As many of you know, since “The Merge,” several historical and specific squads—such as the original Italian and British infantry and vehicle crews from the old campaign system—have become “Legacy” content. Currently, only veteran players have access to them.
This creates a significant immersion gap for newer players. For example, you can research an Italian tank but are forced to use a German crew, or you want to play a desert-themed British lineup but are stuck with standard squads. This breaks the historical atmosphere that Enlisted is known for.
My suggestion is to implement a recurring event system called “Legacy Rescue”.
The Concept: “Legacy Rescue” Events
20-Day Cycle: Every 20 to 30 days, a specific Legacy Squad would return via a mini-event.
Full Variety: This should include both Infantry squads and Vehicle crews. Whether it’s a specific Italian rifleman squad or a British tanker unit, these legacy assets should be cycled back into the game.
How it works: Players would complete in-game challenges (points, kills, or matches played) to unlock the featured squad.
Veteran Participation: To keep the whole community engaged, veterans who already own the squad would receive alternative rewards upon completion, such as Silver, Upgrade Orders, or high-value Boosters.
Why is this beneficial for Enlisted?
Authenticity & Immersion: It allows players to match the correct nationality and uniforms with their equipment. Using Italian soldiers in Italian tanks or British squads with British gear is vital for the game’s identity.
Player Retention: It gives newer players a constant, achievable goal to expand their collection with unique units outside of the standard research tree.
Efficiency: These assets (soldier models, specialized uniforms, and unique voices) are already in the game files. It requires no new development of 3D assets—it’s simply making existing “hidden” content accessible again.
Community Fairness: Many players joined after the Merge and missed the chance to acquire the squads that formed the “soul” of the old campaigns like Tunisia or Moscow.
The assets are already there, and the community craves this level of detail. What do you all think? Would this be a good way to respect the history of the game while helping newer players complete their collections?
As much as I would love to see Gaijin putting up the old legacy squads, I don’t see it happening as they seem to think they are far too valuable to let us peasants have access to them again.
It’s not difficult at all to organize your ideas yourself (at this scale), so either people who use AI are too lazy to do it themselves or too lazy to learn how to do it themselves. Either way, it’s an “easy cop out” that gives me a bad impression since the author obviously doesn’t care enough about their idea to explain it themselves
That’d be more work to create something that already exists, which doesn’t seem smart.
Plus, it would just bloat veteran squad-lists even more, and possibly the loot boxes too, considering how things are going (I really hope they aren’t as greedy as to make us gamble in order to be able to play as Italy or the British).
As for the suggestion itself. No.
Legacy squads should be fully earnable, my future Commonwealth line-up is hidden behind legacy content, drip-feeding me one squad every irregular event (which won’t even be of a nationality I care about every time) is entierly the opposite of what the game needs to do.
We need to reinstate fully playable sub-factions for everyone, something you can acomplish by just playing the game, not hoping for event rewards. Italy and the Commonwealth are locked out for post-merge players, and the Americans don’t even have access to their own mortar squad.
This solution will just reinforce the rarity of those squads, not universally make them available for everyone as they once were.
