u/I-HaveAReasonToo

Its weird. As Scottish was added back in v0.15, which to this day, can only be accessed through regiment packs.

In that mindset, you'd think this will be the case for future regiment packs containing exclusive accent or dialect regiments to make them more unique. Yet in v0.17, the UK got a free Irish regiment, this being the 87th Regiment of Foot.

Whic begs the question: Should there also be a free Scottish regiment? and if so, what one?

For me personally, I'd like to see the 1st Regiment of Foot / Royal Scots, as their uniforms are similar to the rest of the free regiments without being too exotic to the degree of becoming a premium regiment.

I'm actually tempted to say I think this will be overpowered.

A little backstory for those who are unaware; There is one regiment that was intended to be added in the new update, this being the Marine-Bataillonen, but was ultimately scrapped.

I don't know the exact reason behind it's removal, but going from Weltseele: The original Marine-Regiment was merged on the 1st January of 1811 into forming the Kiøbenhavns Infanterie-Regiment (the one we see in-game), which was divided into 3 bataillions, with the first being the Marine-Bataillion.

I think it could have been removed due to officers not having the same uniform as the rest of the batallion, as they disbanded the previous Marine-Regiment officer outfits on the 1st January of 1812, months before the main events of the game takes place.

HOWEVER, there's also additional info that saids the rest of the batallion kept their old uniforms for the next 3 years after the Marine-Regiment gets disbanded, which, taking to account takes place on the 1st January of 1811, would make them see use up until 1814.

I don't know how date-specific the devs want to go into depth with uniforms. In theory, they could add anything as long as its in the 1812 to 1815 timeframe. There's also probably a better reason behind it's removal other than lacking unique Officer uniforms, but hey, you never truly know, do you?

https://weltseele.miraheze.org/wiki/Marin-Regimentet_(Denmark)
"As soldiers of the Marine-Bataillonen (the Marine Battalion) of the Kiøbenhavns Infanterie-Regiment, had just received new uniforms in 1810. They would keep their old uniform with white button holes and anchor buttons for the next three years after the disbandment of the Marine Regiment. According to royal resolution of 28 October 1810, officers of the marine regiment, which was to be merged with the Copenhagen Infantry regiment were allowed to wear their old uniforms until 1 January 1812."

I don't know, I just want a outfit with the anchor buttons man, they look so good.

This was originally something I edited into trivia in the unofficial G&B, but I also wanted to share it here for being a neat detail.

As you may know by now, Denmark-Norway got alot of new regiments, which a decent chunk of them being Norwegian.

You can play as all of these regiments no matter the map, so Varde, Copenhagen and Moss, but what I find cool is that they switch places on the selection menu DEPENDING on the map.

For example:

During Vardøhus, the regiment presented leftmost in the selection screen is the Vardøhus Garnisons-Compagnie, which, you know, fits, cause we're playing Vardøhus. This is then followed by the Norwegian regiments, and then the Danish ones.

During Copenhagen, however, the regiment presented leftmost is Kiøbenhavns Infanterie-Regiment, which, you know, also fits because they're stationed in Copenhagen. This is then followed by the Danish regiments, and then the Norwegians.

And finally, during Moss, the regiment presented leftmost is the... Oplandske Gevorbne Infanterie-Regiment? There might be lore explanation to this, is just that the region of Oppland is set further up north from where Moss takes place. This is then followed by the other Norwegian regiments again, and then the Danish ones.

All of this... And there's one exception: The Kongelige Artillerie-Corps, which is always set to the furthest right of the selection menu no matter the map.

I think the reason behind this is that I believe the real-life Kongelige Artillerie-Corps was multi-ethnic, so not only did it include Danes & Norwegians, but also soldiers from Holstein and was divided into brigades of the three (I go by this website btw I heard its good).

Despite this, the regiment in-game speaks exclusively Danish and is supposedly the Danish brigade due to the Officer having a more pink-ish coat, even.. though.. the Danish brigade would go on to be renamed to the 1. Artillerie-Regiment in 1812, but I digress.

Edit: Shit changed!!1! The line that supposedly claimed the Danish Brigade was changed to 1 Artillerie-Regiment was removed, so its likely inaccurate.

Its still weird why the Kongelige Artillerie-Corps isn't grouped together with the other Danish regiments now that it IS the Danish brigade, but I don't know.

So, yeah, thats bout it.

