Premium/ Event Romania Squad

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Romania was originally a neutral country in WW2 but a fascist coup in 1940 ended putting it on the Axis side. In 1941 Romania, alongside all the other Axis powers, invaded the Soviet Union. Romania actually had the 2nd most troops of the Axis fighting on the Eastern Front. In 1942 Romania suffered its worst defeat on the Eastern Front when the Soviets specifically targeted the weaker Axis lines in their massive counter-offensive to encircle Stalingrad. In 1944 as the war began to turn against Germany Romanian King Michael I led a coup against the fascist government and Romania joined the Allies and even fought with the Soviet Union as they pushed into Germany. Ironically the Romanian army was far larger in its war against Germany than it was when it was fighting the Soviets on the Eastern Front

Despite switching sides near the end of the war, a Premium/ event Romanian squad should still be added for the Axis. They spent the majority of the war on Germany’s side. It’s no different than how we still have Italian units fighting in Normandy, Hurtgen Forest, and Berlin long after Italy surrendered in 1943. In that instance I justified these units as after Italy surrendered a puppet state, the Italian Social Republic, was founded in Northern Italy and fielded thousands of soldiers, thousands of Italians had chosen to continue to fight with the Axis even after the surrender, and there even was an Italian SS division. A similar justification can be made for Romania as thousands of Romanians volunteered to serve in the German armed forces even before Romania surrendered, and there were some SS divisions as well as a specific SS division made after Romania surrendered

Ideally this squad’s unique weapon would be a return of a classic rifle from the Stalingrad campaign from a long time ago, the Mannlicher M93, Romania’s standard rifle. This weapon was removed from the game as an exclusive to those who grinded the Stalingrad campaign. I would highly recommend this squad to be a Riflemen squad. I find the 9-man Riflemen squad is the quintessential representation of infantry.

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vânători de munte (Romanian pronunciation: [vɨnəˈtorʲ de ˈmunte], transl. “Mountain Huntsmen”) are the elite mountain troops of the Romanian Land Forces. They were first established as an independent Army Corps in 1916 during World War I, and became operational in 1917 under Corpul de Munte designation.[1]


The Romanian vânători de munte saw action in World War II on the Eastern Front in some of the harshest battles — including the sieges of Sevastopol and Stalingrad — where their performance lived up to their reputation: virtually all their commanders from brigade level and up received the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, with general Mihail Lascăr being the first foreigner to receive Oak Leaves on 22 November 1942 (see List of foreign recipients of the Knight’s Cross). The greatest single achievement of the vânători de munte was the capture of Nalchik on 2 November 1942, the farthest point of the Nazi Germany advance into the Caucasus. This victory earned Romanian Brigadier General Ioan Dumitrache the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross.[5] After the coup d’état of 23 August 1944, the vânători de munte fought on the Soviet side, notably in the Tatra Mountains.[6]

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Dude those MG’s look BA! I think this would be a great idea! Nice work.

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More squads certainly isn’t a bad thing :wink:

I’d like a Romanian riflemen squad that represents your average infantry, and there could be another squad for that unique MG. Or it could just be a gold order or event item or whatever

The more the merrier

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My point was just people normally make event/premium squads that represent particular if not special units not just x soldier in y army

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Thank you for your post.

I support this idea.

Personally I have been suggesting USA-UK be separated into USA and UK-Commonwealth as separate trees.

Likewise Axis be separated into Germany and Italy as separate trees.

Italy would have Italian weapons and squads but also the other Axis powers including Hungary, Finland and of course Romania.

Within these new trees there would be the ability to choose the nation you want your squads to be so in this case you would click the Romanian flag and everyone in that squad gets a default Romanian uniform.

Within the tech tree Id agree with the M93 rifle and Id argue at least one of these cool machine guns youve shared as standard tech tree (which would help since the Italians only have the Breda). The other one could be a premium.

Otherwise are there any unique or particularly interesting Romanian weapons you think could be a premium/event squad?

(sorry Im not at all familiar with Romanian weapons in WWII so dont have any suggestions myself)

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It would be a great addition! Osprey Men at War series shows a good variety of uniforms including paratroopers