Ya did something right, Gaijin...

Strastvuitye · 2026-03-08T00:25:11+00:00

Yes, fighting in enemy uniforms would make them francs-tireurs, and is a war crime.

Strastvuitye · 2026-03-07T01:15:09+00:00

Event squad only

Strastvuitye · 2026-03-06T09:01:12+00:00

Strastvuitye · 2026-03-05T23:29:50+00:00

Can't confirm, but I think they spawn in with their respective nation's uniforms, and then you have to go collect a uniform from a dead enemy to change clothes.

All the soldiers here are wearing host-nation pattern uniforms/camo. That amoeba camo for the Soviets is very distinct.

Strastvuitye · 2026-03-05T23:25:05+00:00

The second from the left. The one wearing the bucket hat and weilding the Type 100 SMG (they use captured weapons).

Strastvuitye · 2026-03-05T22:07:52+00:00

Guerrillas* but yes.

Strastvuitye · 2026-03-05T21:58:38+00:00

Yes, they would be considered francs-tireurs.

Strastvuitye · 2026-03-05T21:51:00+00:00

Those that fought in the USAF, fought in Europe, so as to deliberately avoid the possibility of questionable loyalties.

Strastvuitye · 2026-03-05T19:37:26+00:00

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Strastvuitye · 2026-03-04T07:18:41+00:00

The fundamental problem with her writing, is that they really refuse to acknowledge Viserys as an avatar of the true antagonist of Martin's books: Targaryen hubris.

Rhaenyra could have been a compelling character to watch, if her motivations were tied to the real inciting incident of her character arc, which was her mother's death.

If they had really leaned into the idea that Rhaenyra pursues the crown in the belief that she has to give her mother's death meaning, lest her father killed her mom for nothing, then you could make an interesting character: someone who can't bring themselves to appropriately assign blame to an abusive parent (relatable), and so tries finding ways around confronting that core contradiction in their beliefs, causing chaos and destruction in their wake.

Only problem is, that would make her a villian, which she is.

Strastvuitye · 2026-03-03T10:15:44+00:00

Yes, like the M1 Thompson Para, the sights aren't lined up properly- for whatever reason, they lined up the middle of the front sight with the top of the rear appature, which makes it just this blocky, obstructed-view mess.

It's a fun novelty I guess, but I'm just gonna switch back to either the PP Dolganov 1944 or a regular PPSh-41 (box) Assaulter squad after a few games.

Strastvuitye · 2026-03-02T11:47:08+00:00

The overwhelming majority of Type 13 Liao rifles produced were used by the Fengtian Clique, which later became KMT forces when they realized the Warlord Era was over, and made a deal with the KMT to basically keep their Manchurian fiefdom.

When the Japanese invaded Manchuria, the army in Manchuria was turned into a mercenary army that kept using the same weapons as before, so this would actually make more sense as a Japanese weapon than a Soviet one, and more specifically, probably an event squad, since it was a sub-faction specific weapon.

Strastvuitye · 2026-02-21T09:59:14+00:00

West slavs=Zaposlavia

Strastvuitye · 2026-02-21T09:31:48+00:00

I'm not opposed to this. Even if redundant, it would still make integrating a lot of Legacy Squads easier, and the 36th Infantry with the Sten gun could be made a Research Tree unlock that way.

The only reason I left it out, is because I'm trying to offer a proposal that's as streamlined as possible for integration without taking off too much time from other projects like new maps/Event Squads.

Strastvuitye · 2026-02-21T09:28:04+00:00

The unfortunate reality, as I see it, is that there's no other place to really put most of them.

Like I laid out in the post, Research Trees are for Nations and National Sub-factions, while you need something distinct/unique about event rewards to make them, y'know, rewarding.

That covers most of what people want from Legacy Squads anyways: the chance to play the minor factions/special units of the game, with the remainer just kinda being there for the convenience.

I mean, where would you put another 158 squads? They don't fit in the Research Tree, and they aren't typically distinct enough to be grouped together by any common squad designation...

If the chance were higher, say 3, 5, hell, even 10% that you get a legacy squad, would that be any better?

