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You should buy Men of War series and try the Japanese then. It's great fun, but it's pretty much stretching the fantasy stuff.
Much of the Japanese equipment park are prototypes.
Yes Men of War, very clearly shows that the Japanese faction very viable. This is a very interesting and fun game, but its outdated and buggy engine spoils all.
in COH2 recruited an army of rare techniques.
Elephants was released 90 pieces, 39 pieces were destroyed, in the battle of Kursk, the Red Army captured 10 pieces, where my elephant? Why can not I call an army of elephants playing in the USSR?
So that Japan can do.
engineers now look like a bunch of homeless people.
Remake skins: give them a helmet and green "amoeba", give an improvement on 4 PPS - 43 cost 80 ammo (USSR should go to shock troops, this is their only normal AI unit)
Remove partisans - the worst unit of the Red Army, and with the imminent arrival of the German paratroopers, they have nothing to do in the game. Need a normal sabotage unit
Replaced by saboteurs NKVD:
5 people - 3 PPSh-41, 2 AVT-40 (shoot bursts of 3 shots), the capacity: to put explosives in the house / point, rifle antitank grenade Serdyuk, dressed in Gilly made invisible under cover.
AT saboteurs NKVD:
5 people - 3 Mosin rifle, 2 Bazooka, capacity: rifle antitank grenade Serdyuk, dressed in Gilly made invisible under cover
Rename conscripts to riflemen, multiplayer action takes place in 1944-1945, recruits have poured into the veterans division.
give them a random camouflage: no / pants / jacket / full set
when the tanks T-34-76/T-34-85/KV-1 second level vet - they get shields.
That's a bit much. Japenese land forces where much better then WW1. It's just that their land forces production never really exceeded what the allies had in 1942. Their weapon development was compararable to allies too maybe a bit worse. Their biggest problem was more that none of those prototypes could be built do to lack of resources and what was was spent on naval and air vehicles.
To be honest, a lot of WW2 propaganda still effects a lot of peoples opinion of the Japenese army of WW2 at the time leading lots of people to believe they were more inferior then they were. The Japenese were still very advanced compared to other nations at the time other then germans and the big 3 allies.
What makes Japan similar to Oberkommando. A lot of infantry from the cannon fodder - infantrymen to elite - paratroopers and marines,cheap tanks and very expensive prototypes. But Relic states that Japan can not do.
They should have an 'Axis' commander who isn't German and who comprises of Italian, Romanian, Hungarian and Balkan levies. It would be light raiding faction with a focus on infantry. Heavy stuff would be German call-ins I would imagine.
At the end of each game they could get marched off to a gulag or a uranium mine for backing the wrong side.
Another not-very-politically correct but cool faction would be 'Foreign Volunteer Legions' i.e. the hordes of non-Germans or ethnic Germans who joined the SS.
Considering that 60% of people in the SS were not Germans, can make such a fraction, but 3 Germans fraction? this is overkill
Soviets have numerous important vehicles remaining, and there is no way to add them on to the current faction. I, myself, was imagining something of a Guards division where it isnt about quantity, it is about the soviet soldiers and equipment that functioned best. Basically your suggestion.
There are still a lot of things that can be used for a new faction:
scouts, marines, paratroopers
T-34 with additional armor, T-34-57, SU-76i, BT-7A
Also found the British equivalent (in the center).
The armor protection for the torso adopted in 1942 is defensive armament was little known, even though it offers good protection against relatively slow-moving damaging elements, such fragments. Such vests got some soldiers 1st Airborne Division, participating in Operation "Market" in the Netherlands in September 1944
Looks like this engineer wearing
Beginning in 1943 , the crews of strategic bombers began receiving protection from shrapnel, flak vests special . The so-called flak suit was developed in October 1942, Brigadier General Grow in cooperation with " Vilkinsonsvord ."
It was a plate of manganese steel , which is not penetrated by a bullet .45 at close range. Innovation immediately received recognition from the bomber crews and helped to significantly reduce the loss of flight crews. Body armor weighed about 9 kg , but that did not stop pilots , and by 1944 only in the 8th Air Force had about 13,500 vests .
In May 1942, the Caucasus began its formation paratrooper company Air Force Black Sea Fleet in 160 people. Company commander was appointed Captain Orlov and his deputy for political affairs became senior political D.I.Deryabin, assistant Orlov was appointed one of the oldest Soviet paratroopers
- Head of the parachute landing Service 40th Regiment Captain A.P.Desyatnikov.