Recently a thread was published with a translation of a topic from the RU forum about the secession of Italy. It’s time for Britain, I’ve decided to translate thread from RU forum about it.
Overall, this is a logical extension of the Italy topic.
Adding the Italian faction alone without their most important opponent, Britain, doesn’t make much sense.
I’ll start with the main question WHY is this? Quoting the previous topic (but rewriting it a bit).
- The first and gameplay important reason is to optimize the US research branch. It’s cluttered with British samples, instead of full potential content for the US that never made it into the game. People are asking for 20 round Thompsons on 2BR and other more iconical weapons. The presence of british models in huge numbers is a vestige of the campaigns. Also, the long research branch prevents new players to grind to the top weapons and slows down the already long process of grind. Splitting the USABRITES into USA and Commonwealth will solve this problem. The US will not be lost, after all they had an amazing industry, brilliant gunsmiths and many interesting pieces of equipment and weaponry.
- The second reason is that adding a new side of the conflict can give the game more depth, variety and interest, help enrich the game world and increase the replayability of the game. Perhaps this is the obvious aspect. Moving on.
- It may not be obvious, but the addition of Britain faction will can attract brits and history nerds. Only here we have real British commandos with fast-firing Vickers-k, not this pathetic soyboys camping gameplay from Hell let lose. Anyway, if the marketers work well, it can be badass.
HOW TO REALIZE?
I will rewrite the Italy topic as well. First of all, some weapons will definitely be cut from the US branch. Why some? Because if irl (for example) Sten was used only by British and Canadians, USA used m3 grease gun and various models of Thompsons, rn in the game stens are underpopular and m3 too so nothing change, Thompsons on 2 BR don’t exist exept 1 premium squad. Lanchester is top Allies smg rn so if devs will separate Allies, US can get 20-round mag thompsons as top 2br gun. Some british options can remain in the US research branch. Like a couple of Brens, or we can expect adding Benet-Mercie machine rifle, M1909 or lower BR for 1918. Tanks: US faction does not need British tanks banally because of the huge number of their own. But do not need to take away anything from the players who already managed to purchase them, because the British and the U.S. fought side by side in many theaters of war, so there is no need to take away anything from the players “by force”. But it is possible to give the opportunity to transfer some weapons between Allies. This will simplify the grinding in the early stages of existence for the new faction. Also I propose to optimizing US branch not at once and remove the British samples gradually, showing the player a timer to disappear. Thus, many players will make their relocation to Britain as painless as possible for themselves.
New faction bonus. I don’t think there’s any point in chewing this up. Give a bonus of 50-200% to silver\experience, etc. at least for the first 2 weeks of Britain, then reduce it to 30%, then remove it completely.
Also to the question of the implementation of the new side: flashed on the forum idea of combined battles. This is when in battle you can meet both the player for the U.S. and the British factions and in the same team. Which is historically correct. D-Day isn’t just about the US, there were Brits and Canadians there too. Like this: player gets to Tunisia, and there are 6 players - the U.S. with the appropriate tanks, squads, etc., 4 players are British with weapons, equipment of the British branch. Probably need to remake the matchmaking here? I don’t know.
What about the maps? Where are these battles going to be?
For starters, we have in the game so far several theaters of war, where the British army has historically been present - the Ardennes, Tunisia and Normandy and Gavutu (against Japan). With Tunisia it’s clear, everything is fine there. Within Normandy I can hardly add anything. The British contingent took part in the battle for Gavutu, which is in the game. But I don’t think that’s enough. It would be cool to see Burma. I’m attaching the best thread about it on the forum so far for reference. And a few pictures to attract attention. (The author goes on to cite the Battle of Burma as an example.)
(here should be a link to a topic about the battle for Burma from the Russian forum.)
Such theaters of war would look as pleasant as possible.
Would it be a full-fledged side? Or is it just a piece of the U.S.? First of all, I propose to strengthen the British research branch with Lendlease in advance. It is historically appropriate, gameplaywise necessary, looking okay. Secondly, under this condition - yes, it will be a full-fledged side with its own strengths and weaknesses.
A week in photoshop and the branch of Germany (I took it because it is the completed) turns into a branch of Britain. Immediately I say this is a screenshot of the picture, the full version is below in the spoiler. It is huge and breaks the forum a bit.
Here it is in full size. Open the spoiler and click to open the image in a new window.
Buildings for the Engineer
So, the strong sides will be a wide branch of machine guns (commando fans will be glad), excellent APC (variations of kangaroos did not fit in r.t.), excellent paratroopers, absolutely gorgeous branch of aviation, a wide choice of artillery tanks, there is a Sherman Firefly with tulip missiles, and Tortoz, as an answer to Ho-Ri. Britain’s weakness will be the SMG branch (no assault rifle, but there are exported Thompsons), well, and the controversial auto rifles, where I tearfully attached a Lewis auto rifle, sorry. There’s probably a lot of debatable point here in the topic, something not at the right rank or something. Maybe there’s something missing? But this is just a raw concept or prototype. Maybe in time I’ll add to it, fix it. (He won’t do it, in the Russian forum topic closed.) And I apologize for the quality, not everywhere it’s super, but dragging hundreds of times the same layers I’m tired of fixing and tweaking everything.
