Like the title says, I would like to be able to add gas masks on my soldiers as cosmetics.
I already saw topics on the forum about it, most of you were against the idea.
The most arguments I’ve seen are :
- It was not used a lot by soldiers, only few of them (ofenrohr and flamethrower).
- The game would look to much like Battlefield or any innacurate games.
I’m writing this topic to show that even if gas masks were not used by the majority of soldiers, many of different classes were using it from time to time. I’ll write specifically about German Gas Mask, I’ve not enough knowledges about other countries.
Here is one of the masks that could be available for cosmetics.
During the war, Germany produced magnetic gas masks due to a lack of supplies, the magnetic parts being blue.
Here are some footage of german soldiers wearing gas masks during trainings.
A picture of a german rifleman wearing a gm24 gas mask.
A picture of a another soldier wearing a gm24 gas mask.
A picture of a motorcycle soldier wearing a gas mask.
An picture of a Panzershrek (ofenrohr) soldier wearing gas masks to avoid gas, in game the soldier is automatically equipped with the gas mask.
A picture of a flame thrower soldier, I don’t think in game the soldier has a gas mask.
A picture of a waffen ss gunner (MG42) wearing a gas mask.
A picture of a paratrooper (fallschirmjäger) with gas a mask.
Gas masks were used by German soldiers for multiple reasons, the two majors one :
- Gas and smoke protection (obviously)
- Wind breaker (motorcyclists or soldiers during winter on eastern front)
Gas weapons were never used during WWII because they were feared by both sides. Gas were more dangerous and effective than in WWI and using it would mean the others would use it too.
Soldiers and populations were ready to use gas masks.
Germany had a lot of “nerve gasses”, terrible chemical weapons. But did not use it because of the fear other coutries had it too. In fact, the other countries had not enough of these chemical weapons to harm Germany.
So, in Enlisted the introduction of gas masks as cosmetics would be welcomed. 200 gold each would prevent the massive use of them from players 