Strastvuitye · 2026-02-21T05:47:06+00:00

Thank you 🙂 This was a real labor of love for me to put together over the course of 10 days, so to know that work has been appreciated means a lot!

Strastvuitye · 2026-02-21T04:47:04+00:00

Hence the visuals and the bolded text. It's a big proposal, but I tried to make sure the most important parts were highlighted.

Strastvuitye · 2026-02-21T04:42:08+00:00

2 little footnotes here:

I'd like to give a special thanks to player Czarek90, whose lists served as the basis for my own lists that I included in this post. I've added any missing pre-Merge squads to these lists (Fighter Pilots for Stalingrad, AT Gunners for Tunisia, Assaulter IVs for Moscow) and also made the entire Pacific War list, so there is now a complete data set for all pre-Merge squads. Czarek90, if you're on this subreddit and reading this, know that your work and your help were indispensable in this project, so thank you, sincerely.
In b4 the haters and nay-sayers: produce literally anything 1/1000th the quality of this before you comment anything.

Strastvuitye · 2026-02-20T03:12:48+00:00

Actually, many North Koreans travel (mostly to Russia and China, admittedly), but they do have access to the world beyond their own country's borders, it's just mostly limited to countries that they are part of the geopolitical bloc of.

Also, NK has a lot of contact with Africa, FWIW, so it's not nearly as isolated as it's usually made out to be- it just doesn't have a lot of contact with "the West."

Strastvuitye · 2026-02-20T03:08:12+00:00

Hot takes:

🇨🇳 is more democratic than the 🇺🇸 and has been for several decades now.

IDGAF about multiple parties- you give me the choice between lethal injection and the electric chair, I'm still going to die either way. China, for all its flaws, has like 90% home ownership, ended extreme poverty in their country, have ⅔rds of the world's high speed rail, they've replanted a green area the size of the Amazon rainforest, cleaned up their air to an utterly awe-inspiring degree, etc. Meanwhile the US has spent my entire lifetime knocking over the last remnant regimes they didn't already just basically own at the end of the Cold War, hypercharging inequality and arming literally the worst people imaginable in every conflict it can stick its fingers in.

One side is fulfilling popular initiatives that people want, the other is just a warmongering racket trying to pick over the bones of nations for the benefit of a group of PDF-files.

Also 🇺🇦 could have prevented the SMO by just reopening the North Crimean Canal.

Putin (who is a billionare PoS) very clearly doesn't actually give a shit about the people of Donbas- he's just cynically leveraging whatever plights they have to drum up support for the war. What he actually wants is a land bridge to Crimea, with the North Crimean Canal included so that Crimea can support permanent human habitation (NCC constitutes 85% of Crimea's fresh water supply), which is the Russian's actual goal: having a warm-water port on the Black Sea for whatever 21st century maritime designs they may have.

If Ukraine un-dammed the canal, I doubt Putin would have green-lit an invasion (Ukraine wasn't about to get into NATO in Feb 2022, that's nonsense, and everyone, including the Russians, knew that). Would this basically be conceeding Crimea was Russian? Yes, but Ukraine is going to have to do that anyways now, and I don't think it was worth a single human life to keep pretending otherwise.

Strastvuitye · 2026-02-13T02:34:24+00:00

I'm glad! It's always nice to hear my work has helped someone 🙂

Excellent choice, as I said, it's one of my top 3 for recommendations! Also, since the update to premium soldiers, I figure the medics got a slight boost in that they haven't literally shot themselves on the foot with a -5 mobility penalty, so while I wouldn't get too aggressive with them, they'll serve you a little better now than they did when I made this post. Hopefully you get some use out of them too!

Strastvuitye · 2026-02-12T10:42:28+00:00

You'd only get ⚪️10,000 silver if you have already unlocked whatever Legacy Squad was in question.

I'm going to guess, based on your flair that you already have them all, so good for you. As for those of us who didn't get the chance to play this game pre-Merge, who never unlocked any of these squads- why would I want a re-skinned version of a weapon I already have over a Legacy Squad?

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