

Remember, this is a gun that excels in capture objectives, so allow yourself to hunker down somewhere safe and mow down anybody who walks into your sightline. The best attachment that you can use to increase the Automaton’s damage range is the Anastasia Sniper barrel. Focus on recoil control to really make it a beam of gunfire, with the Stippled Grip or Krausnick S91 Padded stock, or any number of the various muzzle attachments that help in this regard. To have your AR shooting like Robin Hood's arrow, you'll want these attachments for your Vanguard Automaton loadout: Muzzle: F8 Stabilizer Barrel: Anastasia Sniper Optic: Slate Reflector Stock: Empress Broadsword Underbarrel: M3 Ready Grip Rear Grip: Stippled Grip Proficiency: Sleight of Hand Kit. Josh ‘SalvationsElite’ Roeloffs, a Call of Duty esports content creator, has picked apart the loadouts used by CDL pros to put together the three best Vanguard Ranked loadouts for you to use. LMGs aren't run-and-gun weapons, so build yours for defensive fighting: aka, staying in place and spraying ammo from behind cover, usually while mounted on something. These are the three best Vanguard ranked loadouts you can use right now: MP40 + Ratt. Combine that with a 125 round starting magazine and it's a real standout in its class, provided you use it right.


It's a gun with punch, but one that's a little easier to wrangle in a confrontation. The MG42 is the easiest gun of its type to control (though that's by the standards of LMGs, which means it still jumps about like a salmon, only slightly less so), which is surprising considering its high fire rate. This behemoth of a gun is probably as good as LMGs get in Vanguard right now, despite being a starting weapon.
