“Brandenburg-800” performed military tasks using the methods of special services, achieving the effect of surprise by masking and misleading the enemy, which was used by the units of the Wehrmacht following it.
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nightmare of the allies and the ussr 
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Hie Gut Brandenburg Alle Wege.
I don’t have this unit looks cool
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Was one of summer last year event rewards alongside a UK SAS squad
I’m pretty sure the Reconnaissance event squad was (loosely) based on Operation Greif, where Skorzeny put together a bunch of English-speaking Germans in American uniforms and equipment to go cause confusion behind American lines. They cut communication lines, turned sign posts around, and even gave battalions bogus orders. When captured, they gave outlandish claims about their mission which further hampered American operations, like saying they were part of a mission to assassinate Eisenhower, which forced him to be confined to Paris. Then Montgomery tried to use that as an opportunity to become the face of the invasion, but was stopped by American soldiers at a checkpoint that thought he was another infiltrator and shot at his staff car when Montgomery ordered his driver to ignore them. He was interrogated in a barn for four hours before a British Captain who the American soldiers knew arrived and confirmed that it was General Montgomery.
Anyway, the Brandenburgers are a distinct and unrelated commando unit which I hope to see eventually make it into the game, along with a ton of other incredibly interesting historical units.
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The unit name really doesn’t matter in this game. The thing that actually matter is their appearance. Also, after the merge, You will keep your squad so you can have Berlin unit fighting in Moscow(but wearing different uniform). So unit name will just be useless at that point.
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It does if we’re talking about whether or not a specific unit is represented in the game.
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Lol, that is only a unit name. It is only for decoration purpose, nothing special. For example, I can literally use unit from a single division to replace all infantry squad for Normandy Axis.
It’s what unit that squad is portraying.
You know they weren’t the only ones to ever wear winter camo masks, right?
That has nothing to do with the fact that the 277th Reconnaissance Battalion are NOT the Brandenburgers. The devs adhere to historical insignia and names when they can without facing potential legal issues. The Brandenburgers were part of the Wehrmacht and there is nothing stopping them from being named directly. The group that the silenced MP40 squad is based on was not part of the Wehrmacht and they face potential legal issues from naming them accurately. That’s why they are named after an infantry division that operated in the area that they did but had no reconnaissance battalion.
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Bruh, that is just a unit name.
There is no difference if I switch unit name. There will be no difference if I change the above squad to brandenburger or other random infantry unit.
Lol your statement is just wrong since it is based on the claim of you saying that squad is based on Operation Greif. Why that squad can’t be base on brandenburger? Also, the reason of using that name is because they need to be a unit that join the battle of Normandy since that is Normandy campaign.
Yes?
Because they aren’t the Brandenburgers, they’re inspired by the commandos in Operation Greif. If they were the Brandenburgers, it would use one of their real names and insignia.
It’s strange, it’s like you’ve confused the concept that Darkflow can do whatever they want with squad implementation with the reality of how they actually implement squads.
Lol you can’t see this? I already give you the reason why they don’t use brandenburger.
Lol, you are just ignorance by this point. You don’t even really understand how Darkflow censor the name. The way that Darkflow censor the SS unit is removing SS element in the name. 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend-> 12 Panzer Division. The unit in operation Grief is Panzer Brigade 150. It doesn’t have SS element in its name, so they will add it directly if they want to.
Give a single example of DF incorporating a unit into the game under the name of a different unit for a reason other than censorship.
That’s enough of a change so that they can deny it is the same unit, the “SS element” is not the sole focus.
No, they cannot portray the SS, so they would not use their exact name.
And further, the actual commandos that the squad is based on are the Einheit Steilau commandos, which were drawn from Panzer Brigade 150.
Lol give me example of darkflow incorporating a unit into the game under the name of a entire different unit because of censorship.
Bruh if they really don’t want to do this they can just remove all SS unit the game lol.
Bruh, that squad is famous of wearing US uniform. The brandenburger that wear the similar uniform as in game squad and a squad that wears Us uniform, which is more likely to inspire the in game squad?
277th Reconnaissance Battalion
What? Why would they do that? Can you try to remain coherent?
The Brandenburgers started as special forces commandoes and ended up as a Panzergrenadier division by wars end. They didn’t have standardized use of winter camouflage masks, and they weren’t the only ones that used them. They weren’t the only ones to use foliage to camouflage themselves either.
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Lol, that is not an example. You need the example to proof your point(277th Reconnaissance Battalion name is because of censorship) , not magically use the thing you want to proof to proof itself.
So, that is the reason of a squad that is famous of wearing US uniform suddenly became the inspiration of squad wearing entirely different uniform?
And you haven’t named one squad in the game that had their name changed because DF wanted to put them in a theater they weren’t present in.
It’s difficult to decipher through all the broken English, but yes, actually wearing American uniforms wouldn’t make any sense in-game, and the commandos did have their own uniforms as well.
Here’s Darkflow’s description of the 277th Reconnaissance battalion.
“These saboteurs are renowned for their crafty improvisation skills and their love for infiltration tactics. Seizing the uniforms of enemy soldiers and officers, their whole squads could pierce through impenetrable enemy defenses to strike right at the heart.”