In the new update, the customization of the British was updated, they gave a green uniform for PO / Burma and updated the design of the faces, but there is something that I did not like at all.
That band in the midle is called a “puggaree”, and is just a cloth band woven around the base of the hat. This was a fairly common practice, by all Commonwealth nations.
I for one wish we got common access to the Austen squads slouch hats, then they could get one with with a side turned up just for the Austen squad. Generally speaking, that’s how the Aussies prefered to wear them anyway.
For some reason, the men of No. 1 Commando of the British Army wears the Royal Cipher of the Norwegian King Haakon VII. It’s literally just a crowned 7 over a stylized H, it’s Haakon’s initials, essentially.
Why on God’s good green earth are these soldiers wearing the insignia of a foreign king…!?