Profile of Tiger Baron

Yeah I gotta say it's really disheartening to see ~LATE-WAR GERMANS~ for the 6th and 7th time in a row. It's Italy and Africa, can we please have 1943 and some Italian forces?

Technically they are the 1943 Germany Army for the Wehrmacht and 1942 German Army for the DAK.

Late war would mean stuff like the King Tiger, Jagdpanther, Jagdtiger and other 1944 equipment.

And they don't even have the Elefant which as everybody that has read about the vehicle knows that at least 1 of 2 the battalions that was equipped with them were sent back to Germany after Kursk to be refurbished and then sent to to the Southern Front and by that I mean Sicily/Italy, only around 2 Battalions of Tigers made it to Africa and they were the heaviest German tanks there or in general really, Allies didn't have anything that can stand toe to toe with them and they all feared the Flak 88.

I remember in one documentary where some British tankers were interviewed that were in Matildas and they thought they were invincible because they were one of the most heavily armored tanks around at that time, but as with France the 88s really took the crown away from the Queen of the Desert.

But anyway I think Africa is going to be more interesting because of the terrain and tech being used there. They didn't really dig trenches and so forth from what I know, mostly had strongpoints on both sides so it's going to be more mobile warfare and a bigger reliance on vehicles, especially tanks.

And hell maybe even lighter tanks will actually be good and serve a purpose even in the later parts of matches now as opposed to being obsolete once the medium boys are on the field.

CoH1 made a great german campaign. For me it was a huge suprise that CoH2 didn't have german campaign especially that they intensionally remove battle of Kursk from soviet campaign. Then Western Front DLC and Arden push. It was a huge german offensive which did great progres in first days - yet they focus only on USF.

Entire USF Arden Assault campaign seems very wierd as in first mission you have german pushing your frontline and then suddenly you are the one in offensive.

I think Relic will learn that axis campaign is what a lot of people asking for. Question is if it's gonna be in release (which i doubt as allies campaign seems pretty big).

I just hope this german campaign will be as story line similar to old coh1 campaigns. Smaller number of missions but well thought and design is way better.

CoH2 felt like a product of corporate meddling after SEGA took over for some reason with as you said a poorly executed Soviet campaign and non-existent German one even tho there was a big opportunity for one showing Operation Barbarossa or the Ardennes as you said.

CoH3 seems to have a more balanced and community involved approach, at least so far that isn't until the game is actually released.

I doubt there won't be any long lists of DLC shenanigans going on again sadly but I guess thats just modern gaming nowadays altho I would say many people are against the practice and I myself know people that said they'd never play CoH2 because of the amount of DLCs and P2W mechanics that were in the early days of the game with 5 dollar premium commanders that were better than anything else in the game at that time and were then nerfed after a month to make room for the next batch of OP commanders so they will most likely miss out on a lot of potential customers again if they decide to milk the game once more.

And I honestly prefer the dynamic approach since it's non-linear meaning that you have far more options and freedom to make your own experience and not to mention replayability, like the Total War games.

Altho I would still enjoy a good story and new cutscenes.

Well it's pretty much confirmed that Italians won't have their own faction (at least on release) and in game files right now contrain very little information about them, but a few units for axis/allied side and partisans.

They are either not ready and yet not in the files or they are most likely will play major part in a DAK faction and not the Wehrmacht we have in alpha right now. Since there are mostly only text conformation that DAK is the fourth faction and almost no files related this could explain the lack of the Italians right now.

There are a couple of Italian infantry units, a couple of vehicles from what I'm seeing and an Italian howitzer as well in the sbps for the Germans -

It's possible that the AI uses Battlegroups and similar, though. Is it necessarily evidence of Axis campaigns?

I mean generally if you go through CoH2's files using it's own Archive Viewer you will notice that they don't really have campaign folders like here.

They only have _sp units which are used in the Allied campaigns so it makes sense to me with all of the evidence we have that there will be a German campaign in Africa with Rommel in this game as opposed to CoH2.

Plus there's also mention of the DAK in the files as well, further hinting at the above.

I can confirm from digging in the game's files that there will be a German campaign since there's battlegroups and units listed there, including Italian ones: