Profile of Tobis

I don't recall Relic outright stating that the Japanese were absolutely out of the question. The most I've ever seen them say is that they're "not in our current plans" at whatever timeframe they were asked the question.

I believe someone asked them during a Relic stream around that time to clarify and they said for sure no Japanese faction.

They've gone back on so much of what they have said at this point, I don't think any answer can be trusted.

Maybe the April fools joke is that it's not a joke.

I think this image proves that the Panzer III is a joke.

Hotchkiss confirmed.

They are durable as rifles(not when vetted though, unless we talk ooc heal vs rec acc as both affect staying power).
They are packed with utility like cons(flame nades, possible doctrinal cancer nades, hard at, build sanbags).
They punch like grens(actually, they surpass grens unless grens go LMG).

They only lack cover acc bonus, other then that, they already have something from every other infantry squad, so they are pretty much like all the other infantry in one unit already.

And they definitely won't get weapon that wasn't used for years already.

That was some impressive mental gymnastics right there.
Let's not make them even more like 5 man grens/osttruppen with grenades by giving them the faust.

Also I am aware that the Panzerbuchse is outdated, I am not 100% on the idea. OKW has a problem with fighting early game light vehicle rushes until they get a few panzerschrecks out. The problem is the Panzerschrecks on all their mainline infantry are too effective a counter against late game armor, which OKW has plenty of tools to work with in the late game. There needs to be a solution that is good against stopping light vehicles, but meh against real armor. AT rifles perfectly fit this role. I don't see a better solution to the problem without relic having to add more content to the game, which they wont. The Panzerbuchse is already in the game in ToW.

I would also like to mention that I don't think volks are super OP with schrecks, but they are just a cancer for gameplay. It promotes poor play when your most effective anti-tank unit is also your effective infantry unit. The weight of OKW AT needs to be shifted onto their other units instead of the volks.

Oh yeah. I forgot. Nevermind. I guess people aren't free to speak their mind and not worry about being censored.

It's not even a leak or break of NDA, it's ridiculous that they close this. But They can do what they want.

This isn't even the official forum. Why are they even practicing censorship? What right states that the forum can just delete it?

The terms of service you accept when you use the forum. They can delete whatever they want.