Give Japan Alt squads

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The devs have already said we’ll be getting more Alt and Legacy squads, which is great news for building lineups and helping new players get started. Unfortunately, Japan is excluded from this. It won’t be getting any extra squads, and the reason is pretty straightforward: before the merge, Japan only had the Pacific campaign.

Take me for instance. I’ve built a full lineup for every BR in Japan. But every time I switch BRs, I’m forced to re equip every single squad, because Japan just doesn’t have enough squads to go around. I never run into this problem with other factions. They have plenty of squads to cover each BR, so I can just save a lineup and forget about it, without touching a single weapon or vehicle.

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Japan doesn’t even have half of that

If the previous issue only makes it more tedious to manage your loadouts, the problem I’m about to mention could actually affect game balance.

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Take Japan’s opponents, the Soviet and the Allies, as examples:

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The Allies can bring 2 P‑38s and 3 Scotts.

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The Soviets can bring 2 P‑40Es and 3 T‑28s.

BR 3

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The Soviets can bring KV 1/2 STZ

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Finally, there’s the Allies: 3 Shermans, 2 P‑51Ds, and can bring other too. Fighters, assaults, tanks — everything can be rotated.

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I won’t even elaborate on Japan. Getting three fighters already requires event/premium planes, and only one of them can air spawn. So Japan’s CAS effectiveness ends up being way behind every other nation.

I haven’t even included event or premium vehicles in my examples. If we did… 2 FP‑5s, 2 KV‑2s, 2 Yak-3.

Euthy already said these squads are going into the silver chest later, so everyone will have a chance to get them. That means more and more players will eventually be able to build the lineups I talked about, and Japan’s gap compared to other factions will only grow.

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This means Japan won’t receive Alt squads, but I believe they could still be introduced in another form.

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Neither the Far Eastern campaign nor Burma added any new squads for Japan. The devs could simply add historical units from those campaigns, with no new weapons required. They could be given out as event rewards or put into silver chests, and it wouldn’t harm the game in any way. Japan should get new Assaulter II/III, Machine Gunner I/II, and Vehicle I/II squads.

Should more Alt squads be added for Japan?
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By the way, Japan’s Tier III fighter squad has too many planes, while the Tier I/II fighter squads have too few.

“Should redistribute aircraft between the existing squads?
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Yes please! Just a second squad of each type would allow a lot more loadout options.

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I didn’t have that many squads leveled up for Japan I played that faction from launch, just as I did for the US in the Pacific theater.

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Yes Japs need more squads as well as real vehicles, not paper concept stuff. They have loads of planes they could choose from too.

I have 3 BR presets on my main Low, Mid and IV BRs, 2 on V for every other faction. For Japanese even with premiums and event stuff, only managed 2 preset BR2, 2 BR3 and that is swapping tanks and planes of same squad about.

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There was a bigger need for anything alt japan than for a duplicate Italian MG squad that isnt even unique since it already is in the TT…

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I think Japan should get its own “subfaction.” For example, Thais or Manchus.

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It seems our Japanese friends have misunderstood something; the Enlisted team is restoring content from old historical campaigns rather than adding new factions.

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The Pacific campaign was the final addition made prior to the campaign merge. Before the merge, Japanese squads remained unaltered—with some high-tier squads even being brought back for sale—whereas British squads in the US faction, as well as Italian and German campaign squads in the German faction, were removed during the merge; the announcements regarding replacement and legacy squads were made with this context in mind.

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if they add more event/TT units it would be good too, thai forces,manchukuo,philipine traitors, koreans,etc.

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I usually never message here but this is something I’ve thought about too, giving alt squads to Japan, and those alt squads could be Kwantung Army related for Manchuria,

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