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Churchill Mk VIII - 95 mm howitzer gun. Could be like a brummbar. Or a short range arty
Churchill Mk V - same arty\AI unit.
Hell even Gun Carrier, 3-inch, Mk I, Churchill. While it was never used, it was build, its an early war unit and it makes much more sence then BP.
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Multiple variants of the same tank causes a bit of redundancy... and can make it somewhat harder to note at a glance what unit you're looking at.
In a similar vein: I hope they replace the UKF Sherman with something else, since USF already have multiple Shermans. The Grant or Cromwell would be ideal... with the Grant having never featured in the games before as a bonus.
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Given that we already have the Churchill (and possibly variants like the Croc and AVRE) in CoH3, I really would think that the Comet would be a better choice to fill the exact same niche. I think you could likely slot the Comet in the place of the BP and not even have to change the statistics.
Comet would be better than BP would would still feel out of place. I know I have said this like 10x already but imo it would be refreshing having to work with "Shit tanks" like Pz3 or Panzer 4 / Sherman and have the rare Tiger I (maybe even rare Panther) / Churchill (Croc) once in a while.
CoH2 has just oversaturated me with (Super) Heavies
Multiple variants of the same tank causes a bit of redundancy... and can make it somewhat harder to note at a glance what unit you're looking at.
What if we gave different Churchill variants (or different tanks in general, instead of one skin / vehile class) different skins? Similar to Tiger ace. That would add way more variety and distinctiveness than a gun that is a bit longer
In a similar vein: I hope they replace the UKF Sherman with something else, since USF already have multiple Shermans. The Grant or Cromwell would be ideal... with the Grant having never featured in the games before as a bonus.
Isn't the UKF sherman currently literally the same as the US one? Replacing it with the Sherman V would be a start I guess. Other than that: Grant needs do be added. That is for sure, but I doubt that they will make it the main battletank of UKF as it was very weak. I made a post over at the Dev. Forum that suggested implementing Grant/ Lee maybe as a Command Tank too
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Grant/Lee tanks in Italy nor any Cromwell or Comet tanks.
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I have checked my files and to be honest i cant find any
Grant/Lee tanks in Italy nor any Cromwell or Comet tanks.
This article claims that there were Grant based flail tanks used in Sicily
it also claims that there were M3 Command tanks used in Italy up until 1945
(saw this picture on Wikipedia too, where it was too claimed that this is in Italy but sadly can't find it at the moment)
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http://www.tankarchives.ca/2017/06/renault-d1-ft-on-steroids.html
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This article claims that there were Grant based flail tanks used in Sicily
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(saw this picture on Wikipedia too, where it was too claimed that this is in Italy but sadly can't find it at the moment)
So only some Scorpion IV were brought to Sicily and Italy.
I could find some M3 Lee tanks for the 34th US Infantry Division on Sicily.
So at least we have some Lee's on Sicily. Fine. Well done. Will add it to my theater list ^^
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So only some Scorpion IV were brought to Sicily and Italy.
I could find some M3 Lee tanks for the 34th US Infantry Division on Sicily.
So at least we have some Lee's on Sicily. Fine. Well done. Will add it to my theater list ^^
(Since I saw your post on the Dev. site I will also add one article here that says that there were Valentines in Italy)
Link
(The article is not really well sourced)
Edit:
By June 1943 the War Office had deleted
Valentines from British tank units, although many remained in Soviet,
Australian, New Zealand and Indian service, while British units in Europe
retained Valentines as artillery observation vehicles (main armament
removed), Bridgelayers, amphibious tanks, and tractors.
Valentine XI tanks (with 75mm guns) were used by anti-tank battalion
and battery commanders in the campaigns in north-west Europe and Italy
from late 1944 onwards.
Page 17 VALENTINE Infantry tank 1938–45, BRUCE OLIVER NEWSOME Ph.D
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What if we gave different Churchill variants (or different tanks in general, instead of one skin / vehile class) different skins? Similar to Tiger ace.
