What kind of help would a new reg even need though? Nobody can magically pull more active members out of their hat.
The uphill struggle is just getting steeper and steeper. Its easier to make a name out of yourself both skill wise and leadership wise if you just join one of the larger regiments at this point purely cos its getting increasingly difficult to actually recruit members if you start off a regiment with a small name. Especially cos the cooler more innovative events that are on offer are few and far between often requiring regiments to be well known and bigger (i.e 20+ for line regiments)
If you start off a fresh regiment that is specialist based it'd be even harder - the majority of top tier events have HUGE waiting lists for these types of units and there aren't even enough Linebattles going round (roughly 2 full events for weekdays and maybe 3 on weekends) to accommodate your specialist regiment, it'll be impossible to grabfor these specialists slots when you're competing against large regiments that'll bring a line too to secure that slot. As a small new line regiment you'd just get stuck in the same old boring events with heaps of specialist units just using and abusing you - something that we've all played repetitively for too many years, with a small of intake of recruits you could get on a good day (and even smaller retention rate - especially now) stagnation and repetitiveness is a recipe for disaster.
Kinda sad because theres no decent mid-low tier EU regiment that is positioning itself to be the dark horse of NW for 2021 that could both really introduce more players and get the purely casual players much more involved, but I guess if there is a demand something will always spring up, question is - is there even enough demand anymore?
Just came back to this thread and read this response. All this said here is entirely true. At the moment most people are forced to join a already existing regiment to get anywhere in the community. A large amount of regiments which turn from casual to competitive fail and turn back to casual. Mainly because it is so difficult to compete with a lot of the competitive regiments currently around. I sometimes fear the EU side of NW is becoming so much like the NA side. All you see are the same players winning tournaments. the same regiments on top. No change, even tho change is needed for an interesting, competitive and fluid environment.
A lot of new regiments also find it hard, as maskman pointed, to find events to go too where they can play anything but line inf. Most of the time these new regiments might have 8 guys. Where as an already established regiment could have 20. This massive attendance difference promotes small regiments to disband in order to join a larger regiment. Just so they can compete with numbers.
Kinda sad because theres no decent mid-low tier EU regiment that is positioning itself to be the dark horse of NW for 2021 that could both really introduce more players and get the purely casual players much more involved, but I guess if there is a demand something will always spring up, question is - is there even enough demand anymore?
There are a small number of regiments that I’ve seen come very far from where they once where at the start of the year. 55th for example, 17pp and FKG just to name a few. But the fact is that such things are rare, and I know for a fact that regiments at lower tier are met with much resistance in the ways of logistics and scrutiny from the community. E.G. finding private servers to do 1v1’s or GF’s on or just general bad attitude that makes it unfunny to pay with. Many smaller regiments are also dependant on large casual events as they don’t have there own servers they can use. That’s something we could look into I guess.
Maybe someone rather influential in the community could look into setting up some sort of private competitive league where smaller and mid tier regiments fight it out. Hosting a server so they won’t have too. I guess more smaller regiments would apply for this as they wouldn’t be against the highest tier regiments and so would actually have a chance to win. This could also motivate improvement in leadership and skill in smaller regiments. This could also help bring an influx of casual players to the competitive side of the community, something I feel is greatly needed.
All in all I feel there is more we can do as a community, we just need someone with established contacts and experience to set up something like this. I’d be up for helping to run anything like what I’ve stated above.
