This uniform would be great to add to Germany’s attire or even as a squad.
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I’d love some black and/or blue German Marine infantry uniforms too.
No idea how that’d be excused, would only really work very very early war (no campaign for it), unless we’ve got evidence they were reusing old uniforms later in the war due to supply shortages?
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It’s very similar to outfit that every mortar squad has in Normandy.
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I wish we had winter uniforms:
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I mean, were they not used later on in the likes of Brest and the holdouts?
Going back to my ongoing “push” for more fortress or siege maps.
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i’ll never get bored of saying it, but you’d be really surprised how many unused items there are in this game:
( and / or most of them are locked for a single squad that sometimes isn’t even obtainable anymore )
as for the M40 Knochensacks, we do have many iterations of it:
and with the new universal camouflages about to be released,
even more iterations of it.
or some new unicolors versions can be make out of it ones:
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Oh, I don’t doubt the use of naval infantry (I am even aware of it), it’s just that the blue and black uniforms stoped being the standard in 1939, that’s the issue…
this picture is supposedly from 1942 after the Dieppe Raid
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Huh, that does look like the old dark uniform (old uniform had a double row of golden buttons, really destinguishable, even if the picture has no colour)!
Of course, we have no 1942 French campaign… so we still need to figure out if they were retained even later.
some germans marines would look nice indeed.
well, the kriegsmarine didn’t really changed their uniforms unlike other regiments.
but it differend depend their role:
and do look nice indeed.
although they do stick out.
even though they weren’t quite used as for example, the japanese or USA marines.
but not many know that marines were used during the early war and on costal defenses after ward for most of the war.
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I’m no expert, so all I got are images from searching around.
My understanding was that naval infantry uniforms did change over time as uniforms production was simplified, but I could be wrong.
Either way, a unique Marine infantry squad with non-removable machetes (but customizable weaponry) would still be awsome, especially if we could justify the black/blue uniforms!
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interesting.
it appears to be correct.
didn’t know that considering most marines are represented with the early war tunics.
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Yeah, I’m thinking that they were low priority units, so new uniforms probably weren’t that important to just maintain their current numbers, and propaganda (flashy pre-war uniforms looking better on film/photos) so they were looked after specificly for documentation.
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Actually wouldn’t mind a Gewehr/Kar 98 + machete armed BR I rifleman squad of German Marines…
Would still rather have the Gewehr 98 in the tech tree and the naval infantry have fully customizable weapons (still unique machetes of course).
Perfect song to run these marines with btw (I already use a WW1/Kaiserreich playlist when playing Germany, it’s of course included):
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Im like near positive the older uniform was still in use later in the many U Boat bases across france come 1944. I could swear Ive seen pictures of surrendered germans in Brest in them.
I mean even logically, why waste perfectly good uniforms when your already suffering a shortage of uniforms for everyone else?