I agree with the argument that Enlisted should go backwards before going to Cold War.
While Id love WW1, I also think the Spanish Civil War would be a good place to start first.
It had aspects of both world wars like trench warfare but also WWII era German and Italian aircraft for instance.
If it has to be an enlisted event, so be it, but yeah like a campaign option (think pre merge) for WW1 would be really cool.
Side note when I was playing this on WT the other night I noticed one of the ‘British’ soldiers using an M1918BAR. Did the AEF actually receive BARs? I thought they came too late??
And yeah I also was reminded of Enlisted in the way the infantry chuck grenades at you. In my case infantry did actually damage my tank with a grenade, they knocked my track off so I had to repair.
Enlisted would be good as there were actually a number of vehicles and ‘tanks’ in WW1 that could be added like the Renault FT, Rolls Royce Armoured Car (these were used in WWII in some cases), Erhardt armoured car, artillery tractors, tenders, the Whippet tank etc.
An omnibus APC would be cool. I am aware this is a toy (I own this exact one) but I think it shows the vehicle off better than grainy black and white pictures.
And mini railways! (narrow gauge were used by both sides)
If you push too far in the enemy lines and get stuck/immobilised bear a trench, you’ll get AT grenades thrown at you and they do damage your tank’s modules.
Agreed.
In addition, I think Russian civil war could be really interesting:
Imagine driving a Mark V tank in Tsaritsyn near some of the same buildings you saw in the version of this city when it became Stalingrad (like Repnikova House or Gorky Theater)!
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Thank you everyone for the likes, we already surpassed “Operation Lederhosen” with its 15 hearts lmao
A WW1 event with some event squads would be so cool. It’d be a little anachronistic but at least would wouldn’t be so far gone as the goofy Halloween stuff we have now.
Absolutely would love that! I still firmly believe that a WW1 theme would fit perfectly with the Enlisted mechanics and the way the great majority of players play the game. And I honestly rather see them move “backwards” in the timeline than forward (like they sadly did in WarThunder) as it would be much more interesting (AND there are ZERO F2P WW1 games like this one out there, but tons of modern F2P shooters, so that would make the game unique, which in turn would mean players will flock to the game and result in more revenue for the developers & publisher).
I personally like all those ideas, my only question to you is some people really seem to like their tanks/vehicles and aeroplanes so not sure how the playerbase would react to a purely FPS game.
Unless we added cavalry squads in the same manner as a tank squad??
Trains would be fun too.
Boer War anyone? (I doubt anyone’s seen the film Young Winston but it has some great Boer War scenes, also of course the Australian movie Breaker Morant)
You are probably right about the vehicle players not liking it, though, it would allow for small infantry guns, like Hotchkiss cannon, gatling guns, and early Maxims.
Cool. I know Id sure love some vintage HMG gameplay.
Ive been asking for the Vickers gun to be added to Enlisted, unfortunately a lot of people dont seem to know what it is.
Us Australians used them in the jungles of New Guinea and those things are heavy as hell.
I believe the Americans sometimes used the M1917 Browning machine gun which is a similar design.
All of them are of course based on the original ‘Maxim gun’.
Side note Nordenfelt would be cool, Im thinking of the film Khartoum about the battle of the same name General Gordon VS The Mad Mahdi and theres a river steamboat which theyve put wooden planks and such and British Egyptian Army soldiers operating a Nordenfelt as well as ordinary British civilians with Martini Henry rifles etc.
I’ve done that and had infantry throwing htem from all sides without suffering any damage - but if it’s happened to you then that shows the issues with my sample size of 1 player
they shoot pretty good, got killed a couple of times during trench runs on a fokker…
Also, they LIE DOWN when I’m trying to kill them from above, lol, like, the whole trench is hiding on the floor while I’m gunning them, then when I fly by - they get up and start shooting at me.
I just bought WT golden eagles for the first time ever to unlock and keep several WW1 tanks I didn’t have the time to unlock during the week.
On the other hand, I would never pay anything, not even a cent, for zombies/heroes/fortnite bs in Enlisted despite it being basically my main game unlike WT which I just installed specifically for the event.
Finally had a Garford killed by 1 - saw the grenade rolling around on the roof and thought - well this will be telling… BOOM!
Also found that MG’s will kill the infantry in trenches - I’d tried earlier in the event but hadn’t gotten any and just used main guns - AP or HE made no difference you had to get a direct hit!
But now MG’s work too… for a definition of “now” that may be forever only I didn’t realise!
shrapnel shells provide some aoe damage to infantry, iirc
HE filler is like 100g tnt, not enough to make a big shockwave and WT removed splinters from their HE shells for balancing against tanks with open top, so, the only thing that kills in HE shell is a shockwave, so you need much more tnt to get splash damage.
