-shot tactics to any of you but I find you live longer when you're taking your time and keeping your weapon in single-shot encourages cautious behaviour.
Second tip: learn to fire from the hip. Iron sights take time to bring up, even with SMGs and every second the other guy isn't dead is a second he could be killing you. You keep a wider peripheral vision as well.
Third tip: aim for the knees. While you may inch around a corner aiming chest-high with a rifle, aiming a foot lower with an SMG allows the inevitable recoil to bring the gun up and give you more chances to hit, which is obvious, but something I often forget until it's too late.
Last but not least, I'm sure you all know how much of a boner I have for the sweetass pick-up kits on most maps, and these can be a savior for you when inevitably run into the spawnable SMG being unvavailable all round.
Observe: Trench broom always unavailable on Fall of Tobruk? Lucky there's 3 or 4 Thompson kits with HE grenades scattered around the place (replaced with MP40 kits featuring geballtes and a wrench when the Axis have the flags nearby). Sten unavailable on Goodwood, or just hate the Thompson SL kit? Plenty of Sten SL kits hanging around on tables in Cagny. US maps are scattered with Grease Gun and Thompson kits, and I've had many maps where I spawn as your bog standard rifleman every time and hunt down an SMG without ever needing to actually spawn with one.
So what are your tips and tricks for SMGs? I know there's a couple sort-of SMG threads here but let's get a really good one going and hopefully we all play the better for it. What guns do you like and what ones could you miss the God damn Hindenburg with?
I'd rank them in order from favorite to least like this:
1 Sten - ultimate room-cleaner, with the bonus of feeling like a sexy French resistance fighter with it.
2 Grease Gun - slow rate of fire allows great accuracy.
3 M1A1 Thompson - good accuracy and on seemingly every non-Africa map.
4 Thompson (20) - seems more accurate than the Thompson with the drum, never hard to find either.
5 MP40 - accurate out to great distances and easy to group shots; not a fan of the sights, though.
6 Thompson (50) - hard to control, but in single-shot works well and sheer volume of bullets is often enough.
7 Sten (silenced) - the power of the normal Sten, but unfortunately you can't make a racket while using it.
8 Beretta - Lots of you swear by it but I can't hit anything with it, the sights just piss me off.
So don't be shy, everyone who will ever make a single post on this forum will have a tip or opinion worth adding to this thread, so contribute!