Premium Thai troops for possible burma-malaya campaigns

Thailand is the most overshadowed axis power more than hungary, romania etc … or even more than Independent State of Croatia.
They didnt commited big war crimes so adding them will not be contorversial.
Phayap Army fough alongside with japan in burma and south china
We see german- italian cominaed power in north africa, hungarian weapons for germans. Devs should add it. It wont change so much but it will boost the reputtation of the game as "most unique and inclusive ww2 fps " for sure
Thai army didnt have so much unique weapons tough
Most of them were exports from here and there
But some of them maybe interesting for gamers
type 76 spaa british made



astra 400 spanish pistol
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very rare thai pistol type 80

type 66 siamese mauser

Swedish made Bofors anti tank gun
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Would be good additions. Not sure why the devs are so against adding units that are foreign to their campaigns.

They are against ? But why ? Just modelling some same japanese soldiers with thai uniforms shouldnt be that hard.

I don’t know they’ve just been avoiding doing it when there are clear opportunities for it.
Only foreign unit we’ve gotten were Moroccans(?) in Tunisia

They should have British and Canadian units in Normandy

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Ya, I am totally for a Burma Campaign, it was a great melting pot of forces in WW 2:

Chinese
British
CW (Indian)
American
Japanese
Tie (although they barely entered the south of Burma)

The Chinese used a wide variety of kit, small arms from around the world and Different and exotic tanks, German, Russian, exc…

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