Yugoslavian,Asian and other Balkan Infantry only small armor support factions

[I WUB PUGS]

Wargame got out of hand with unicorns trying to make non-competitive nation's competitive. Now you have this weird meta where a Czechoslovakian-Yugoslavian deck vs Isreal fighting in Korea is like 80% of the lobbies. And it's been something equally stupid for years. The Eurocorps vs Non-Soviet Warsaw Pact was just as bad. Landjut and SOVKOR made me have to get chemo treatments.

It's just so dumb, and I have been berated to no end on Reddit for suggesting that coalitions and open decks should be banned for all time. But I'm one of those weirdos that doesn't min-max and fap over spreadsheets. I will gladly play French Marine or Czech Armored and just deal with the gaps.

Airland Battle had the nationalism problem. I think "BRITISH SEAD" was maybe the worst offender.

I'm really glad they've gone with historical divisions so we can avoid the whole "We as a faction need ___________ to be competitive". Now they can just point to an order of battle and tell people to go pound sand.

 

[Andyana]

Glad to see it's not only me that disliked Wargame's mad fantasy line-ups. I too dream of the day when we'll see actual ToEs of 1980s kit being used on the battlefield!
But yeah, with the proposed historical focus, one of my major gripes about Wargame has been fixed. Now, they just have to do a good, exciting campaign with cool scenarios and make it available for co-op...

 

[HrcAk47]

Well, there was some involvement of Yugoslavs in occupied France... just not in Normandy, and not in 1944. I am talking about the Villefranche-de-Rouergue uprising of 1943.

At any rate, I am mostly interested in seeing this new deck assembly method - using the divisional approach is highly exciting! If it turns out to be good, it could be the cornerstone of a new Cold war game, and everybody could benefit from that.

 

[mitchverr]

Airland Battle had the nationalism problem. I think "BRITISH SEAD" was maybe the worst offender.

I'm really glad they've gone with historical divisions so we can avoid the whole "We as a faction need ___________ to be competitive". Now they can just point to an order of battle and tell people to go pound sand.

2 Problems here, that being that they kind of completely negate each other.

1) The SEAD thing wasnt nationalism, it arguably was something that was needed for that nation, all others with SEAD had theirs but the UK, kind of a thing on balance imho.
2) That wont stop people asking for x if x is possibly used as an attached company or was part of the divisional OOB, just like how SEAD arguably would be a part of any cold war OOB of support assets given how vital it is to not have your planes shot in the face

Just thought i would say that

 

[I WUB PUGS]

Brits got MANPADS, French got SEAD..... FLAVOR. And you could just go open blue if you wanted to get both.

It was utterly nonsensical for the amount of moaning that was done over it. It was basically all over a plane having the wrong damn roundel.

And no, I don't see how Eugen can get into the same trouble if they're sticking to historical OOB's that they can point to and tell people to suck it up. The moment they start giving out unicorns or units that didn't deploy then they've opened the same pandora's box that made the forums during ALB a total dumpster fire and why RD is a bit of a joke as far as realistic capabilities for the various nations is concerned.