What is the magic?
Smoke and mortar get the MG42 fast, and with the pin difficulty versus the shock's, if get 2 shock's, the mg42 have problem's...
Or mix a Conscript with molotov, and finish... Always running to base with the MG guy's...
And i tired of see a MG42 shooting a pinned shock's squad (with low distance), but dont kill anything, just pin! Soo the shock's get impossible armor that resists a MG42! Too fun!
You should have gren unit before MG granting LOS on shocks. There is not a single reason I can think off that would make you think MG have any chance in 1v1 against shocks.
You should have always 1 more MG42 then shock squads on field, you will still use less mp for that and it will allow you to cover MGs with other MGs and cover flanks.
If shock smoke is so good, why germans never use turbomortar smoke then? It does exactly the same thing but on a bigger scale.
Or if he is using additional squads, where are your additional squads? Or you place a single MG and wait for it to be flanked?