Following the introduction of the NKVD event squad for the USSR I would like to see the Kempeitai in-game. It was the military police of the Empire of Japan during WW2.
I have in mind a 5-man assaulter squad with 4 assaulters and an engineer. They would be armed with the SIG MKMS SMG. It was developed in Switzerland and saw limited sales in China during the civil war. It could fire both the 9mm Parabellum as well as the 7.63mm Mauser cartridge. It had a RoF of 900 RPM and could hold a 40-round magazine.
you will never see them in the game cause they are japanese equivalent of gestapo… and you know how devs are regarding any war crime related stuff(by nazis)…
I came to the WWII game. It would be logical to see NKVD, SS, Kempeitai and others here. Besides, SS and NKVD are already in the game (although SS obviously has a worse reputation, but we already have a large number of their units in the game).
look my 731 unit post, it even end closed and before they say me “they never go combat” I GET IT,but they have a bunch of soldiers for their “field tests” (if you know what it means) and I have photos of them, so yes we are screwd xD
You are so right
We already have war criminal squads for Russia and Germany, lets add the Japanese version too
Peadot uniforms, Premium Squads in Peadot, NKVD Reinforcements, and now a Kempeitai Secret Police event. I personally cant wait to LARP as the most evil participants of WW2
I am still pissed about what they did with my 731 one, I know they where huge monsters…but, c´mon man we have SS,we have NKVD and similar shit, why we can´t have jap nice things too
bro not every SS or NKVD unit was criminal—they were part of major battles and actually fought in WWII, so their presence in the game makes sense.
But Unit 731? That’s on a whole different level. It’s comparable to Auschwitz’s guards or the Gestapo, and there’s no place for that kind of content in a game.
keep it about actual combat units!
Back to the topic itself, I don’t really want another Chinese trophy, I really like Japanese weapons, Japanese designers had their own take on what makes them so different from US or USSR weapons at times. Generally it would be logical to get Japan a guerrilla squad from the event. For all I know, airfield personnel could often remain behind the front lines as the American military moved on. Plus, such squads often modified airplane machine guns. It seems to me they would have been well suited as “guerrillas”:
But getting back to the Kempeitai, I think it would be great to arm them with a modification of the ZB 26 for the 6.5mm cartridge:
We also have a Type 11 modification for armored vehicles, the Type 91. I consider the Type 11 a very original machine gun, symbolizing its special way in the Japanese armament industry, the distinctive features of this model are the larger hopper (45 rounds) and the possibility of installing optics:
okey, you start it, you want soldiers, HERE YOU HAVE them, the 731 HAVE soldiers, and I refuse share the field tests, but you know what they did, everyone we know, but if we have the damn SS and the NK they should be too, we have stuff who never enter in combat like AS-44 or Ho-Ri already in game, what you say don´t have sense
I agree with making them an event squad but please with a different gun,
Regarding the SIG SMG
I know that one image showing a SIG MP 1930 (not the same as the MKMS btw) is occasionally brought up and there’s another book mentioning it but beyond that there’s pretty much no confirmation at all if this was ever the case (and even if, only confined to a few Mengjiang body guards).
The image is from “Chinese Civil War Armies 1911-49” by P. Jowett btw, since people often repost it without a source.
The other mention:
From “Rays of the Rising Sun: Armed Forces of Japan’s Asian Allies 1931-45: Volume 1: China and Manchukuo” by Jowett, Philip S. Pg.56
Back to the Kempeitai
Now regarding what they’d actually be armed with, usually just handguns and ofc their swords, but there’s this image I found a while ago showing them with a few other guns (Type 38 carbine, SIG Bergmann and ZB26).
I really don’t like the idea of reusing Chinese captured guns once again but in this case it would be fitting for once.
And considering how popular the ZB26 was with Japanese troops its honestly weird that of all the captured and reused guns this one isn’t on the Japanese side yet.
Maybe to make it more interesting they could go with the ZB30 instead and instead of the 20rnd mag a 30rnd one which was used by China at the time as well.
From " China’s Small Arms of the 2nd Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)" by Bin Shih Pg.156
allied ones are just unlucky casualties of war 