For me personally, I'd either change the name to Sailor or Seafarer for the following reasons:

-I once saw someone who refused to call Seaman by it's name and instead referred to it by "Navyman", and I likely think it's because saying Seaman or especially SeaMEN can make you think of the thing used for pregnancy if you have a perverted mind.

-To be brutally honest, I have a tendency to refer to roles with gender-specific names, like a policeman, for non-binary names like police officer. I just like when things refer to larger groups of people rather than a specific gender. This doesn't really affect the game that much, but hey, next time you meet a girl playing G&B, you can safely say "She's playing as a Sailor/Seafarer" rather than "She's playing as a Seaman"(Again, just my preferences).

-Apparently, there are further distinctions between the two names and Seaman.

Doing a quick search on wikipedia: "In a navy, there may be further distinctions: sailor may refer to any member of the navy even if they are based on land, while seaman may refer to a specific enlisted rank." coming from this source about sailors.

Also, supposedly, Seafarer can refer to anyone working abroad a marine vessel, so not only Seamen (there it is again...) but also naval officers and so on, and given how the Seaman is able to use a pistol (that being the Navy Pistol), it could fit more Seaman's large weapon variety.

Remember, this is a COMPLETELY pointless change that serves zero gameplay-purposes, but I still thought it'll be fun to discuss about.

And, yeah, I'm gonna use the axe gun for this case, despite being a often hated suggestion, but let me explain:

G&B has alot of different types of weapons. Some weapons encourage a specific playstyle, like the Carbine, Navy Pistol & Pickaxe encouraging a aggressive playstyle, the Spade and Spontoon encouraging a defensive playstyle, or the Nock Gun or Rifle creating a more precise/backline playstyle.

Alongside this, there are also weapons in the game that acts as a compromise between 2 selective options, for example the Heavy Sabre, being a middle ground between the Regular Sabre and the Lance, or the Boarding Axe, being a middle ground between the Hand Axe and a high-precision melee weapon like the Musket's Bayonet.

However, this direction does not last forever, as with each new addition or compromise, it becomes harder and harder to add something unique afterwards, which is a problem the developers are gonna face in the future.

Which raises the question: Do you think the developers should add more obscure or exotic weapons to the arsenal in the future just for fun?

For me personally, I'd love to play with something like the axe gun shown in the image here just because of how exotic it is. Sure, it may not be possible to balance out as a effective sidegrade, but honestly, that doesn't matter to me that much, I'd still play with it just because I think it's a dope. It's a bit similar to 2fore2's thoughts on the Hand Mortar, where even though he thinks its objectively worse than the rest of the Seaman's weapons, its still fun to play with.

That being said, I do also think the developers should always priortise ideas (for weapons) that could be worked into a specific playstyle or as a good compromise between two options, as that creates both a fun and well-balanced weapon, but again, you have to realise they can't do this for forever, and each time they do it becomes harder to do it again.

You could also take this mindset to the extreme and say we could add stuff like the double-barreled nock gun, duckfoot pistol, or even the congreve rocket launcher, and, yeah, my immersion will probably break a little seeing someone holding a freaking rocket launcher in game, but it varies from people to people, as all of these things did exist back in the Napoleonic Wars.

Overall, this comes down to the developer's choice on what to do. I honestly just thought this was a interesting question to bring up because we all play G&B to have fun, its just dependent on what we find fun. I almost feel like I should insert that one clip of Gabe Newell being interviewed talking about the subject of 'fun'.

(Also, I know most of the time, people who suggest the axe gun suggest the Polish model, which was supposedly poorly designed, but I'm using a Danish-Swedish model of the gun that came from a suggestion from the Discord that had reliable sources, with even one source claiming the existence of one cap lock model.)

trust

Here's mine:

"You are my destroyer." - Not based off any historical quotes, but it comes from a song called "Destroyer" by Of Monsters And Men. I just think it fits the poetic setting.

"The body's will to live is stronger than the mind's." - I think this came off from a letsplay of JackSepticEye I watched where he played a depressive game about suicide, where he talks about reading stories on Reddit about people who tried to take their own lives and happy they never went through with it, and said something similar to what I interpreted here.

"We will fight until it's no longer our fault." - Probably the weakest of the three, and the only one I made up entirely on my own. I interpret it being doing your absolute best and still falling in the end, and that you have no regrets when you just lay there and die.

