There is no reason to play premium squads except for more XP. All have soldiers of one specialization and that makes it boring and useless for PTFO.
Building ammo boxes/rally point? Nah, only with one squad. Destroying tanks? Nah, only TNT pack. Beeing able to snipe someone? Nah. CQB? Nah, you get only 9 guys with bolt-action rifles. You get what I mean, this squads are not universal. Allow us to customize them same as all other squads.
And when we want to put soldiers from them in other squads, they lost their unique look (For example you love camo of SKS-31 squad, but want to put them in normal squad and give better weapon. Now they looks normal.) Allow us to keep their appearance even in other squads.
Of course its only for more XP. And premium, for higher levels players, dosent provide significant more power.
Except rare squads like PZ4E’s HEAT shell.
My BAR squad in Normandy is lot of times better than regular squad tbh, they are really good thanks to Polish BAR and can do a lot of Damage. Only downside is you cant build rally points and ammo boxes, soo thats why i run them with huge ammo pack, they can stand on theyr own for a long time thanks to it.
in general (if you are f2p) the premium / event squads can easily replace the 9 soldier infantry squad, and they save you resources to upgrade the other 2 (assaulter / enginer) so i think they are useful, if used wisely
which as far as i remember, even in CBT many, many people proposed to have different premium squad loadouts that are not the same bland and generic 4 class. and yet devs still went with the 4 same class per squad.
sure, you had the ability to add additional troopers but that’s it. no engys, no anything else.
Yep, and MG ones are strong too. I use them even when i have maxed out campaigns, especially German Normandy one, that was in my deck from start and will be there always. And i even have all squads in Normandy maxed out, soo i still take them over “stronger” non-premium squads.
I can’t comment on the performance of Allies MG squads as I only play for Germany. But I can only add that the MG-13 squad is one of my main elements of the impact force in the Battle of Moscow campaign in various specific situations.
As for the problem, countless people, myself included, have come up with a wealth of ideas for Premium Squads. Since I love them, I can only say that at the moment, there are both better and completely useless premium squads, and as already mentioned, by playing wisely with them and taking advantage of xp boost and other bonuses to my advantage, they can become quite a useful element.
However, these are individualistic things. Overall, premium squads need to be redesigned substantially.
This. People cried during closed beta and they got nerfed into irrelevancy. They are worse in every possible way than free squads.
Do yourself a favor and spend that 50$ on ricing out a F2P squad with maxed weapons and fully unlocking their skill trees. The premium squads are pointless.
I personally just like the unique weapons like mp40/1 now that I’ve maxed out the progression. I do wish though for customization, perhaps the compromise can be that once you reach the appropriate campaign level you unlock more customization on that premium squad.
Would be a better system.
The OG (preorder) system of getting 6 superweapons to put wherever you please was a bit OP, but having more limited premium weapons would be nice.
