I am, yet again, trying to raise general awareness about the odd (and, I dare say, unfair) situation of the Italian OG-43 paratroopers squad.
I’m confident that most people already know what I’m talking about. For the few that may be unaware, the core issues are:
This squad was skipped by the global rework of paratroopers’ weapons crates (BR-related loadouts).
The controversial availability of flamethrowers in the crate (underpowered, but 6 of them) doomed this squad to BR IV no matter what.
Meanwhile, the default gun is BR II material at best.
Excluding flamethrowers, the other loadout options from the crate are lackluster as well, still worth BR II.
As such, Germany is currently the only faction that lacks any option for a low BR paratroopers squad.
WHAT’S NEEDED:
The Folgore squad needs to be lowered to BR II, like its US, UK and Japanese low BR counterparts (Russian paras’ BR is variable depending on their guns), where it would be perfectly fitting and balanced as long as the flamethrowers loadout is banned in BR I-III matches, and only available in BR III-V matches.
Their weapons loadout choice from the crate needs to be reworked just like other squads. In higher BR battles, besides flamethrowers, they need better options for assault, AT and sniper loadouts. (Possibly Beretta M38 40rds, Panzerfaust 30/60 and Sniper Gewehr 43.)
Least needed but still useful: a revision of low BR loadouts as well. Most notably, the scoped Carcano M91 at BR III is a terrible sniper rifle, and objectively worse in most aspects than the BR I scoped Carcano Mod. 38.
like said before
No need to ban flamethrowers
Because they are already weak enough (other parachute equipment)
Considering that the main enemies are Soviet paratroopers with high-speed submachine guns and American paratroopers with excellent general performance
It’s not too much to give them a few flamethrowers
Not to mention that their panel only has level 3 fire breathing and only has 5 seconds to use it.
I would rather they bring out the older version of the flamethrower for the 5th level field
US paratroopers with M1A1 carbine have access to BR3 BARs and Soviets can drop with 6 Pps42.
The already overnerfed Flamethrowers wouldn’t change much on BR1-2-3.
If flamethrowers are BR3, then IMO a squad with up to 6 of them needs to be BR3 so long as they are available. Fine to make them not available, tho i guess this will be a complicated solution.
Generally agreed. However just to point out, other squads are also having insufficient loadouts: the UK vickers squad has m1 bazooka at BR 4/5 which is basically pointless at the level. So all para squads should have proper scaling of the equipment to battle BR.
The problem is that they shouldn’t lose their only unique weapon (and the only functional parachute weapon)
Not to mention that these weapons themselves do not have high strength.
Soviet event Para also has issues: at BR2/3 you will only get useless PTRS-41 from the crate as AT weaponry while Premium p2w Soviet para gets Panzerfaust 60.
Both should be normalized and get the strongest AT gun of BR you are playing at. Since we have now M1 bazookas they should get that.
PS buff Axis AT weapons of BR2 they have insanely long reload times.
Also why can’t i use Lee-Enfield 4 sniper at BR2 with usual snipers while Event para can just take them at BR2 with the crate no problem.
If someone says that Enlisted is not p2w show them this:
While British para gets M9 bazookas at BR5 but who would want to pick that squad at such BR with their mediocre guns? Those boxes doesn’t make any sense, it’s like ai picked random unlocks. 100 mag drum Thompson should get M1919A6 instead BARs
Whoever got my comment deleted you’re not gonna hide the problem that the allies and the Soviets can harass the new players With paratroopers while Germany has nothing to even say about that in low BR
I would preferred to have switchable weapons for those fallschirmjäger with fg 42 potatoe launchers due to the horrendous starting amo we are given and issue had been addressed too since their release
I bring US and UK low BR paras in my BR III lineup regularly. If I get uptiered to BR V, the Welgun squad can put up enough of a fight and get Johnson LMGs from the crate. The Marines rely heavily on their crate because their stock carbine sucks, butif they manage to get to the crate they get 3x Browning 1916, which is as good as it gets.
They also need to INCREASE the magazine size to 40rd mags IF in BRIII-V games.
It’s very disappointing that this is the ONLY event squad I have, and I spent lots of time grinding to get it, just to never use it because it sucks in BRIII-V games, and it’s not possible to be in BRI-III games.
They needed to rework the squad months ago, and even post merge.
I used the squad the other day and in a BRV game, against US on Dominant height, we got stomped by 3 players who had the premium 100rd Thompson squad. 3 people with the same squad, neither of the 3 people were in a “squad” either, so I can’t say they were death stacking.
The match was a wash and immediately I removed it. The OG-43 is a cool gun but it’s not up to par with US/USSR paras.
I, too, used to advocate for a larger magazine, but eventually that’s the least problematic matter.
Of course Tommy 100, Vickers and such are on a whole other league; in fact those come close to flamethrower performance themselves, in terms of being able to clean rooms even just by running in and doing helicopterd(u)ck while blindfolded. That’s why they rightfully belong to BR V.
Still, I’ve learnt to like the OG-43 already in its current form. It feels accurate, stable, and the ROF is in a good spot to deliver decent DPS without wasting precious rounds. Once you get used to fire in short bursts, it’s not unusual to kill 3 or 4 guys with a single mag.
A 40rds mag would probably make it BR III, while the current main goal is to lower the squad to BR II.
The vickers paratrooper squad should also get better guns. The squad is locked in br 5 but their crate weapons are t2 max. Change the springfield sniper to m1c garand, change the lanchester to 50rnd thompson, and change the m1 bazooka to m9 bazooka.
