Specialized Unit Roles Thread - Totaler Krieg: 1939-45 mod for Battle of Empires : 1914-1918

Hello Sturm. I am very interested your work for totaler krieg and I am anticipating it's release within the next few months. A minor suggestion of mine is to add specialized roles for infantry and certain vehicles. There are already many specialized roles (AT infantry, Sniper, Sappers) but one thing that I notice an absence of is specialized reconnaissance units. I realize that the officer for each nations carries a pair of binoculars but it is not realistic in the fact that almost all nations had specialized or ad-hoc recon forces. For example, Germany could get Kradschützentruppe(Motorcycle Infantry) and foot based recon teams. These recon teams would be fire team sized (3-5men) And include a Leader with binoculars, and then several riflemen or submachine gunners. There would be no MG as the squad would need to be mobile and not be hampered by a machine gunner. The troops would be harder to spot when concealed and carry camo bags so that they can conceal themselves if they are in the open. Although Recon squadrons carried at guns and machine guns all recon would be done on the FT/squad level and therefore not be present. This is not something that would make or break the game for me but units that have better line of sight than standard ones make sense as WWII was when modern reconnaissance began. It is up to you if you want to add this feature or not but please do not consider yourself obligated to do so you can wait until version 2.5 for all I care. I just want the most realistic experience possible and will have fun with TK no matter what decison you make.

That's a very good suggestion Sirlzzy, I will definitely think about fleshing out the role of the recon troops further in TK. Perhaps you could elaborate more on the specific load outs of the various squads for say, a German Reconnaissance Aufklaer troop, and a British and Soviet equivalent.

Sturm.