Same goes for every other faction in the game. Cavalry swords have had been only available thru the event. The problem is that how readily those swords available only for Japan. If the body armor was only available to like, a single event/premium squad it wouldn’t have been as much as issue as we are having rn. Also no, able to giving the swords to every squad member is absolutely a huge advantage. People not using it only to escape the spawn, they have had been using it for in any situation that needs to run off as fast as possible, catching up/flanking tanks can be one of the example.