Nationalities and their knives

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With the coming update, we can FINALLY choose our soldiers nationalities! For now it will be Italian or Commonwealth.

This is fantastic!

But I noticed a little detail that is missing, for those like me who like to tailor their squad entirely to fit said nationalities:

  • Knives. It is impossible to buy those, right? they come as default with soldiers when Enlisted.

However, in Tunisia campaing, Italian and Commonwealth forces had their respective knives:

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This is entirely cosmetic. I simply propose to allow us to buy, or switch knives appearance the same way we can buy Commonwealth and Italian backpacks, med kits, grenades, axes and mines.

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Cant disagree with more options

BTW the way to get these is recruit soldiers, and if they come as British or Italian, you got the knife

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Yes, but it’s either rare, or so random it’s a hassle…

A simple choice for players would just be a plus.

I wonder how much silver would DF ask for a knife :stuck_out_tongue:

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no? its not rare and its not a hassle, just go buy an engineer 1 on germany and it’ll always be italian, then just sell him right back

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Then you’ll only get a shovel.

MG 1 for Germany is what you want, but the principle is correct yes.

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MG gunner I, those will give you Italian knives, but engineer I has the same shovel as German engineers so you are just wasting your silver on those (Im talking from experience since I made the same mistake at first).

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Why would you even want to use knives and not replace them with something actually more useful?

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Axes and Shovels weigh more. Not everyone is going to use a shovel, I doubt many players do.
There is no need to bring an Axe if your primary weapon has a bayonet attached

Less weight = less stamina consumption
Axes weight twice as much knives.

For someone that criticises “min-maxxing” you

  1. Don’t even know how to properly min-max when you attempt it
  2. This person wants to use knives for RP flavour

I think you are just a contrarian at this point

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The difference in stamina consuption by weight is so minimal that literally no one would notice it if they didn’t have access to datamined data sheets

In other words, completely irrelevant. Even Euthemia thinks the difference is completely meaningless.

These two sentences combined doesn’t make any sense whatsover.

I guess I am now attempting to mimmax stuff by thinking of basic knives as useless (which they are). As any other melee equipment gives you added ability/options.

That’s why I asked him why he would want to use knives instead of other faction-based melee equipment that can be purchased.

I doubt it’s because of some pseudo stamina consumption. :man_shrugging::man_shrugging::man_shrugging:

If he is just fond of the knives, okay.

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Same reason My Italians use Tunisia med kits, and my Commonwealth men use mills grenades, even though they are identical to their base variants:

  • cosmetics.

It’s not useful gameplay wise.

Just “feels” pretty :stuck_out_tongue:

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