If you live in the UK you probably know that the kilt is pretty important to some people and that the kilt has been worn in wars before including ww2. So I suggest:
A 9 man rifleman squad that consists of: 7 riflemen, 1 AT gunner and 1 engineer (like the Chinese American riflemen squad).
Each soilder should be wearing a uniform that includes the kilt:
In campaigns wear it may not be appropriate, for example the battle of the bulge I don’t mind the uniform being changed to that of a standard squad.
They should be armed with the lee Metford:
I’m not sure if it would have still been in frontline use but I’m not too fussed about the rifle they use. The lee Metford has a 10 round magazine and is quite a bit longer than the SMLE and no.4 MK1.
•Mainly I just want to see the kilt in Enlisted but the lee Metford would be a pretty cool addition as well
Another reason I want to see the kilt added
I Wanna feel like a little cutie wearing a skirt/kilt while I play Enlisted
As I said I wouldn’t mind their uniform being reverted to the standard British uniform on maps where it’d be out of place but it would make sense in Normandy and Tunisia and maybe even in the battle of the bulge, but it may be out of place in the Pacific, but besides that it’s completely appropriate for ww2.
Interesting idea, as a Commonwealth enthusiast I’d like to give some thoughts on it if I may:
Firstly, the kilts:
By WW2 soldiers were not going into battle wearing kilts, don’t get me wrong it was still part of the dress uniform, and would not be a unusual sight in barracks away from the front lines or on other rear line personelle. Still, some oddballs definetly wore them into battle, we have several written accounts of this on both sides, a notable example being “Mad Jack” Churchill, but he was far from the only one, so it’s not a complete impossibility.
My preffered implementation of this Scottish squad would be with a single “hero character” that wears a kilt, with the rest only wearing Tam 'o Shanters, but otherwise still wearing the standard UK Battledress:
I would rather the ToS be a thing commonly accessible to all squads, but that could be done by simply having a unique variant for this propposed squad, like giving them patches or ensignias.
Secondly, the Weapon:
The Lee-Metford at this point would be very few and far between, most having been updated to function like later Enfield patterns (even replacing the barrels to Enfield barrels, effectively turning them into Lee-Enfields, because it’s the change of barrels that is the major difference between the two), though some were possibly still in storage in the far flung Dominions and colonies, I expect a few odd examples were still in military hands in places like India or New Zealand, but not the UK. Still, the Metford is remarkably close to a idea I had some while ago, and that I am going to include in my upcoming Commonwealth Rifles suggestion, that being the MLE, the “Magazine Lee-Enfield” or “Long-Lee”:
This is pre-SMLE (“Short Magazine Lee-Enfield”) by just five years, the original long rifle of the Enfield family, before being standardised on a carbine length rifle. Notable features includes a Magazine cut-off and no charger bridge, meaning it could not accept stripper clips (in British service called “chargers”) but instead the ten round magazine had to be reloaded with single cartridges (talk about a reload that ages you, huh).
My idea is that this rifle would be BR I, share the high rate of fire that its descendants have in game, but take an age and a half to reload from empty. Additionally, there would be two firing modes, one where you fire normally (and only reload upon emptying the gun or hitting the reload button, as normal), or you could engage the magazine cut-off and reload after every single shot. This would let you either panic empty your gun in emergencies but have some magazine conservation in less intense situations, I think this would be a very interesting and balanced little, I mean long, rifle as a event reward or BP reward.
These, whilst still very rare, would probably be around in greater numbers than the Lee-Metfords, some Lee-Metfords possibly even having been converted into MLEs, still they could probably be laying around in a forgotten warehouse in India or New Zealand. Still not related to the Scottish though.
Thirdly, a alternative to the Lee-Metford:
I personally would like this squad to be fully customizeable, so I could bring them everywhere and not have them be totally useless in higher BRs (and save any interesting weapons for the Battle Pass), their unique gameplay feature could instead be Scottish basket hilted swords! These were officially used even up until and including WW1, nothing stopping a nostalgic gentleman to bring his family sword into this modern conflict too! Mad Jack Churchill (just to bring up that madlad again,) carried one into battle during WW2, and possibly others too, because a Gentleman going into battle without his sword is of course imporperly dressed!
Highlander Officers sword - 1828 Pattern:
Mad Jack Churchill landing with his commando unit, basket hilt sword in hand (bottom far right):
I’d like the Rifle No. 5 Mk I to be in the tech tree, because they did eventually become adopted and widely used, these represent the UK experimentation on the subject of shortened carbines. But Australia were doing its own independent experimentation, taking SMLE Mk IIIs (instead of No. 4 rifles as the Brits and Canadians did) and shortening them, so they did look a little different, that could be the squad weapon you’re looking for!
Australian Rifle No. 6 Mk I, based on the Rifle No. 1 Mk III:
Australian shortened SMLE, another possible variation, visually distict from the British carbines that even a laymen could see the difference (yes, it’s shorter than the normal SMLE, lack of perspective makes that hard to see of course, also had a unque shortened bayonet made for it):
I Wanna feel like a little cutie wearing a skirt/kilt while I play Enlisted
