Chinese were a big player against the japanese and they used a lot of allied equipment, so they could go either way but my suggestion is that they go into the russian tech tree to fill in some of the gaps or be foldered weapons (since a lot of the chinese used weapons were imports or captured)
Well. Then you could also just add Land-Lease and captured stuff the Soviets got from the Germans and not straight a nation with stuff the Soviets didnt even proto tested or digged up from the Great War.
Where-else should the Chinese soldiers go? To Africa?
If you don’t care about those Chinese weapon, the problem of soldier itself is actually easier to solve.
They can just wear Soviet uniform and join their match just like Italy joining Germany.
I’ve been thinking about this, I don’t think it would work unless they were their own 5th faction rather than foldering them into soviets or allies. And they did have a wide variety of weapons(a lot of German stuff).
That being said I think they would only go as far as BR3 or 4
The La Qing En could be their br2/3 semi auto.
As for which Chinese it was historically the nationalists that fought the Japanese the most (even patriot movies made in china show that) so id say all squads start as nationalist Chinese and then the customization can change that.
Also the soviets did fight the Japanese in 1939 and then later in 1945 so there’s two map campaigns for soviets v Japanese.
Could have it where the unique quality about China is they can bring 1 or 2 extra rifleman squads.
Spam the battlefield with bodies!
I like they idea of each faction exceling in something, America the best planes, Germany the best tanks, Soviets the best SMGs, and Japan the best suicidal charges!
No, no not really a good idea. I’d rather see the French added, out of the two victims they would be more tolerable.
However, I would like to see matches with joint operations, both American and Soviet aid against Japan. It may be a little complicated but could end up interesting.
The second idea which would be interesting would be adding them as PvE campaigns. They’d be much better suited to tell a story through espionage and subterfuge rather than frontline martyrdom. The French Marquis and Chinese Nationalists were both not that good on their own and required our aid, but with the correct implementation they could be a good addition to the game.
Without these ideas or until you rewrite history, stop suggesting we add China as a nation, they weren’t as big of a player as really a victim.