Whats criminal is that Japan, with all the Samourai roleplaying and actual field deployed body armor (including leg armor!) has non of it in game: Come on devs, give us some nice Japanese body armor, would so help faction variety/flavor!
Japan really experimented with body armor as a counter to superior US industrial base/firepower; lots of different designs have been documented:
For the whichever Emperor! 
Don’t forget if it’s added make sure it has 10% damage reduction like the Soviets and Germany needs their own body armor as well considering the Soviets have it and apparently the new event squad is possibly going to have body armor as well.
Only Sovies get body armor
Germans had lobster armor in ww1
I know I’ve seen it when I was messing around in the editor
Its good and cool but its also completely out of time frame.
Id be good to get something relevant for the wartime, there were some reports of German Pioneer units using SN-42 similar plates in some operations.
This armor is good for Japanese soldiers.
It looks like this.
I have a photo of me actually wearing it.
Their mission is to record delicious restaurants along the road.
I like the idea, especially for special squads. It would be nice to have some extra protection from the American .45cal smgs.
While they’re at it: it would be nice if they could give Japanese helmets 10% damage reduction so they’re in line with all the other nations
I rather see Soviet body armor getting real penalties like slower movement speed, instead of throwing armor around in a WW2 shooter, where this shouldn’t really be a thing.
Im all for some penalties as well, but if it was used IRL I want it ingame. And Japan actually used it.
When it comes to “actually used it,” it will mean that every faction should have their own body armor, as that includes examples for use by air force plane gunners and occupied area security forces.
