Now that there has been some talk about adding Manchuria as a Campaign, here is a video of a tank battle between Japanese and USSR troops from the movie “My Way” for reference.
In Japanese military, there were these “Special Purpose Units” formed occasionally even in the early phases of war (Manchuria):
They typically had an antitank mine tied to their back/ on chest or other methods of taking out their enemy in order to get some real honor in real-life XP meter.
I was just wondering if someone plays on the Japanese side, could one of the starting units be “Special Purpose Unit”?
I mean, there are a lot of noobs in the game and this would definitely add to their purpose on battlefield?
This unit would have some serious set of explosives and explosive spear (Japanese one) with them, or a sword/ Shovel or axe but no firearm in the start. (Of course they could pick one up from deceased)
It would be a great way to make something VERY different from any other FPS game?
Manchuria Campaign & “Special Purpose Unit” together? ← This game would be a talk of the town.
Here is some additional historical context, there are more info available online:
Of course, you could always run with one of these special guys (pun not intended) to enemy holdouts or any other place and make some “room” there for the rest of the team to take over the place?
This would not even count on your death/ kill ratio at all, because the purpose of these guys would be to wipe out as many as they can when they go?
Manchuria would not be very much fun I think, at least not in 1945, there’s no way at all you could balance Japanese armor against Russian tanks, there really isn’t any way you can do that in 1945 against US tanks and Russian tanks, well, a JS III …
As in Real-Life this would actually fix the balance issue nicely while staying more than realistic?
This is exactly how the Japanese fixed the Real-Life balance issue on the actual war itself?
It does not matter how big and mean tank you are driving if the other side has maniacs who are literally willing to jump under it/ climb on top of it and EXPLODE themselves WITH the tank?
BANZAI!
—> No more balance issues if you have a “Special Purpose Squad” that can take out enemy armor, huge concentrations of troops or enemy bunkers/ fire-bases by suicide bombing them?
It can be anything, IS-2 or whatever heavy Soviet or U.S armor (Starting from Sherman) but if the enemy actually is willing to die in order to take out the tank, the tank becomes useless.
Good luck moving down that entire squad with the machine gun, only ONE guy needs to get through and the tank with everything around it is DONE.
Literally ONE guy takes the tank out with his/hers (Big if?) “Special Purpose Squad” on the game?
Of course you still have Japanese tanks, other anti-tank devices and systems and basic anti-tank gun build by an engineer but this could really be a Japanese specialty that would be completely different in the game.
It is kind of a mind fu… I mean mind blowing to imagine that someone really does and many people did this for real during second world war?
!