How to find best Infantry weapons

[Brashin]

Hi guys, new to the game and have received some great tips on playing vanilla MoV. I do have a question though and its in regards to the infantry weapons.

For example as Im playing through the Russian campaign and I come across a MG-42 vs the Russian MG which is better. I believe the MG-42 to be better than the Russian equivelant just from watching stuff from the history channel and whatnot, however can someone point me in the right direction to a thread or something that says the German rifle is better than the Russian one?

Also when picking a single soldier I would like to know what weapon he is best at. What I do now is I have to equip him with a rifle, SMG and MG and then equip each one to see how many stars each one has. Is there a quicker way to do this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks