Hi,
Today I want to talk about the Japanese army and how would it work if added to Enlisted
I will be using Iwo Jima as an example but there are tons of other battles that could be added.
Battles will be held on long range, japanese will be using bunkers which are dug up inside the mountains making it very hard to capture them but when Americans get close to those bunkers it’s pretty much Game over for the japs because japanese didn’t have a lot of SMG’s. Here is more information:
Let’s begin:
Japanese soldiers and their equipment
Japanese soldiers were extremely different from European and American soldiers, their tactics, weapons, way of fighting…
Let’s start with weapons.
SMG’s and close quarters
Japanese soldiers fought mostly on long range so they preferred rifles and snipers over SMG’s
They used MP-28, MP-34 and Type-100 SMG’s but these SMG’s saw limited use with the Japanese army.
If Japanese army were to be introduced realistically, only some squads will be able to equip one guy with SMG.
Standard Japanese SMG will be Type-100
The lack of SMG’s didn’t stop soldiers from being useful in close combat, Japanese soldiers were very…fanatic so they all had bayonets, katanas and long knifes.
In Enlisted, we can add the banzai charge
The banzai charge could work when a player gives an order to his AI squad to charge at the enemy
All the squadmembers will then attach their bayonets or draw their katanas and charge at the enemy. This feature is already present in the battlefield 5 and can work in Enlisted as a high risk, high reward tactic
Rifles
Japanese soldiers were armed with two variants of the Arisaka rifle.
The first one being the ww1 era Type 38 Arisaka and the second one being the type 99 Arisaka
The only major difference is the use of different cartridge so type 99 is a bit stronger
These guns had great accuracy, great sights (except the last ditch sights) and used the mauser bolt system which was great. These 2 rifles could be one of the best bolt actions in the game because of their great iron sights.
Japanese army focussed a lot into sniping so Japanese had a lot of snipers too
Machine guns and light machine guns
Japanese standard LMG was the type 99 ‘‘Nambu’’
It’s somewhat similar to the ZB-26 and Bren gun
But the coolest of them all is probably the Type 92 heavy MG
This thing was a true…monster
It fired at a very slow RoF but it also had little to no malfunctions, hardly ever jammed, overheating the barrel was almost impossible and one gunner could fire non-stop for 30 minutes without overheating the barrel. This MG would be the backbone of the Japanese army in Enlisted. It was mounted on a very stable Tripod and had very little recoil
I suggest watching this video for more information
Japanese main battle tank was the Type 97 Chi-Ha but this tank was quite awful compared to what americans had, I suggest making this tank more numerous than Sherman will balance it a bit.
That’s pretty much it, I will not cover up the American army because we already have them in Normandy
