I never held this position? I was pointing out that the Weimar government was planning for the future in ways that might be seen, rather correctly, as subversion of the soul of the law by dancing around the technicalities.
Yeah I saw the thread moved on after posting. Thanks for clarifying in your last posts. No offense intended by me.
LeYawn, the historical record shows this view of the Reichswehr to be somewhat untrue or at the very least misleading. Take their cooperation with the Soviet Union for instance. There were bases set up on Soviet soil to co-operatively research, develop, and apply the very weapon systems prohibited under the Versailles treaty which among others included tanks, aircraft, and chemical weapons.
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In effect the interwar government had unconsciously provided the neat starting point from which Hitler raised his awesome Wehrmacht.
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But whether the Nazis were to come to power or not it is clear that the Germans were very concerned with remaining militarily up-to-date and providing themselves with the knowledge and the means by which to outright break the treaty, if necessary, in the defense of the country.
Isn´t that what every souvereign country would do? Preparing to defense itself?
Yes the Weimarer Republic had such co-operations with the SU. But don´t refer from such facts to the conclusion that the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic could reveal the treaty of Versailles or could operate or stand against military operations of countries like Poland or France. This is in fact untrue.
Why did the Weimar Republic cooperate with the SU? Because it was the only possibility to gain experience in f. e. tank-warfare (with real Tanks, not bicycles with paper around like in Germany of those days) or testing new prototypes of airplanes (not glieders as back home) or chemnical weapons.
Don´t forget foreign policy target of the Weimar Republic was the acceptance of the treaty of Versailles not its Revision as it was under the Fashists in 1933.
Even if you put the Chi-Nu in I would love to see how fun it would be to play a faction were my heaviest tank is the equivalent of the worst medium in the game.
I know that issue. I feel the same as U.S. when the Kingtiger/Tiger hits the field. But I still deal with it.
Back to the Japs. Just compare two tanks just for fun:
JPType 3 Chi-Nu Medium TankJP vs USM4 Sherman Medium TankUS
...and let prototypes out of this.
Type 3 Chi-Nu Medium Tank
Produced: 1944-1945
Number bulit: 155
Crew: 5
Length: 5,64 m
Width: 2,41 m
Height: 2,68 m
Weight: 18,8 t
Armor: 20-50mm
Main Armament: 75 mm Type 3 Tank Gun
Secondary Armament: 7,7 Type 97 Machine Gun
Speed: 39 km/h
[b]VS.
M4 Sherman Medium Tank
Produced: 1941-1945
Number bulit: 49.234
Crew: 5
Length: 5,84 m
Width: 2,62 m
Height: 2,74 m
Weight: 30,3 t
Armor: 38-76mm
Main Armament: 75 mm M3 L/40 Tank Gun
Secondary Armament: 1x .50 cal Browning M2HB Machine Gun, 2x .30-06 Browning M1919A4 Machine Guns
Speed: 40 km/h
So... I don´t see any problems with japanese tanks for CoH2. All you need is good medium tank.
What warfare in reality happened or how many tanks a country produced throughout the war is as argument invalid, cause this is an RTS Video Game. There is no realism in this game. (Have some Obers? )
Edit:
These arguments are often used.
Japan doesn t fit in CoH2.
They have no interesting tanks or vehicles.
Japan would be cool but sorry they have no interesting stuff.It would be just boring compared to the other factions.
I can understand those concerns. But I think every new axis faction that is not germans-only is very interesting and fascinating. Furthermore those speculations give the game some deepth in which direction the franchise could go.
They were more concerned about the Poles, which is why a lot of the Freikorps were set up in the East to get around the Versailles restrictions.
This list of military strenght is nothing more than a propaganda paper created by german nationilist/right winged parties during the elections of the Reichstag with the intention to threaten the voters because of a possible german defenselessness ensuring voters will elect those parties and support their demands of a rearmed german military in the Republic of Weimar and a "possible" revision of the treaty of Versailles.
And Freikorps, in terms of armed paramilitary forces, did not exist anymore after the year 1920 in the Republic of Weimar. To hide a secret rearmement, in terms of training troops, which was against the treaties of Versailles/Trianon and St. Germain there were various strategies for the first german Democracy.
Three examples:
1. Conscription time was reduced so more soldiers could be trained but the troops limitation of 100.000 of the Reichswehr was not exeeded, because trained soldiers joined civil-life again.
2. German factories still produced submarines, but now for foreign clients until 1935. (Knowledge and Know-how was still there and was even improved.)
3. Military education and training of pilots was forbidden. So across the country gliding schools and clubs were established where new pilots were schooled and educated. Many pilots of the first days of the Luftwaffe gained experience with flying airplanes for civil airlines such as the german "Lufthansa" or airlines from other countries.
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Thanks for clarifying in your last posts. No offense intended by me. 
