New partisan squads are one of the best new classes, that they could have introduced in the game (because deep infiltration and countering grey zone campers). The fact that this is the first class which will be available like a premium, a event squad and a campaign squad for every in-game faction just makes it even better (the paratroopers are still waiting for campaign squads).
The fact that there will be 3 USSR, 3 german/italian, 2 allied, 2 japanese squads offer a wide variety for squads. Examples :
Examples for The Eastern Front
1.Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1942 - 1949) - carried guerilla warfare against USSR (mostly), Nazi Germany, Polish Underground State and Armia Ludowa. If you want more information check : Ukrainian Insurgent Army - Wikipedia.
2 The Forest Brothers (1944 - 1956) - guerilla warfare against USSR. Effective in slowing the soviet advances into the Baltics. Guerrilla war in the Baltic states - Wikipedia
3 Armija Krajowa (1942 - 1945) - sabotage of Whermacht operations on the territory of Poland (not aligned to USSR, more to the Allies), very famous for the Warsaw Uprising. One of the biggest underground resistance forces in Europe. I thin it’s very likely to be added in the game. Home Army - Wikipedia
4 Yugoslav partisans (1941 - 1945) - one of the biggest underground resistance forces, definetely very famous. Yugoslav Partisans - Wikipedia
5 Russian Liberation Army (1943 - 1945) - politicaly aligned to Nazi Germany, more of a military formation, but still an option. Russian Liberation Army - Wikipedia
Examples for The Western Front
1 French resistance (1940 - 1944) - most famous of all. I will honestly be surprised if Gaijin doesn’t add them. French Resistance - Wikipedia
2 Italian Resistance (1943 - 1945) - good addition to a future italian campaign, no other comment. Italian resistance movement - Wikipedia
Sorry I couldn’t find more notible examples for the Western Front.
Examples for the Pacific
1 Volunteer Fighting Corps (1945 - 1945) - not a real possibilty, intended for Operation Downfall, to be used against allied troops, but the operation was scrapped for being too costly and to test the power of the atomic bomb. Volunteer Fighting Corps - Wikipedia
2 Kempeitai (1881 - 1945) - a better option, the organization itself is a secret police (like maybe counting Gestapo as a legitimate german option for all fronts). Kempeitai - Wikipedia
3 Merrill’s Marauders (1943 - 1944) - pretty effective and interesting military unit.Merrill's Marauders - Wikipedia
4 Z Special Unit (1942 - 1945) - not many people mention it, but seems like a good option. Z Special Unit - Wikipedia
Very grateful that we have them. Captures the spirit of armed civilians (they look more like gangsters, which isn’t a bad thing). Hope we see more of them in the very near future.
What are your thoughts?
P.S.
I didn’t cover much of the german resistance itself but we already have Vokssturm ( the developers are free to add more formations if they can’t think of anything else). Another, unique choice would be would be Hitler Youth (Hitler Youth - Wikipedia). I’m not sure if I can put the official flag of the Hitler Youth without breaching community guidelines. So I will just show this image :
The Hitlerjugend was not mobilized in a way like the SS. They were simply sent to the Volkssturm or normal Wehrmacht or Waffen SS divisions instead of being a poltical militia.
What? No. The Werwolves were a propaganda army by Himmler and Göbbels. They killed a couple of majors at the end of WW2 but never reached a feasible size or strength to be a realistic threat, and barely managed to survive WW2. They never even killed Allied soldiers.
Whatever sources you have, they are wrong.
Any right-wing terror act past 1945 was committed by other groups.
it is one of the worst classes that they could have introduced cause of spawn camping. even now spawn camping is possible on few maps cause of bad map design and with guerillas it will be even worse cause it will not be only present on bad maps.
No, it’s not a solution to grey zone camping. Just allows for gameplay other than pressing “w”, something different.
I want to see a French resistance squad. As event or premium maybe. 1 or 2 women in it, so some ppl asking for them constantly could get sated, hopefully.
I don’t like them explicitly being called partisans because I view the class as a whole more of a raider/ commando and we have the potential to receive professional commando squads to this class like the OSS, British Commandos, etc
So much so that I almost think they should just rename the class to commando. Sounds better. But then again some squads we may get for this class may lean more on the partisan side like the French Resistance. So I guess Guerilla is fine as a catch all……for now
At very best spawn-campers will make the game worse. People running on foot 300- 400 m to get a revenge-kill on a tank. Players wandering clueless on a map and less players focused on playing the objective.
In worst case (use of spawn-campers by experienced players) - blatant spawn-camping + faster cap of points in offence mode. Toxic gameplay whom victim will be mainly novice players.
Not to mention that adding spawn-campers (armed German civilians) into streets of Stalingrad and shores of Normandy is simply retarded (not consistent with historical accuracy).
Historical accuracy (about time periods and units) is gone (in part) since the merge. Also for balance partisans aren’t allowed near spawn points and don’t have more than one grenade. The only mines they can use are TNT charges. I think at least it’s good that the defenders/attackers could get rid of enemy tanks that don’t come near the objective at all, while the only opportunity they have is another more skilled vehicle squad. I’m frustrated with teammates and enemies who don’t care at all about the game itself and just farm xp and silver. Most battles I struggle to get more than 4000 battle score, because I build rallies and play as a assault/support player. And on another level you can be pissed off about snipers, mortars, tanks
and planes, because of the same reason - camping. The game is about camping and building rallies. That’s the whole point.
Also remember paratroopers - they used to piss people off too, but it turned out that there were flaws to them, and people accepted it. There isn’t the most OP squad of all time and developers are busy with balancing the economy, weapons and map design.
