MG 34 - MMG/HMG what's the difference

[Mobhack]

MMG, LMG, SFMG, HMG. You say potayto and I say potato. The meaning of these acronyms depends on particular armies, eras, wargame rules or other flavours of the month.

Same goes with things like "what's a howitzer" - that used to be a simple question of a short barrel, uses bagged charges for variable zones, and 45 degrees or more elevation. Now you have "gun-howitzers", L50 barrelled "howitzers" as some armies dont use a gun-howitzer designator and so on. What exactly is a howitzer these days tends to be defined by the use of variable charge increments, guns (if an army still use them) will have fixed charges, whether bagged or in a cartridge case, though some guns might have a "supercharge" additional increment.

[Wiking]

Regardless of what one army or another calls it, I think for general wargaming and Steel Panthers purposes we can just call them LMG/MMG/HMG and get on with our lives...for those of us who want to be neurotic there's always MOBHACK