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Re: Suggested faction unit rosters list (My ideas)!
« Reply #15 on: February 27, 2014, 08:54:03 pm »
Give the Germans Uhlans, make the Commonwealth's sharpshooters be regular Brits instead of Ghurkas, and I agree with this unit list 100%.
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Re: Suggested faction unit rosters list (My ideas)!
« Reply #16 on: February 27, 2014, 09:24:32 pm »
We need UK to have an Arabic unit so we can do Lawrence of Arabia :P
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Re: Suggested faction unit rosters list (My ideas)!
« Reply #17 on: February 27, 2014, 09:55:43 pm »
We need UK to have an Arabic unit so we can do Lawrence of Arabia :P

Maybe if we ever get a Middle Eastern Front update.
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Re: Suggested faction unit rosters list (My ideas)!
« Reply #18 on: February 28, 2014, 03:29:23 am »
I made some changes. One of my gripes with the way we select units currently isthat the tabs are based on specific kinds of units. I would much rather have Page 1/2/3 than Infantry/Support/Specialists. This way, we can have more infantry troops, more cavalry troops, more colonial troops, etc.

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Re: Suggested faction unit rosters list (My ideas)!
« Reply #19 on: February 28, 2014, 03:34:12 pm »
Will post some stuff about Russians when i'll get to my computer later.

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Re: Suggested faction unit rosters list (My ideas)!
« Reply #20 on: February 28, 2014, 03:38:58 pm »
I would love to see the Gordon Highlanders as the highland infantry...  ;D

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Re: Suggested faction unit rosters list (My ideas)!
« Reply #21 on: February 28, 2014, 06:12:51 pm »
Russian Imperial Army

Infantry:
Regulyarnaya Pehota (Regular Infantry)
Serbskiy Korpus (Serbian Infantry)
Legion Puławski (Polish Infantry)
Plastuni (Cossack Infantry)
Strelki (Mountain Infantry/Light Infantry)
Reservisty/Opolchenie (Irregular Infantry(

Support:
Polevaya Battareya (Field battery)
Raschet Tyazhelogo Pulemeta (Heavy MG Crew)
Draguni (Dragoons)
Kozaki (Cossacks)

Special:
Saperi (Enginners/Sappers)
Polevoy Sanitar (Medic)
Morskay Pehota (Marines)
Snaiper (Sniper)
General

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Re: Suggested faction unit rosters list (My ideas)!
« Reply #22 on: March 01, 2014, 11:51:07 pm »
The german standard infantry would be called "Infanterie". "Landser" is soldier slang and in WW1 not common, it's best known and common later in WW2 (see Landser / german Wikipedia).
But there was no "common" infantry, all infantry regiments were dedicated to a german state, so the standard infantry would be for example a "Preußische Infanterie". And all other additional infantry should be dedicated to the next biggest and important states (behind Prussia) in the German Empire: 1. Bavaria, 2. Saxony, 3. Württemberg, 4. Baden, 5. Hessen etc (according to inhabitants in 1914). Of course it would make sense when the "Scharfschützen" would be a Bavarian unit and not some Prussians (see: Alpenkorps / english Wikipedia).

It looks cool to have more than one standard Infantry, but according to gamplay it would make for Germany no really sense, because in 1916 all common german infantry had the same uniform colored in "Feldgrau" (field grey / see this bavarian infantry soldier on the right and these prussian infantry guys) and the "Stahlhelm" (see Stahlhelm / english Wikipedia) as equipment, there would be no visual difference between them. Maybe there could be still one infantry unit with a "Pickelhaube" (see Pickelhaube / english Wikipedia). Just to represent this nice piece of equipment what was still in use until 1916. And / or with the german field cap "Krätzchen" (see Krätzchen / german Wikipedia). Maybe as equipment of the smaller (and less wealthy) states in the German Empire, like Saxony or Baden (sorry to those german people, don't want to insult you  ;D ). This would make sense to distinguish regiments better in any event. Here this would make sense! :)

But "Alpenjäger" is just the designation for a division, not for a single unit. This would be simply called "Jäger", not with any special regional addition.


Just some examples HOW it could be (designated better):

Preußische Infanterie (Prussian Infantry) (with Stahlhelm)

Sächsische Infanterie (Saxon Infantry) (with Pickelhaube / just to show the field coating, but later ones had no big red regiment numbers on it any more ;D )

Württembergische Reserve-Infanterie (Wurttembergian reserve Infantry) (with Krätzchen / ugh, long name, lol. just as example)

Bayrische Jäger (Snipers)

Sturmtruppen (Assault Infantry)

Marine-Infanterie (Naval Infantry)

e.t.c
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Re: Suggested faction unit rosters list (My ideas)!
« Reply #23 on: March 02, 2014, 12:47:05 am »
Bayrische Jägers shouldn't be snipers. Snipers were just marksmen within companies, not a large designated formation.


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Re: Suggested faction unit rosters list (My ideas)!
« Reply #24 on: March 02, 2014, 03:12:35 am »
"Jäger" or "Schütze" was the rank designation for a common soldier of a Jäger-Bataillon. But "Schütze" as well for MG companies and MG cyclist companies. There was no special designation for snipers according to the german "Interessen- und Arbeitsgemeinschaft Weltkrieg 1914-1918" (Association World War 1914-1918).

link (in german, sorry)



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Re: Suggested faction unit rosters list (My ideas)!
« Reply #25 on: March 02, 2014, 03:43:54 am »
Since snipers in the German army were attached to infantry companies, we can just change the name of snipers to Kompanie-Scharfschuetze. This way, the name respects what they actually were; Attached snipers. We can also remove the sniper in the specialist tree, put it under the regular infantry, then use that slot for something else.
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Re: Suggested faction unit rosters list (My ideas)!
« Reply #26 on: March 02, 2014, 12:19:52 pm »
Snipers attached to the regular infantry tabs would make sense, of course.

Petschie, what do you say to the rest of my suggestions?



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Re: Suggested faction unit rosters list (My ideas)!
« Reply #27 on: March 02, 2014, 01:49:15 pm »
Gurkha's are Nepalese, not Indian.

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Re: Suggested faction unit rosters list (My ideas)!
« Reply #28 on: March 02, 2014, 01:53:44 pm »
Snipers attached to the regular infantry tabs would make sense, of course.

Petschie, what do you say to the rest of my suggestions?

It's good. I know there were no real visual differences between the troops, but for the sake of there being more than just one basic troop, we have the multiple state troops. I think Bavarian reservists would be better than Wurttembergers, for reasons we all should know.

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Re: Suggested faction unit rosters list (My ideas)!
« Reply #29 on: March 03, 2014, 04:32:23 pm »
I thought the Gurkhas carried rifles and a LMG, or some did