With the intention of preserving a bit of precision at least in the uniforms, it would not be bad for Darkflow to make a system that automatically equips British squadrons with United States uniforms and their customization both in Normandy and in the Pacific.
This would also play out if Darkfow at some point adds a British campaign, such as Alamein, Battle of Arnhem, Battle of Greece etc… where in said campaigns, American squadrons could only wear British uniforms.
Although the USA and the UK fought together, they did not mix their armies, as far as I know, and it really feels a bit out of place to see soldiers in British uniforms in the Pacific and D-Day.
Absolutely not!
A better compromise would be letting players turn on or off each subfaction in each campaign.
That way we could have HA Dunkirk, but for people that dont care can still fight Americans and Italians as well in Dunkirk oe whatever campaign.
an option to activate or deactivate subfactions in a specific campaign would be too complicated, I doubt that DF would even consider a similar option
The most feasible thing, and what DF could do without much problem, is to give the subfactions, in this case the United Kingdom, uniforms of their main faction. This same thing already happened with the Italians, why not do the same with the British?
You basically want to take away the freedom of choice of wearing whatever each individual player wants… just for the sake of a pathetic HA justification that doesn’t mean a much nowadays.
You’ll end equipping stuff that’s never been used there anyway. So why are specifically uniforms the issue?
But I guess your idea could be part of the HA “filter” devs were considering. If something like that will ever be a real thing.
I’d rather allow a squad to wear EVERY country uniform in their respective factions because at this point there’s no point in uniform historical authenticity so might as well to just give players their freaking freedom to dress up their squads
I hate putting Garands on british squad because AT I squad happened to be british and I don’t really want to play mixed Garand/Enfield ensemble. Either give me the ability to dress my UK squad with US uniforms or my US squad to dress with UK uniform
Seeing how i have a UK and USA line up and both fought in Normandy it would be pretty bad to be unable to have one or the other just because they never fought on the same beaches. would be good if the maps got more specific such as sword beach and Omaha beach but we are not there yet to be that specific. such as Africa maps the Commonwealth was fighting there for years before the US joined the war so for that example would be bad for USA lineups now showing as USA but as commonwealth soldiers using US guns. I think it would look even more strange than having US and UK soldiers fighting side by side.
exactly, your idea of generic squad that can be role played as anyone seems rather fitting for possible future content addition without creating new faction from scratch and I’m 1000% behind it