What are you expecting from the British Army?

Jump back to quoted post15 Mar 2015, 01:16 AMREforever

Winston Churchill once said "If I had Canadian soldiers, American technology and British officers, I would rule the World".

Jump back to quoted post15 Mar 2015, 13:28 PMOZtheWiZARD

I am expecting broken balance.

Jump back to quoted post15 Mar 2015, 01:34 AMturbotortoise

6th para.
guards & welshies :3

keeping it in theme with the operation, i guess it would probably have to model 30 corps unless they change theater entirely.

but really, i think someone mentioned it here already. i sort of expect the introduction, if the rumors are true to just be a support arm of the usf. :\

Jump back to quoted post15 Mar 2015, 13:28 PMOZtheWiZARD

I am expecting broken balance.

Jump back to quoted post15 Mar 2015, 15:11 PMBurts

I expect the british army to be a part of USF in coh 2. Some british commander abilities and that's it.


Why do i think this? Notice it only says "british commander pack" it the game files, along with OKW, Soviet, Wehrmacht and USF commander packs.

There is no 3rd axis faction mentioned. And having 3 allied factions but only 2 axis factions while plausible, i dont think its going to happen.

Jump back to quoted post15 Mar 2015, 17:33 PMAerohank

You can´t break something that is already broken.

Jump back to quoted post15 Mar 2015, 11:07 AMBrachiaraidos

I'd quite like to see something with a focus similar to that that the OKW has to deal with. Similar but not the same.

Commonwealth inclusion is an obvious go to, so there's that. Plenty of vehicle and weapon designs and manpower support from all the British territories.

But I'd also like a real focus in the tech structure towards long time preservation of units and retrofitting, specifically in the armour department.

Unlike Russia and to a certain extent Gremany, the UK had a very small landmass with which to produce vehicles. They couldn't just churn out prototype designs every other day, and there was a lot of fitting old hulls with equipment as and when it was needed. Either back home by adapting an old hull to a new armament, on on the field by just welding whatever you could find into the damn thing.

The ability, for example, to start the game with a very early Churchill I tank. Expensive but available quickly, as it comes with all the glory of a 2pdr and a fixed traverse 3in gun in the hull. If it survives my teching attempts, bring it back to base and replace the turret to make it a Churchill III or IV, and with a little patience for my fourth tech tier I can then retrofit that with a 75mm gun and (slightly in the face of reality) adapt the hull into a Mk VII. Commanders, perhaps, could offer the option for upgrading that into a Crocodile or an AVRE or adding a mine plough.

Or tanks like the Valentine. Sure, keep it alive, up the gun to a 6pdr or a 75mm. Keep it alive late into the game and you can adapt it to the late game with a 17pdr in a superstructure, giving you a heavy AT platform on the reasonably cheap. Which also happens to go faster in reverse, as the gun is mounted backwards, so to speak.

What I never ever want to see again is another unit that gives area buffs and vet equivalents. Just let my infantry vet up like normal. Ideally to vet 4 or 5, given how long the Brits had been in the war. Make the exhausted Brits and the exhausted OKW nice counterparts to one another on the battered western front. Releasing them at the same time would have been a bit samey, but by now I reckon we're ready.

Jump back to quoted post15 Mar 2015, 18:49 PMbraciszek

Scaling tanks? That sounds cool as hell...

Jump back to quoted post15 Mar 2015, 20:17 PMPorygon

How about, there are actually no Brits coming?