Exceedingly unlikely, since Relic are almost certainly going to be selling vehicle camouflage again. It's also possible they might extend that system to infantry, either through camouflage patterns, or even uniform variations.
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I’d be interested in having a lower tier of medium vehicles/tanks and then a final higher class of medium tanks.
The beauty of a game set in 1943 (I really do wish it was 1942, though) is that we get to avoid all of the late game monsters that were either allied prototypes or meth-fueled Nazi pipe dreams brought to life as desperate weapons.
All that said, we don’t need the black prince. Thanks for everyone else for doing the research. It looks like we’ve got lots of potential alternatives to work with that were present in the theater (Italy, presumably).
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Does everyone lose their shit when they play as soviets and land on some French based map??? Or when they see a piano or bath tub in a field because Coh2 seriously lacked useful models?
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They also add black soldiers to airborne so yeah very realstic gameOh no theres black people in my game boohoo cry more
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Black soldiers fought in the war. Black princes didn't. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
What about this guy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junio_Valerio_Borghese
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They also add black soldiers to airborne so yeah very realstic game
The Triple Nickels would like to say you're full of shit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555th_Parachute_Infantry_Battalion_(United_States)
Your prejudice is showing.
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Aside from that, it seems pretty clear Relic wants to give a special heavy unit to every faction. So they put an end with the actual design of factions being designed around lacks and OP units to compensate.
We shall all be glad about that instead of jerking because the black prince wasn't in Italy.
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If you guys want to see an independent Italian, or maybe the Japanese forces present in the game. There is no other way but to introduce some phototypes or even pure made-up units. Neither of these two countries even had a formidable army during the war.
Let us be honest here, at least in CoH2, the main deciding factor in the late games in team games are how many heavy tanks each player has. Which, to some degree, is a great blessing to the German force but a complete turn down for the Italian and the Japanese. P40 never served in the Italian army. Type-3, oh well, got somewhat present in the war, was still only a direct counterpart to the Sherman.
That is being said, if any of you guys think you are smart enough to present a roster for those two forces without introducing any phototype. Go ahead, do it, and show them here.
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Seriously, time to stop this drama.
If you guys want to see an independent Italian, or maybe the Japanese forces present in the game. There is no other way but to introduce some phototypes or even pure made-up units. Neither of these two countries even had a formidable army during the war.
Let us be honest here, at least in CoH2, the main deciding factor in the late games in team games are how many heavy tanks each player has. Which, to some degree, is a great blessing to the German force but a complete turn down for the Italian and the Japanese. P40 never served in the Italian army. Type-3, oh well, got somewhat present in the war, was still only a direct counterpart to the Sherman.
That is being said, if any of you guys think you are smart enough to present a roster for those two forces without introducing any phototype. Go ahead, do it, and show them here.
Wrong answer. One of the few Carro Armato P 40s used by RSI (Repubblica Sociale Italiana). This tank was abandoned at the end of May 1945 in Milan.
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V2 you can aim with pinpoint accuracy on the head of a single soldier? Fine because the V2 was fired, sound logic.
Magic wallhack halftracks? Absolutely fine. The physical thing existed so what it does is 100% irrelevent.
People who care about historical accuracy and immersion so much they'll have a fit about a prototype unit designed being used in a game series where you can fire two panzershrecks inside a garden shed with absoutely no consequences.
People really like to pick their standards of historical accuracy when it suits them.
I get why it's there. The meta of the heavy tank being the culmination of the tech tree is a thing. The US and UK didn't waste the resources fielding fleets of ever larger heavies in the real war (because, make no mistake, heavy tanks were a waste) - so dragging out some vehicles that went through trials is a way to avoid the skew towards the Axis. And the other churchill designs exist, so visually it's pretty small deviation. They didn't even adjust it to reflect the wider hull.
I'd rather see a BP than a Centurion. Even if both of them were designed and first minted in '43 and '45.
I wonder if they'll stick with the Pershing for the US, skip it alltogether, or we'll see the M6 heavy roll in from the testing grounds...
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