Like FINALLY, we got a new nation in the form of Revolutionary Serbia! Getting to play as the National Guard and as the Milita has been a real treat alongside their callouts; Its nice to see more nations having meaner or more stubborn callouts towards the zombies; I especially like their tackle voicelines when getting tackled by a runner and they just go "GET THE HELL OFF OF ME!" or "GET OFF OF ME THIS INSTANCE!" rather than yelling for help unlike most nations in the game.

By far my favourite thing about this map is that not only do we fight the Blight, but the Ottomans as well as they come at you with muskets, pistols, rifles, blunderbusses, hand axes, lances, and so much more! Its a nice change of pace of only having to fight the Blight. AND THEY'RE ADVANCED AI CAPABLE OF BLOCKING, STRIFING, CHARGING, MAN! They're fun to fight against.

I love the interactions between the Serbs, especially during the part where a few Serbian NPCs appear on the rooftops during the city, firing down and killing the remaining Ottomans for us, and one yelling "For Serbia!" and one of the player characters replying with "Brothers! Come! We must head to the Belgrade Fortress immediately!" and the NPC replying back with "You come up to us! We have found a shortcut!" and then when we head up to them, they turn out to be respawned players (thought its ironic when no one has died and then theres just no one up there).

And finally... There's the ending... where, we, the Serbians, overtake the Belgrade Fortress from the Ottomans and get overwhelmed at first, until the arrival of Russian NPC troops and the last respawn point being the Russians coming to help us, coming to help the Serbs and clear out the fort, all while having the Song "Marche slav, Op 31" by Tchaikovsky play during the whole finale and with how it synergizes with the Russian NPCs coming in, standing in a line formation, and firing the muskets one by one right after each other (idk if this was actually a practice during the Napoleonic Wars; I just thought it'll add to the finale) down onto the Ottomans, and the finale objective prom: "Push back the Ottomans one last time." and having player Serbian officers charge at that prom is classy.

Overall, by far my favourite objective map yet; Its large, its intense, and it. Is. Fun.

(If it wasn't obvious by the meme tag, this was inspired by the other persons post about Warsaw being too difficult and then just showing the fake screenshot of "Moscow", with it actually being Copenhagen. This is just something I've gone pondering about; How a map in Belgrade would be executed, thought I'm setting my expectations way too high.).

From what I know, it was a squadron unit that was apart of their hussar regiment, and consisted of "Bosniaks" (Balkan irregular cavalry) from the Balkans.

I think it would be cool if they had the same logic as the Danske Landeværn and appeared in the game speaking either Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian or Monetenegrin (although these languages are very similar from what I know from Geography Now!, so maybe only one should be chosen.)

The other two are same-wise, with the only difference being before and after Napoleon fell.

Fez seems he wants to aim for Friday next week, but that might not be the case.

God, my first comment was shit.

In other words, he stated he didn't know if it'll be ready on Friday next week, which seems to be the original idea. However, with the Norwegian callouts thing, it might get delayed.

For new regiments in the Danish side of things, there's the:

-2det Jydske Infanterie-Regiment
-Kongelige Artillerie-Corps
-Matros-Compagniet (I only found out they were Danish afterwards)

Alongside the previous revamped Danish regiments, including the Oldenborske Infanterie-Regiment, Københavns Infanterie-Regiment, Kongens Livjæger Korps, and the Danske Landeværn.

For the NORWEGIAN side of things, there's the:

-1ste Nordenheldske Skieløber-Bataillon
-Oplandske Gevorbne Infanterie-Regiment
-Bergenhusiske Infanterie-Regiment
-1ste Trondhiemske Infanterie-Regiment

This means that all of the regiments I've just mentioned will receive Norwegian callouts in the future!

Then there are some debatable ones:

-Kystmilicien (It's VERY likely this is also a Norwegian regiment)
-Marine-Bataillionen (This regiment or batallion consisted almost exclusively of Germans from what I've skimmed over)

Overall, including the 4 Danish regiments that wasn't removed, and excluding map-exclusive regiments (I'm thinking of the Moss Jernverks Betjente), theres a total of:

-7 Danish regiments (5 if we exclude the regiment-pack regiments)
-4 Norwegian regiments
-2 debatable ones

If we include Kystmilicien as a Norwegian regiment, then that makes 5 Norwegian regiments, and if we include Moss Jernverks Betjente as well, then that makes 6.

And then there's the Marine-Batallion which is debatable due to being German.

There's almost more Norwegian regiments than there are Danish ones, which would make sense lore-wise, now that Denmark has fallen.

Play Combat Initiation instead, It's far better.