Profile of Vermillion_Hawk

As a side note I would be perfectly fine with a skin that replaced the .50cal gunner with a guy wielding an STG44.

Any kind of user-generated retreat point that isn't an in-game object is a non-starter, for those suggesting that. I can already picture semi-disposable squads like Pioneers "retreating" into your base and scouting all your stuff.

Yeah I'd definitely also like to demolish the notion that America is the unequivocal "good guy" when they were producing racial propaganda on the Pacific front and subtly or overtly encouraging things like executing prisoners, killing civilian populations and taking Japanese skulls as trophies while also treating their draftees as basically expendable in some very notable battles on all fronts.

The Allies did plenty of awful shit too and I don't think it gets nearly enough attention (especially since in this game's campaign we're apparently "capturing" Monte Cassino), but I find it far more disturbing to find people trying to equate what the Allies did with what the Nazis did, or else veer into some form of apologism like I described earlier.

So yeah, have a German campaign, but maybe have a realistic one depicting a force that used human shields to enable their blitzkrieg through northern Europe, regularly executed prisoners, enacted brutal reprisals on civilian populations and employed people like the Dirlewanger brigade. I can guarantee we'd see protests above and beyond those of Company of Heroes 2's campaign, which, with a few notable exceptions, largely depicted exaggerated versions of things that actually happened at one time or another on the Eastern Front.

And no, those listed campaigns don't necessarily do something wrong, but they are contributing to the mystique that there was something special or admirable or comparable in their stories. Maybe the Panzer Elite campaign should have depicted the rampant looting that German forces engaged in during Operation Market Garden.

Ah yes, all those Germans defending their country in France and Russia. Sure, there was some dissent from the rank and file but there were clearly a good majority of soldiers, not just in the SS, who were okay with things like using human shields and executing prisoners.

I really don't want to see any romanticization of the conflict but that's somewhat of a lost cause.

1v1 will always be the centre of an RTS game. It's the most pure form of competition and as such any good competitive RTS will balance it first and let the rest follow. This worked out fine for Company of Heroes 2 for the most part.