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nigo is quinn duffy, im sure of it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Special_Naval_Landing_Forces

This could be a faction focused around trickery and aggro, like the Panzer Elite. It makes sense for them to fight the existing factions, but not in the current maps. But that canon was broke long ago when the USF invaded Stalingrad.

The Japanese 47mm AT gun could penetrate M4A3s at 800 yards so they would be able to fight armor btw.

What's the scoop Nigo? This stuff legit?

As far as I know, USA were fighting in Europe, opposite to Japs.

As far as i know the usf was not fighting on the eastern front which was the main objection at the time.

As far as i know the usf was not fighting on the eastern front which was the main objection at the time.

We had eastern front and then Relic introduced western front.
Everything is fine.

If you want Japs, you need pacific front, not Europe.

We had eastern front and then Relic introduced western front.
Everything is fine.

If you want Japs, you need pacific front, not Europe.

Yes, we need a counterpart for the Japs (if Relic decides to launch them), that is the US Marine Corps.

We have the following fighting pairs:
Sovjets vs Ostheer
USF vs OKW
Brits vs ...

The Brits natural counterpart is the combined Italian/German army. Of course the Brits fought against OKW in Europe, but the USF fought also against the Italian/German army in Sicily and Italy.

Yes, we need a counterpart for the Japs (if Relic decides to launch them), that is the US Marine Corps.

We have the following fighting pairs:
Sovjets vs Ostheer
USF vs OKW
Brits vs ...

The Brits natural counterpart is the combined Italian/German army. Of course the Brits fought against OKW in Europe, but the USF fought also against the Italian/German army in Sicily and Italy.

I had planned to avoid this thread, but I just want to say that not every army needs a perfect matchup and the OKW fought both the brits and the USF.

People are actually claiming that the Japanese Naval Landing Forces can't be in CoH2 because it breaks "immersion"

We broke immersion a while ago when you could play as the US Army fighting the Germans in Stalingrad and Eastern Europe, or communists fighting the Germans in France. We have early WW2 technology/equipment combined with late war technology/units so we're well beyond the point of no return.

I'd personally support the Imperial Japanese Army being included in CoH2, since it would be refreshing to see a Panzer Elite-esque type faction(Heavy focus on versatile infantry, light vehicles and mobility).

The Japanese were also the only Army in WW2 where officers carried swords into battle

If that doesn't pique your interest then nothing will.


Another thing to take into account is when people said that they would stop playing CoH2 if Relic included the Americans into CoH2 a while ago. The playerbase actually increased and alot of the people who were complaining and ready to quit CoH2 never did

The same thing will happen if Relic announces the Japanese faction; people will say "Japan can't be in CoH2 because it breaks immersion! If Relic does this, i'm quitting CoH2!" and when Relic actually does release the faction, those same people will still play CoH2, and the playerbase will increase.

Relic will create a new faction for sure, so it will be 3v3 factions, while i hate afrika corps fanboys and dozens of their threads of how afrika corps should look like, and this faction will never happen, NEVER, in CoH series, while Japanese would be the last obvious faction, despite the fact that they were at war for 8 years against china and then Murica they had a good army composition equal to environment they were fighting on, that's why, you stupid japanese haters, they had NO GARDENING HEAVIES and they relied heavily on artillery, infantry and light tanks

We had eastern front and then Relic introduced western front.
Everything is fine.

If you want Japs, you need pacific front, not Europe.

mate who gives a fuck about fronts? We have brits and ami's holding the line in Stalingrad. we see t-34's cruising through the French country side and (hopefully soon) soon we have the japanese and germans blowing allied stuff up together.

I see people asking for the Africa corps this will just be the next German faction while i want something new for a change.

Another thing to take into account is when people said that they would stop playing CoH2 if Relic included the Americans into CoH2 a while ago. The playerbase actually increased and alot of the people who were complaining and ready to quit CoH2 never did

I wasn't around at the time, but why would they quit if USF was introduced?

I wasn't around at the time, but why would they quit if USF was introduced?

Because they believed CoH2 to be focused exclusively around the Eastern Front, since it was marketed as such and so having Western armies in CoH2 seemed impossible in their eyes. Those same people also thought that having the US Army would ruin immersion and thus ruin their enjoyment of CoH2.

It's why I still facepalm when people say "X army/unit and etc will ruin immersion". Immersion was thrown out the window a long time ago, and they're still complaining? It's too late now, if you want your authentic immersion, you would have to cut out a ton of units, maps, weapons and create new one's entirely from scratch and that won't happen.

Because they believed CoH2 to be focused exclusively around the Eastern Front, since it was marketed as such and so having Western armies in CoH2 seemed impossible in their eyes. Those same people also thought that having the US Army would ruin immersion and thus ruin their enjoyment of CoH2.

It's why I still facepalm when people say "X army/unit and etc will ruin immersion". Immersion was thrown out the window a long time ago, and they're still complaining? It's too late now, if you want your authentic immersion, you would have to cut out a ton of units, maps, weapons and create new one's entirely from scratch and that won't happen.

I also remember that someone here says that automatch need "Authentic Mode" where Soviets can't fight together with USF in one team. And how everyone was impressed when sees T-34 in Western Front Armies first trailer.
They were like

Soviets and USF fighting together??? This can't be true, immerison is broken, i will leave the game if this will happen!!!!

And we're still fine.

Japs can fight with USF and Soviets, that's why they most obvious faction to add.
Units? You can look at their unit pool in Men of War: Assault Squad.
Italians will be another German faction, to be honest. You can add some obscure units to them like Hotchkiss, Pz3 and another, but their lategame will be complete rip-off from OKW/Ostheer (they both have PZ4/Panther).

Relic can make Japs army for COH2, fifteen basic units and few in commanders is not that much.
But i still think that they're working fulltime on DOW3 and COH2 team almost not exist right now.

I also remember that someone here says that automatch need "Authentic Mode" where Soviets can't fight together with USF in one team. And how everyone was impressed when sees T-34 in Western Front Armies first trailer.
They were like



And we're still fine.

Japs can fight with USF and Soviets, that's why they most obvious faction to add.
Units? You can look at their unit pool in Men of War: Assault Squad.
Italians will be another German faction, to be honest. You can add some obscure units to them like Hotchkiss, Pz3 and another, but their lategame will be complete rip-off from OKW/Ostheer (they both have PZ4/Panther).

Relic can make Japs army for COH2, fifteen basic units and few in commanders is not that much.
But i still think that they're working fulltime on DOW3 and COH2 team almost not exist right now.

I don't think Italians would need things like Hotchkiss because they have their own machine guns and also better than Hotchkiss, i don't know if you read my italian army proposal but italians late game could be a massive use of P26/40 tanks + Cannone da 75/46 M34 (which is both AT and AA gun) which is very helpful against other tanks, also you can rely on the two SPGs (armed with a 75mm gun and the other 90mm gun) and the 75mm AT gun.
You also have doctrines which can really help, so i don't think that italians late game would be completely ripped off by OKW and Ostheer, i agree that late game won't be what italians really do well but they won't be hopeless at it.

Obviously this is only speculation, italians are not in game, i can't try this faction because you can't mod factions, so this remains a speculation

PS: sorry, i though you meant the Hotchkiss (the machine gun) but maybe you meant the tank, i really don't know why this tank should be given to the italians due to the fact that no Hotchkiss tanks were given to the italian army, so it wouldn't have sense at all in my opinion

PS: sorry, i though you meant the Hotchkiss (the machine gun) but maybe you meant the tank, i really don't know why this tank should be given to the italians due to the fact that no Hotchkiss tanks were given to the italian army, so it wouldn't have sense at all in my opinion

I just want to say Italian faction will not fit "late WW2" timeline, so they need T3-T4 German units. I mean they will be (if they ever be) half-German, half-Italian faction which allow any unit that Relic will want to add, even the Hotchkiss tank.

What's the scoop Nigo? This stuff legit?

9 pages for April 1st.


Thanks guys

9 pages for April 1st.


Thanks guys

Now that the naive imperial tentacle porn and fasist pasta fans dreams were crushed, we can move on

I don't even know what did they expected on the April 1st

Facist Afrika Korps > Imperial Anime Navy

(Heavy focus on versatile infantry, light vehicles and mobility).

You mean USF?

Facist Afrika Korps > Imperial Anime Navy

Nope, it's a boring desert, and sucks German position - so had to take trophy F-22 cannon (PAK-36 (R)), British also captured trophy Soviet BT - Germans in Africa as beggars - boring