Add faction markings for all vehicles

[Veekay45]

Hey all!

This has been suggested a thousand times, including by yours truly as early as in November 2021:

@Veekay45

Stars, crosses, turret numbers
basic tank markings even with random turret numbers (with fancy customization saved for monetization, I get it) would make land vehicles look much more authentic and bring them in line with the airplanes’ decals quality at least;

This has even been marked as “planned” by our ex-CM and received overwhelmingly positive feedback:

However, over the two years since February 2024 those plans have gone nowhere.

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Therefore, it’s time to suggest this one again in this new poll format:

Add faction markings for all vehicles by default

1. Every faction should receive their default vehicle markings on all vehicles (cross, star, rising sun, and more).
   

2. Such markings must be pre-placed and pre-sized on every vehicle according to the faction’s regulations of the time to avoid incorrect non-WW2-style use.
   
   

   

3. Faction markings must correspond to the era of the battle (e.g. Normandy 1944).
   
   

4. The USSR being the “red star” faction MUST NOT mean that every Soviet tank should receive a red star – more often than not Soviet tanks in WW2 only used tactical markings, which should also be added. The red star should only appear in select cases.
   

   
   
   

5. Every vehicle should receive a default turret number corresponding to the faction’s WW2 regulations in its correst font, if applicable (e.g. no “999”) – preferably randomized every match to avoid always seeing the same “Tiger 131”.
   
   

   

6. This system should also apply to transport vehicles, APCs, etc.
   

   
   
   
   

7. Paired with the FREE and DEFAULT basic paintjobs for each map, such markings should automatically change the color and style depending on the map/biome/era (e.g. USMC tank markings in the Pacific were yellow more often than not in contrast with the Army’s white in Europe).
   
   

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POLL – Add default historical faction markings for all vehicles?

• Yes
• No

[warfare_master]

yah

[Veekay45]

UPD: for Luftwaffe, theater identification bands should be also consistent with the map and era of the battle:

“In 1941, the first tactical fuselage bands were introduced to identify specific theaters of operations on a global scale. The width of these bands was not strictly defined. It was quite common to combine yellow or white fuselage bands with other identification markings on the rudder, spinner, and/or wingtips.”

“Further fuselage bands were those of the Defense of the Reich (Reichsverteidigung). Introduced in mid-1944, these were used exclusively by day fighters. The width of these bands was set at 900 mm.”

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As such, let’s say a BF109 might havesimilar “light grey/dark grey/green” colorways for the Eastern Front and for North Africa,

but when used on the Eastern Front the band should be yellow

and when used in North Africa the band should be white