Profile of Vermillion_Hawk

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Ah yes, I'm a socialist liberal (neither of those things) for saying that actual Nazis are attracted to World War II games. I thought this was fairly obvious but of course, if you ask around there are about as many Nazis here as the Nuremberg trials, thankfully because it has been obviously stigmatized to hell and back.

It's funny because forums like these for World War II games are the last places that I see the myths about the Wehrmacht that were debunked by actual historians still spread around. Myths that were written by the actual SS and former high-ranking Nazis looking to avoid a noose and garner additional sympathy from their occupiers. Company of Heroes 2 got in trouble for its campaign which largely (save maybe burning its own soldiers alive) depicted actual atrocities that happened at some point or another in the Red Army over the course of the war, without touching on some of the real atrocities, as you've mentioned, also lovely things like using penal squads as human minesweepers, etc.

I'd wager this game would get an equal amount of backlash if they realistically portrayed Rommel as a lucky opportunist and not 4D chess-playing Nazi Jesus as his popular portrait seems to make him out as, which was, mind you, part of that postwar propaganda which was encouraged by the British because it made them look better for beating him in North Africa when he didn't have a chance of winning it to begin with.

And I love the "Wehrmacht wasn't racist" thing, pretty much every army was fucking racist to whatever degree, it's just the British wouldn't have turned their colonial troops into soap and candles if they didn't have a crippling manpower shortage. If you missed it that was intentional hyperbole by the way.

For the record I don't really have a "side". I think, generally, the glorification of war is troubling, doubly so when it leads people, in whatever small ways, down the path of sympathy for an awful regime, whichever one. I also think the American army committed a ridiculous share of war crimes and incited a racial hatred against the Japanese that at least approached the level of Jews in Germany, but you see a lot fewer people reacting to that with denial or deflection as opposed to merely mentioning that some people harbour sympathy for the Nazis.

I remember this exact same argument from when Company of Heroes 2 was announced and approaching release, people were complaining that it was "too cartoonish" compared to the first game which had comic-book broad lines on every character and most environment objects, and Hollywood SFX-style particles.

The game looks good. I don't think people even know what "cartoonish" means if this is what that looks like to them.

But it is a horrible idea and it would be a balancing nightmare. Not sure if anyone else played Battle for Middle-Earth II before the expansion introduced scaling costs for custom heroes, but before that, the game was amazing... if you were playing the AI. There was too much potential for abuse. There has been a long series of patches to curb abuse in this game, PLEASE don't give people the tools to implement even more.

If there's no adjustment to them beyond making the current Commandos with PIATs a separate squad, then what's the point to begin with?

I personally find Piat Commandos viable, if they start with 5 rifles and 2 piat that they can put way.

I also find 4 men commands with V-k/Thompson viable solution.

If one want to go"recon" type maybe one can experiment with "De Lisle carbine" (if that thing works) and add an ability that allow to snipe weapon team only.

Stealth-capable AT squads are a terrible idea with too much potential for abusive gameplay. Big no.