have it at your front
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German Paratroopers would roll when they land so having the gun their would get in their way
on a strap so it could stay without you holding it
Paratroopers could not drop with heavy weaponry, that’s why such crates as seen in games were also dropped with them (early war German paratroopers even dropped with only pistols, with weapons dropped seperately).
It’s a nice realistic real world aspect that also provides a tacticly interesting dilema for player by not dropping fully battle ready (lacking specialists), they need to regroup at the supply box or go in with what they have from the drop. Such a mechanic should not be lost to only the current Event and Premium squads, otherwise they’re just normal squads that can be airlifted, no downsides (and in arguably objectively better, having a versitile squad that needs no prep time).
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Players requested paratroopers in TechTree multiple times. Hope Darkflow / Gaijin will respond and accept their fate to add them in general.
However paratroopers should face the same systems like tanks / plane (limited to a specific number at the same time - maybe not more then 4 paratrooper squads on the same time)
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Would stop us from reenacting the Battle of Arnhem, but yeah it’s probably for the best. 
I hope they also add more options to custom games, so we can turn off these limmits, tanks, planes, future paratroopers all. Let the chaos commence.
I have an idea
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Go on.
So Germany’s free paratroopers will spawn only with pistols and when they land they’ll do a roll (like irl) and all of the squad equipment will be stored in a crate so it’s more realistic. So you get to still fully customize them.
Sounds interesting, but would mostly be a Germany only nerf to paratroopers, when everyone else could drop with rifles, Germany would be limmited to pistols and SMGs (until BR 5 when they could use FG 42s). I’m fine with everyone behaving like the Brits and Americans, standard weaponry on the drop but heavy stuff must be gathered from the boxes.
Well I mean they should still be slightly worse then the premium ones, but honestly I would like it as I don’t drop my paratrooper into the point but somewhere safe, this would encourage players to play more strategically with these paratroopers while other paratroopers are for letting hell let loose. Plus I’m a German main and I want this!
Premium and event paratroopers (don’t forget there are several event ones too) can come with the prefixed boxes, with multiple options for loadout (as is now), tech tree paratrooper boxes would only have a single loadout, the one you created.
This would make Premium squads the most flexible, being able to choose the loadout that best fits in the moment, and they’d be cheaper to maintain (the equipment they got would come with the squads for free). Essentially, new system for new squads, current system for current squads.
I’d say this would make current squads “slightly better”, without overdoing it.
So… um… I’m a little slow… sorry, it’s a good idea?
German paratroopers rolling upon landing? Sounds great.
Rolling effecting them to a degree that their loadout options are significantly lesser to nations paratroopers? Realistic, but a unfair nerf.
Tech-Tree paratroopers dropping with heavy weaponry on them? Absolutely not, no thank you, the box mechanic should remain.
There are ways to make current squads better than new tech tree alternatives, that doesn’t involve removing what currently makes paratroopers so unique in game.
I think this should be all my opinions currently voiced on here summed up, does this clear things up…?
So mixed opinions?
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Yes, good summary.
Ok 
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I could make a post on this later
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Uragan 
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