It’s awesome to finally see a female squad, but will you add random female soldiers (especially snipers) to the Soviet infantry side? That would be historically accurate and really cool in terms of diversifying the game.
Also, it would be amazing to see Polish units in the Red Army. 250,000 Poles served in the Red Army itself – including 3,000 defending Moscow and over 10,000 during the Battle of Stalingrad; these are maps already available in the game. In 1944, Konstanty Rokossowski – a Polish man – was Marshal of the Soviet Union, which was the highest military rank of the USSR! I think it’s almost criminal to not include Polish units and soldiers with Polish names fighting on the Russian side in a game that aims to be historically accurate.
Elsewhere on the Eastern Front of WW2, there were up to 100,000 soldiers in the Soviet-controlled Armia Ludowa – which was the main non-partisan Polish army in the east. There were also the partisan forces, the largest and most effective of which was the Armia Krajowa with 400,000 members at its peak (also many women fighters and female medics here, a perfect opportunity for more diversity) along with other and smaller non-aligned groups.
Poles also fought on the Western Front, around 250,000 soldiers that we know of spread across various formations and countries (Polish pilots and navy in Britain, tankmen in North Africa, infantry and artillery with the Allies at Monte Cassino, etc.). So, all things considered, Poles and people of Polish descent fought on almost every front and battle of the Second World War.
I think a quick patch could be done to add soldiers with Polish names in Red Army forces, then another slightly bigger one to add Polish units to the Soviet side in existing campaigns – especially Armia Ludowa forces, finally a larger scale update to bring us Polish partisans with new maps (such as the Warsaw Uprising – the single largest military effort taken by any anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II).
Once the Polish theme is dealt with (which is key considering there were at least 1 million Poles fighting in World War II during a time when there no longer was a regular Polish army), there are also many other opportunities to include different nations: Yugoslav and French resistance movements, Romanian and Hungarian troops on the Axis side, and many more. Italians and other nations beside Germany, USSR, USA are a good start, but we need more.
If you agree with any of this or have suggestions for other armies that should be added, please like and comment here. Let’s keep this thread alive to show the need to add more units to Enlisted.
