[quote=Squrmy]
Well, I wanted to play my Corporal as one of the Platoon's Machine Gunners (which is why he's armed with a standard issue LMG for the British Army). I was going to say that he had two NPC Privates with him who were also from his home Regiment in Ireland (if that was okay), who had survived the British failings on mainland Greece, and acted as his MG team ('cause from my experiences on Company of Heroes, there are two extra fellows along with any machine gunner, although I'm not sure if that's historically accurate). I could stick them under the Kewi's command, perhaps, if that's alright?
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Depends on the kind of machine gun I suppose. I think a two man team was the standard, thinking of the American 30.cal and the German MG42/34. 

A Bren would operate fine with just a single user, but you could also have a "loader" who'd be in charge of keeping the thing going (changing the mags etc) whilst your character could be the guy doing all the pointing and clicking. The loader would also be the eyes and ears, and would be yelling out targets to your character.

So yeah, in summary, you'd have an extra guy with you who'd change the mags and watch the flanks.