I made a suggestion for old para squads to get interchangeable weapons but realised many of them have almost gamebreakingly good weapons that would then be able to be dispersed over other squads.
So here to sorta re-suggest:
Add US, UK, German and Japanese para squads (either TT, event or premium) that can have interchangeable primary weapons.
Personally really want a British para squad with Enfields and Stens like they usually had and not these super rare/experimental LMG’s or SMG’s.
A US squad with Garands and Thompsons and a German squad with early war weapons like the Kar98 which would be their regular weapon in the initial invasions of other European countries.
Event/premium squads should still retain some sort of identity with an exclusive weapon. If the squads are forced to use a certain weapon you can balance their gimmick BR wise by having a copareatively worse weapon for the BR the squad is in.
If you allow interchangeable weapon slots on a squad with a gimmick you just devalue every othere squad without that gimmick as why use a normal assaulter squad if you can use a para squad with the same weapons without a real downside over a normal squad. This means to DF beeing a paratrooper is no advantage to not beeing one.
USSR para where stupid for that same reason (and again gamebreacking because crate exists with BR3 weapons even for BR 1)
Interchangable paratrooper should always have their weapon br+1 as their BR to make them less of an universal upgrade in my opinion. Meaning your USSR paratropper with PPS 43 would be BR 3 instead of BR 2 (stoping at BR 5 for obvious reasons) as a drawback. This would make paratrooper less good in head on engagements but why do those if you can gain the advantage by flanking due to your ability instead.
That sounds like it should be a separate suggetsion.
This suggestion is for adding 4 new squads of aforementioned nationalities with interchangeable weapons.
I’d be up for 8 squads with this feature, 2 events total. 2 Japanese, 1 USA, 1 UK, 1 German, 1 Italian and 2 USSR. That would be one for every nationality in the game minimum while giving every faction equal attention.