Recently Paratroopers have been overhauled with a different loadout depending on what BR you get thrown into. This is really only for the original low BR paratroopers because they can end up in late war battles while high BR paratroopers can’t vice versa. Now this more or less works for American, German, Soviet, and Japanese Paratroopers because they have a wide arsenal so no matter what your loadouts immersively fit (for example, a low BR US Para with a M1 Bazooka while high M9 Bazooka). However British Paratroopers have been and are shafted.
The first British Paratrooper squad we ever had was the Vickers K. Of their original Box loadout only their Mortar and SMG was British, the rest was American. However the second British Para squad, the Welgun, had an entirely British Box loadout. It was perfect. In fact they pretty much became my favorite British Para because of this.
However now everythig has changed. If I have the Welgun Squad and get spawned in Normandy my loadout is all American because of the whole BR calculations. It has tarnished the immersion of such British squads. Of coarse we have Italian paratroopers dropping in Normandy and Berlin, but that’s a separate issue (cough cough just make them BR 2)
I would suggest making the British Paratrooper loadouts, and pretty much all various faction Paratroopers in general, have a Box completely authentic to their faction, maintaining some shreds of immersion. I would suggest the devs go through every single Paratrooper squad and make sure they’re up to this standard. For example, the American M1A1 Carbine squad have a British mortar in BR 1-2 eventhough the M2 Mortar (which is BR 4 for some reason) is basically the same.
Now just to address one argument let’s look at AT. In high BR matches the British AT weapon has been made the American M9 Bazooka. I don’t think there should be any issue with the British actually being able to use THEIR PIAT even at high BR. There are only really 3 vehicles the PIAT cannot reliably combat at that stage, but the PIAT can deal with pretty much every other vehicle the Germans have. Everyone knows that even at “high BR” matches you will see a variety of vehicles and the PIAT can deal with most of them. Just because the PIAT can’t chew through just 3 vehicles at high BR shouldn’t mean we can’t use Britiain’s iconic AT weapon