I’m playing Axis in Tunisia and, since I care about immersion in games I play, I have a problem: There are two nations that make up the Axis - some of the squads are German and some are Italian. So what ends up happening is all of my squads are mixed: there can be Italian sniper and sniper and German bomber and trooper in the same squad.
My solution to that is to add an option to choose a nationality (name and possibly some details like mustache or skin tone, uniforms are not an issue) of a soldier when purchasing him from troops reinforcement tab.
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brace your self, you might have awaken the Ancient social justice warrior ( aka @67929529 ) and it’s going to eat your soul for make a suggestion like this ( luv ya ghosto ).
jokes aside, ( no racism included ) i do agree that there should be a feature that allows players to do so. but perhaps only when soldier customization will be a thing. i don’t personally mind having mixed soldiers, but as you mentioned and showed, some people do. so why not make both happy.
cheers.
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From apearence and soldier name, you can easily distinguish soldiers on the squad.
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Reading the title I thought you meant Libyan soldiers, but we need that too. Pretty sure @113845534 made this thread already
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All Lybian divisions were sadly destroyed before Tunis.
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I remain of the idea that there must have been an Italian light infantry division
German Light division was basically an Panzergrenadier Division or Mechanized Division. Italians only had Motorised Divisions as they didnt had any APCs like SdKfz 251 or American M3 half-track at Africa, theyr APC S.37 were used in Yugoslavia even when they have been designed to be operated in Desert.
At least add the ability to swap the nationality. Dont care if Mario and Weegee have those weird Mexican mustaches.
Btw. finally add US faces or at least remove Mongolian faces from US pool.
not that the game does so much to make it “unique”, however, having the German assault squad was enough
There was Italian Assaulter squad in Phase I, soo we will get it.
Tier 2 so they swap next
But my point is to give players the ability to decide if they’re buying Italian or German soldier, so that those like myself, who care about immersion and historical accuracy (to some degree - it’s a game after all) could make their squad entirely out of Germans or Italians.
And there’s one more problem that I’ve noticed - you can use “swap equipment” between two Italian or two German troopers, but not between a German and an Italian one, so even if you were to change soldier’s name for authenticity, that would still be the case since the game remembers default names.
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How would work this with bronze orders?
bronze order are not used anymore with the next update for obtain wapons and soldier but only with silver, its not hard make with silver the possibility when you buy a soldier in a mixed faction to choiche soldier nationality
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Oh. I almost forgot that.
I think that it should be “free”, so at no additional cost - just one silver order like it is now; but available only when you buy that soldier, so that you can choose if your soldier will be Italian or German only when you buy them, later you should only be able to change their name with the “callsign order”.
Kinda like when you buy a new soldier in Heroes & Generals you can change his name for free, but later only for some amount of gold.
There could be a lil flag over the soldier’s portrait to show his nationality. That would help having homogenous squads and prevent a peculiar problem:
Taking allies as example (same applies for axis):
Say you want to replace a trooper from your radiomen squad with another. Generally troopers come in usa nationality, as the trooper squad is usa. You CAN add a us trooper to replace the Brit one… but you’ll have to swap all his equipment manually. It’s like the game considers troopers of different nationality to be completely different, or at least have a different rank. It can get a tad annoying.
Hey. At least we were abel to change their race for free for one time.
Yeah. I agree. I have no interest in playing germans…so I want all my troops to be italian.