The new factions should be:

Jump back to quoted post4 Mar 2015, 23:46 PMBrachiaraidos

50% of factions in game are German. Why do we need more German factions?

I know you wehraboos have a ceaseless chub on for the glorious Krupp Steel, but the axis forces in WWII were formed from many, many countries.

Japan and Italy are obviously the major powers, but plenty of affiliates and clients existed.

Can we pick at least one of them to represent in game yet? If we blow our chance with Italy we may never get another shot again.

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 00:11 AMMarcoRossolini

Finns and Soviets.

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 00:42 AMferwiner

Would be cool. Too bad it's even earlier than africa korps... They started to create early war factions in ToW, they should give them automatch and add few new factions. That way we could also get france, japan, italy, maybe even grece, early british forces, the fun could never end. But they have chosen to pick late war timing when most countries are already defeated or use anachronic equipment.

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 00:42 AMferwiner

Would be cool. Too bad it's even earlier than africa korps... They started to create early war factions in ToW, they should give them automatch and add few new factions. That way we could also get france, japan, italy, maybe even grece, early british forces, the fun could never end. But they have chosen to pick late war timing when most countries are already defeated or use anachronic equipment.

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 01:13 AMMarcoRossolini

You can always do the Continuation war. That's slap bang in the time zone...

Jump back to quoted post4 Mar 2015, 22:59 PMCookiezNcreem

The new factions could have special matchmaking where they only see other new factions and only see them on certain maps..im sure enough people would buy said factions as well for that to work properly.

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 04:04 AMCrecer13

Um .... And where is the option of the USSR against Japan?
As the developers say - this game will focus on the Eastern Front.
Well, give me a new Red Army.

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 04:05 AMAlexzandvar

It would be so stupidly lopsided as to be comical. Yeah little 45mm light tanks facing off against IS2's and '3s.

Soviets losses:
9,726 KIA/MIA
24,425 WIA

Japanese losses:
83,737 KIA
640,276 POWs

Jump back to quoted post4 Mar 2015, 23:31 PMturbotortoise

Man, just envisioning the desert rats/long range desert groups. you thought the clown car was dead and gone.

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 04:23 AMAlexzandvar

A KV-1 would be like a King Tiger to the Japanese army.

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 04:28 AMAlexzandvar

And to put things in perspective; The KV-1 was the premier mainline Soviet Heavy Tank in 1939-1942

This was the mainline Soviet Heavy Tank when facing off against the Japanese



FEED ME FASCIST SCUM

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 05:09 AMMarcoRossolini

There's no definite proof that the IS-3 saw action in the Far East.

I like how you guys harp on about how inferior Japanese tanks are when the game isn't just about tanks. I still think Anti-tank lunge mines, amongst other things, would be an awesome thing to put into the game. The Japanese can have all kinds of infantry counters to tanks. Given how allied players are used to facing off against markedly superior tanks all the time (with terrible infantry AT, which the Japanese probably wouldn't have) I don't see how different it would be for Japanese players.