As the title suggests, we should be able to reliably purchase the most basic unit in the game with the most basic currency.
I do not enjoy getting 15 pilots for every 1 trooper I happen to get. Many of the classes are too specific to be part of the random selection.
Firstly a question to air players and tank players( I only play tanks ), are the number of tankers and pilots we receive in bronze buying too many? I personally would not mind if they were locked behind silver orders as their role is extremely specific, and they have no use beyond the vehicle squads, F2P players such as myself can only bring 1 after all.
My suggestions are as follows and are alternatives:
Spend 2 bronze orders to buy 1 trooper guaranteed rank 1-5 or even 1-3
Keep bronze orders as they are and give 1 guaranteed trooper with every pull
Keep pilots and tankers as silver order only (my least favourite option, as we still get every other class which we dont need a lot of)
But yes, you are correct. At least lvl 1 trooper. But if I have to spend 8 random orders to get one trooper… dear god.
User Bravo_two_Six in that thread also head good idea: That would actually be quite a good idea, or even the ability to retrain 3 specialist into standard troopers. I must have like 25 radio operators
One day I will spend some 50 orders in all campaigns where I didn’t progress so far to maximize the number of troopers at the beginning. No other way to “cheat” the game.
i dont know what problems do you have but i have the fucking russian army as german infantry trooper but need pilots and tank crews so do you want to replae mine with your problem ??
Sitting on over a hundred bronze troop orders. If I need some specific guy I just keep using them till I get one. When you start training them to get squads filled with level 5s, you will burn through all of those reserves really fast.
Yeah, seems preposterous to me to waste a silver order on a trooper (I generally refer to them as riflemen), and it seems silly that there’s not an easier way to get them. They’re like the basic b*tch in this game. Thus far the only special thing about them is that they can use rifle grenades. I mean, that’s cool and all, but still, if ANY class deserves to be more common than others, it’s troopers.
Thats an unfortunate train of thought, as any amount of mindless grind can be justified. We as players should want the game to be a game, something to spend our free time on, not a job to be worked. Frankly, basic items should not be subject to such high levels of RNG. It makes progression slow and painful and will turn away a lot of players, I specify warthunder as a prime example where we even need to research Fire protection and repair kits, which is frankly insane. I don’t want this game to turn into another war thunder.
You get 3 troopers minimum with each squad you unlock in the campaign. More than any other class.
You will hate yourself for getting more troopers daily then the others when you reach end game. Troopers are useles. Why use a trooper if you can use a trooper with a hammer, a flamethrower, a radio, you get my point? Troopers are only gun carriers.
If you really insist on using tons of troopers that is on you to be honest and a choice you make in the game. I could easely make a threat with: You should be able to buy assaulters with bronze orders directly. Because I have 10 assaulters in my squads and only 3 troopers.
Ok, I think it would be best to address the endgame issue here as well.
If as you say, troopers are useless to endgame players, why even have them in the mix of bronze orders, putting them in a separate category would help both new players who need them, and removes them from the pool for players in the endgame who don’t.
Additionally, the 3 troopers you get at the start are kind of soft locked to a squad, as, since I don’t have extra troopers, I can’t really level them up or move them around, as the game doesn’t let you assign reserve squad troops to active troops (which is also a problem in my opinion).
It boils down to this, troopers are a product of necessity, hence they should be always obtainable without randomness, make them cost slightly more, but make it possible to get them reliably.
My point was, the only moment you really need a trooper is when you get a new squad but those come with troopers in them.
There is never a moment you dont have enough troopers to start up the game. The moment you need aditional troopers is after you level squads up and by that time you have enough xp gathered with said squad that you have at least 5-6 troopers with the bronze orders.
If you want to buy troopers for 2 bronze that is perfectly fine with me. I think most people wont use it and it would be a lost feature.
The “minimum” for soldiers required in a squad to enter battle kind of negates this point though, doesn’t it. I can’t swap out leveled troopers for their non-existent replacements, even for squads in reserve.
A better compromise might be allowing for squads not in rotation to be emptied and have their soldiers be transferred to squads that are actually going into battle.