Captured Weapon have long been something talked about in gama and while most seem very split on it i think the best way to implement “Captured Weapons” would be at Br3 as Br3 is where weapons can either bless you with a down teir and you get to stomp out Br2-3 or you get uptiered to Br5 where you’ll probably get stomped out, i think it best that only 2 weapons from the others camp be possible for capture As to how you actually “captrure” weapons is the neat part, you don’t. Instead you would buy them for a outrageous inflated amount of silver and i don’t know what others might feel about price wise but my rough estimation is 10k silver, maybe more but certainly not less, along with beforehand actually having to unlock the weapon in the originating faction as example you unlock SVT-38 Sniper in Soviet faction before being able to buy it for Germany at a price of 10k silver. as to the weapons that should be possible options ive gotten my pick on what I THINK should be and those would be the following: Germany: SVT-38 (Sniper) PPSH(Box) Japan: IF Soviets ever face off against Japn i think DP-27 and SVT-38 would be optimal captures and from the American/British i think it best for the M1928A1 Thompson , I think thats the Br3 one lol but secondly the the BAR 1918A1 as long as the Browning M1918 gets moved to Br2. American/British: for captured items from japan it doesn’t offer much though the things i came up with were the Shin Gunto Type 95 and the Type 99 with Grenade launcher. And from Germany i think both Soviets and Americans would have to share these captures and itd have to be 2 of the following 4 (ZK-383, MP35/1, Grewehr 98 with scope mount or Kar98k with GGP/40) Soviets: IF they ever face japan the possible captyre options would be the Sig 1920 and KE7 and i already mentioned options from Germany. With these suggestion i think it keeps faction uniqueness still intact and the point of captured weapons here Isn’t balance at all but to simply patch some holes gear wise and also give more spice to the game per say you like playing the American faction but fancy the look of Japan’s swords so you grind out japan till Br2 where you can then unlock the type 95 and pay a outrageous amount of silver to use it for the American camp and marvel at your overpriced sword that you worked for. This is my first time actually posting and probably ranted for too long but just wanted to throw it out there and see, if you have a better suggestion on different weapons that should be up for possible capture id like to her but i think just keep it in Br3 and not smth so meta that itd make the game be a bunch of Americans or Soviets running around with MG34’s. Also if you flat out disagree lol.
There’s nothing like captured weapons, there’s only copypasted weapons.
If you want to play specific faction’s equipment, play that specific faction. It is that simply.
There has to be a limit like gold weapon orders so 4 at minimum and the Soviets and the allies have plenty So what you selected is good enough and if the allies or Soviets were to ask for anymore that would be outrageous considering they already have our anti tank weapons already.
this argument falls out of place when every faction has ofenror and soviets having panzerfausts, although i agree i dont truly wish to see a just copy and paste game though i also thought to make them have certain ammunition conversions or field modifications but decided itd be more easiy for developers to implement like this instead of waiting 2 years before seeing this
I agree with this and thought of a different options besides that on being they momentarily pop up at still massive silver or event order cost and these momentary pop up opportunitys would be most likely large notable battles where faction A & B clashed and for said faction A & B the weapons would temporarily be available though idk i like your idea as well
It’s up to the developers or we could start asking for the fins and the French or the polls
I would love some captured PTRS41 for the german ATR line, german ATR line kinda lacking when it comes to rate of fire.
I think outside Br3 is where you could tip the balance, thats why i purposly stated Br3 as this br is a massive wild card where you either dominate or get shafted, i think outside Br3 should be left strictly for events and only certain weapons on the lower end of Br3 being allowed as to still have the original faction still having a edge if you choose to use their gear.
I disagree with them, captured weapons should be very limited, and only those that have significant modifications. Captured tanks and aircraft should not exist either, I previously proposed a captured APC for the Soviets, but now I have changed my mind and we should never have such things.
I would rather have some captured event tanks instead
Germany doesn’t really need captured SVT as they have their own G43 DF just need to downtier it to BR3 and buff G41 reload speed. Fedorov Avtomat and RD-44 are very problematic atm so better find for their equivalent instead of lazily copy pasting them to both German and Japanese TT.
Well, as I said:
But if you want to give Germany captured tanks, KT goes to America:
Give them STG44 at BR5 and Faust 60 at BR3 too and we will finally be able to kill Germany once and for all.
I agree itd be better to have proper equipment that competes against each other and not lazy copy and paste but when making the suggestion i was making smth we could see down the road in a few months, not few years, waiting for proper fixes and balances takes forever in this game and i see captured weapons as a bandaid, not permanent solution and only very limited considered weapons in Br3 is what i think is safest for balance and TRYING to keep faction uniqueness
I agree with you mostly and entirely vehicle wise even if id like a kv1 with the german 75 lol. I think its a big no due to it opening Pandora’s box and then you have german t34s fighting soviet panthers and at that point itd be a big face palm, as for captured weapons as more replys come it paints a clear pictrue that they should be limited and i can understand why, and the modification i agree with too for the most part, i agree i wouldn’t like to see complete 1:1 stat copy and smth should be different to signify its a captured weapon.
I had a thought and posted about a year ago that maybe it would be cool if players could pickup weapons off the battlefield and be able to keep a few. For example, if I’m playing a level two match Germans vs Soviets, as a German I could pickup an Aragon or a PPS off the battlefield, and when the game ended would have a choice of keeping it and it would be added to my inventory. I would limit it to one of a certain model, but have a total of maybe 4 total different captured weapons in your inventory. You could use them in battle, but wouldn’t be able to reload from your squads ammo crate, but, you could reload from the enemy crate. 
However, I wouldn’t just limit it to enemy captured weapons, so if you don’t have an M2 Stinger in your Allied inventory and while playing Allies and pick one up off the battlefield, you should have the option to keep, and this you would be able to reload from Allied ammo crates.
It was just a thought I had last year, posted, got some likes some dislikes, but an idea of captured weapons that we don’t have to buy.
you need to break up you’re writing a wall of text is not fun to read. but youre also going after the best gear i am surprised you did not also go for the german machine guns and M1 Garand, but i agree they need to be variants, differences in appearances caliber or rate of fire like the Thompsons Japan go are both different in caliber, if you checked out a few of my threads you would see we crazily have more then a few Thompson’s left like the persuader and the 1923.