A partial repost. While I am excited for the major update and found most of the announcements and clarification good news, I have two concerns, one of which I feel may negatively impact the game if implemented.
Concern 1: According to the helpers, you will be able to take premiums such as the Moroccan Auxiliary squad to the Pacific. But why? This makes zero sense. Are the Italians allowed to fight next to the Japanese? Why are you allowing these premium squads to participate in the pacific where they did not fight?
This kind of sounds like going against the principle of only allowing the right faction in the right battle, such as the example you gave like allowing the Soviets to play in Normandy.
This premium squad should remain with the British and only be allowed to participate in Tunisia battles. Or, have the uniform change to an appropriate one such as Australian/Filipino/Indian or any other one when being sent to the Pacific. There’s lots of options, and if you’re already changing uniforms to match the battle, it really shouldn’t be that hard.
Concern 2: according to the announcement itself, there is no limit on the amount of squad types you can bring per battle not are there any plans to introduce such limits. Seriously? You’re not going to put a limit on squad classes per battle? You have to understand how toxic that will become overnight. I could bring 5 US flamethrower squads to any battle I get assigned to and then cycle them over and over. Same thing with Assaulters and Machine Gunners. Please, for the love of god, add a limit, or the new changes will slowly become useless and the game will become unplayable in mid to high tier lobbies. Additionally, implementing some kind of limit could reduce plane/tank cycling.
Also, you will to find a solution for WP spam. Because if it’s not taken into account with the conditional rating, high level players will abuse it by taking early war guns and bullying new players with it.
To be brutally honest, I don’t care about the concept of “letting players play how they want” if it comes at the expense of literally everyone else. I don’t care if players want to bring 5+ flamethrower squads and WP grenade pouches if it means the rest of players suffer.
And finally, I need to stress I’m not being vindictive or bashing. I am happy with the direction the game is going, as long as these issues are addressed. I can live with the premium squad debacle, but there must be a way to balance the squad type issue or things will get ugly real quick.