Profile of GrenadierIT19

Hey mate i'm not against adding a new axis faction but if there should be a third faction i think it must be:

1) Not a new german faction: 2 games with 4 german factions, then a 5th, or the 3rd for a game i think it's enough, also what vehicles haven't been portrayed for Germany in this game? I know there's still Panzer I, Marder II, Bison, Wespe but seriously, germans have so many vehicles that i think adding new ones would be unnecessary, remember that even if the European theater of war was mostly germany vs the world, there were also italians, hungarians, romanians and finns.

2) Why Afrika Korps? I don't know what you know but the famous Afrika Korps was part of the axis forces in Africa, the famous Afrika Korps was composed of 15. and 21. Panzerdivisionen and 90. and 164. leichte infanterie-divisionen during El Alamein, and the 10. Panzerdivision was sent after El Alamein, while Italians deployed more than 24 divisions.
So it would have more sense if it would be an italian faction + german units, also remember that Rommel, even if having the possibility to ask to the OKW (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, not Oberkommando West), he was under italian high commander and under "Delease" (the italian high command delegation in Libya).

3) Adding every faction that is not german would give a very different kind of gameplay as an axis faction

4) Skins: problems for DAK winter or summer skins? Italians have would have both desert, summer and winter skins. Problem solved.

Leaving the usual jokes aside, italians bla bla bla, i'm sure that adding a non-german faction as axis will be perfect for the game or change the automatch searching Allies vs Axis with Allies vs Germans.

I've been working on an Italian faction mod for a bit, and I think they're workable- in the same vein as USF and soviets, they can't exceed T3- level armor units. They have good variety of interesting light vehicles and a lot of elite infantry divisions (Folgore Paracadutisti, Bersaglieri, Guastatori assault engineers, Alpini) to fill out commanders.

Awesome idea! Fantastic! Just one thing that you wrote wrong the Lieutenant which is not "tenete" but "teneNte", the rest is OK! also those fantastic images for units.
I made this idea for an italian army: http://community.companyofheroes.com/forum/company-of-heroes-2/wishlist/191180-italian-army-for-coh2-second-idea

This is Grittle's idea http://community.companyofheroes.com/forum/company-of-heroes-2/wishlist/196004-grittle-s-italian-front-axis-army-heeresgruppenkommando-idea-version-2

and also yours is fantastic!
Personally, i'd prefer mine but if the other ones are better, why not?

SO, ON TOPIC:
I'd really love that CoH2 won't stop making new factions (also balancing), i think that the new factions should be Italy, France and Hungary instead of Finland but sincerely i don't know what to choose if Hungary of Finland because i'd prefer Hungary but also Finland is good so ... i don't know

About my idea if you read you see how it works and what would have the units but in that page there aren't some informations, you talked about the Carcano rifle, imported weapons? Yeah, germans sent to Italy some tanks like PzIV, StuGIII, 88mm FlaK and 7,5 cm kanon PL Vz37. But the italian army is plenty of weapons that these could be left aside (i made a german support commander to remind that great help the germans gave to italians).

So, infantry weapons:
- Carcano 91/38 is a bolt-action rifle, caliber 7,35mm (7,92 for karabiner, 7,62 for mosin, 7,7 for lee enfield), 6 shots, effective range: 1000m
- Beretta MAB38 is a SMG, caliber 9mm (9mm for MP40, 7,62 for PPSH41, 11,5mm for Thompson and 9mm for Sten), different rounds but the most used was 40 shots, effective range: 200mm
- Beretta M1934 is a pistol, caliber 9mm (9mm for Luger and 11,43 for Colt M1911), 7 shots, 50m range
- FNAB-43 is a SMG, caliber 9mm, 40 shots and range 400m
- Armaguerra M39 is a semi-auto rifle, 7,35mm caliber, 6 shots, range 300m

Then we have team weapons:
- Breda M37 HMG: 8mm caliber (7,92mm for MG42, 12,7mm for Browning, 7,62 for Maxim, 7,7mm for Vickers), 20 round strip, 2000m range
- Brixia Mortar: 45mm caliber, light mortar, range 500m
- 81mm Mortar: 81mm caliber, range 3100m with standard 3kg grenade, 1500mm with 6kg grenade

Artillery:
- the first number after the name "Cannone" shows the caliber
- Cannone 47/32 it's a 47mm cannon
- Cannone 75/32is a 75mm cannon
- Cannone 90/53 is a 90mm cannon
- Cannone 75/18 is a 75mm howitzer
- Cannone 149/40 is a 149mm howitzer

Vehicles:
- the FIAT AS42 has a Solothurn S-18/1000 AT rifle and a Breda M37 HMG
- the Autoblindo 43 has a 47mm AT gun
- the SPA dovunque 35 has a FIAT-Revelli M35 HMG similar to Breda M37

Tanks: (the number after the letter means the tons)
- L3/33 is a tankette, armed with 2 Breda M38 that are simply the Breda M37 mounted on vehicles
- L6/40 is a light tank armed with a 20mm autocannon and a Breda M38
- M15/42 is a light tank (even if in italian it's classified as medium) armed with a 47mm gun
- P26/40 is a medium tank (even if in italian it's classified as heavy) armed with a 75mm gun
- Semovente 75/18 is a SPG armed with a 75mm gun
- Semovente 90/53 is a SPG armed with a 90mm AT gun

So this is more or less the kind of weapons they have, also if you read you can read how it's organized, the units in the buildings, abilities, commanders and so on.

I'd like your feedback

regarding non-german factions: noone (including me/japan might be an exception, but they dont really belong to the european theatre) would buy them. yes i know some of you on here would, but the silent majority of coh2 players wouldnt really care about those factions. hence no revenue for relic, ergo they wont do it

but keep dreaming

Hey it doesn't mean that if something about WW2 isn't german (about axis forces i mean) = it sucks and i don't understand why people think a faction sucks even if they have never tried it also because at the moment doesn't exist. I don't understand how you know that the silent majority of CoH2 players wouldn't buy a possible Italian, Hungarian or Finnish faction. Have you asked everyone what they think? I would buy a possible Italian faction for many reasons and I respect your opinion but I'm sure that a new axis faction is possible and (IMHO) that faction should be Italy and after my sentence the shitstorm would arrive people saying the usual bullshits and thinking that Italians don't suit the game date (I repeat that eastern front armies are set in 1943 during Kursk when Italy was still in the axis side) and also people who still believe that Italian soldiers were sent to war without ammo, rifles, food. Also tanks ahahah you'll read people saying that Italian tanks sucks because they are Italian tanks and not comparing their role against their real counterparts (the M13 is a LIGHT tank not a medium one) and people forgetting that in CoH the armies aren't only infantry and tanks but there are also AT guns, vehicles, commander abilities and aircrafts.
I also don't understand people asking for Afrika Korps that was a part of the axis forces in Africa (we have 5 German divisons with 24 Italian divisions) but who cares? Only because they are Germans they are better. Is it obvious or not?
Also the great Italian lacks were leadership but in game the leader is the player and the lack of resources to produce the vehicles and tanks, but in game you have manpower automatically and you find fuel and ammo all over the map, so the lack of resources (that also doesn't happen to Germans)isn't so important in CoH2.
Also people forgetting that the Italian army of 1943 was very different and modernized compared to the Italian army of 1940 during Greece and Op. Compass that people says everytime when you talk about the Italians and forget the years after.

M13/40


M14/41

M15/42

Semovente 75/18


Semovente 105/25 "Bassotto"

Semovente 90/53

its just the 1st episode , you saw the others ?

On SKY, National Geographic.