The first prototype was done in January, the last was done in May.
Doesn't change the fact that it was not used
But we don't. They have already taken a big bold step away from a linear, historically faithful campaign. They want to give players the option to wage the war to their liking, and even in the most liberal levels of feedback review they won't gut the freestanding campaign in lieu of a linear one now. The work has been done.
We have a campaign where we get to make our own decisions on the method and direction of the war.
Well. It is not like we are able to invade in Norther Italy instead of in the South but I see your point. But while it is obvious that this Map won't be scrapped it is also not finished and "subject to change"TM ... so maybe we will get a slighlty more historically faithful campaign (which I and a lot of other people are hoping for)but yea ... rather unlikely
But still. Attacking place X before place Y might be historical inaccurate too but does it really mean that we also gotta bring Tanks into the game which never saw service? Red Orchestra 2 for instance had the option to do something similar in Muliplayer (and Singeplayer too iirc) but still they tried their best to only have Weapons in the Game that fit the setting and were historically accurate (yes ... the had a Mkb 42 in Stalingrad (which a lot of people were mad about) but they at least tried to justify this by showing some pictures which allegedly showed a Mkb 42 being used in Stalingrad)
Also the Campaign starts in late 1943. One would really have to fuck up a lot for early 1945 tanks to appear.
In this context, the Black Prince makes perfect sense
It doesn't. BP was also not used because there were other, better tanks, that got the job done way better.
The campaign is alternate history. That's what we got.
Which is sad considering that lelic wrote the following:
Historical accuracy is important to our team
You're welcome to this opinion, but the format of the campaign makes such restrictions entirely arbitraty.
Don't use 'em if you don't want to. But Relic are letting people run the campaign in the manner they choose. So... others will disagree. And they will use them.
So the same would apply for Maus tanks being available for DAK in a possible German single player campaign? Don't use it if you don't like it?
Also I would feel slightly more open towars BP being a thing in SP as a "easteregg" (for instance after 100 in game days) if I had 101% confirmation that it won't be a thing in Multiplayer
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