In 1943, Italy surrendered, and the “legitimate” government of Italy joined the allies, while Mussolini’s forces remained in the axis. The Italian troops who volunteered to fight for the allies usually wore British uniforms and helmets, but occasionally wore Italian uniforms, though not as often as the fascist Italian forces had taken as much as they could, apparently.
I’d like to see an Italian squad, preferably event but you can always make an event AND premium squad, in the allied roster. Sure, it won’t make too much sense in the Asian theaters, but neither do Chinese in Normandy. I think it’d be a fun way to mix up gameplay, especially when a very easy audio cue to whether or not there are axis players nearby is people screaming in Italian or German.
My proposition is simple. An Italian assaulter squad for the allies. Why assaulter? Because…
MOAR THOMPSONS!!!1!
Unfortunately there’s very little we can do with 20 round M1928s since we already have them ingame, and a rifleman squad wouldn’t do well either because there’s pretty much no Carcanos to add outside of the Tromboncino rifles or 8mm Mauser Carcanos, which wouldn’t make sense for the allied Italians to be using. So, what then? Well…
Three choices, in my honest opinion(which is correct as well):
The original early MAB 38 with a folding 91TS-style spike bayonet, which was less common than the M38 folding bayonet version.
The original early MAB 38, with the M38 folding bayonet, but this time with a 40 round magazine. Or a 30 round magazine. Either or.
And finally, the 38/44, a 38/42 without the fluted barrel. Also not exactly a gun that would make sense for the allied Italians to be using since it was made by fascist Italians, but hey, there’s been odder choices.
- Yes, as an event squad
- Yes, as a premium squad
- No
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And since I have no idea how to make multiple polls in one post:
- 38 early spike bayonet
- 38 early M38 bayonet with 40 round mag
- 38 early M38 bayonet with 30 round mag
- 38/44
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No way in hell should US receive one before germany does besides premium squad.
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People have been asking for Italian squads for the axis for forever. No one but Gaijin is to blame for nearly all British and Italians squads getting banished to the shadow realm on merge and not adding anything afterwards. I fully understand where you’re coming from but there’s only one party to blame and it’s not the community.
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Not my fault the Italian squads got obliterated by the merge.
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Look, they weren’t the only ones fighting here in Italy.
“I think this idea is good. An Italian army belonging to the Allies? I see it as a fresh concept.”
Correct… but you are suggesting one for allies before germany could even receive theirs.
picture the fallout if there was some brit weapon that isnt in tree say the infamous lewis gun… italy suddenly gets a captured one… oh ho ho i can just imagine… granted it would likely be event and US has .303 but you get the picture.
Also this just uses the beretta… suddenly squads like this are OK… only when it’s for nations besides germany… i have no choice but to have this attitude… its quite annoying.
Could? There’s been plenty of time for them to be added. The even fight event with britain vs Italy could’ve provided actual squad rewards instead of the Lewis gun which should be TT in the first place and a clip reloaded SF that isn’t worth using in the first place. The liberation of Rome event from last month could’ve given out a squad instead of a skin for a tank that no one uses. The Monte Cassino event before that could’ve given a squad but it didn’t. There’s been enough Italy focused events they simply didn’t use for it to simply be wrong to they there was no chance for the Axis to get one.
Yep. And theres been plenty of time for Britain to get a lewis… so lets just give it to axis instead… problem solved!
In the case of multiple polls, just have a diff name for each poll
[poll type=regular name=poll1 results-always chartType=bar]
* Yes
* No
[/poll]
[poll type=regular name=poll2 chartType=bar]
* br1
* br3
* br4
[/poll]
All I see is copypaste.
There’s no need to keep running faction integrity for something like this. If you want to play as Italian with Italian SMH, there’s already German faction for you.
I think this’d be too confusing, unfortunately
I can agree that we could use something like this, but I feel like the Germans need it first. In fact we need to have multiple Italian squads permanently integrated into their Tech tree, event squads, and premium squads. At that point I wouldn’t see any issue with adding a squad or two to the allies, I could see them getting a event (I hate to say it but perfect use of a one-time only fomo Squad event that is so famously used by the devs) and a premium Squad.
Good news! Your prayers have been answered.
Now it’s time for Spaghetti-Americans.
