SE units and Heroes

[heervandering]

Will ther be SE units and real heroes in the game like Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Helmut Lent, Albert Kerscher like in PzC1?

[dlgusdnrx]

I would like to play with them too!! please devs add a lot of SE units and Heroes...

[rudankort]

No, SE units are not in the game. I always felt that it was a rather clunky feature which interfered with the natural progression of your core, and it was intended primarily as an excuse to have SS units in the game (which we had to rename to SE anyway). In Panzer Corps 2, you can assign the same "SE" camouflage to any unit, there are heroes which reduce slots taken by a unit to zero, and there are all kinds of ways to make your favorite units extra-special (heroes, medals, overstrength, prototypes), so I felt that SE units were redundant. You can make any unit in your core "SE".

As for real heroes, not in the vanilla campaign, but in the future content I'm 99% sure they will appear. This is always up to the designer of a specific campaign. Vanilla campaign has been designed to provide lots of variety, and this is true for heroes as well: in every playthrough you will have different heroes with different and not necessarily very historic abilities. But, just as it happened in Panzer Corps, vanilla campaign will likely remain one of its kind, while the others will take a very different approach to design.

[heervandering]

OK, thanks Rudankort for the information!

[tkbb_]

Hi, just want to add i liked heroes in PzC1 but there where just too many in the Grand Campaign. So many that by mid game you would rarely have an incentive to use your old starting 'buddies' and build your own superstars especially in the infantry and fighter plane categories.

I did modify the GC myselves with the editor and removed 9 of those heroes from the core and it was a better gaming experience imo. Less is more. ;)

Regards

[Green Knight]

Originally posted by tkbb_:

Hi, just want to add i liked heroes in PzC1 but there where just too many in the Grand Campaign. So many that by mid game you would rarely have an incentive to use your old starting 'buddies' and build your own superstars especially in the infantry and fighter plane categories.

I did modify the GC myselves with the editor and removed 9 of those heroes from the core and it was a better gaming experience imo. Less is more. ;)

Regards

Agreed. Too many, too good.

[Warriordude]

What is story with not having ss units in game, is it because it offends people. There were ss units in real life battles, there were considered the elite. I think if they offend people maybe they just should just have named units like Landeistart or das reich I probably spelled wrong. I was wondering there elite paratroopers in this game. I really haven't been watching playthroughs yet.

[Green Knight]

Originally posted by Warriordude:

What is story with not having ss units in game, is it because it offends people. There were ss units in real life battles, there were considered the elite. I think if they offend people maybe they just should just have named units like Landeistart or das reich I probably spelled wrong. I was wondering there elite paratroopers in this game. I really haven't been watching playthroughs yet.

You can rename your units, give them different camouflage skins.

Just take your veteran units with medals, give them some heroes, and call them SS if that works for you.

That's how the game models elite units.

[Warriordude]

I think it's probably better that way, looking forward to the camouflage skins that sounds cool. Thanks Green Knight

[Green Knight]

Originally posted by Warriordude:

I think it's probably better that way, looking forward to the camouflage skins that sounds cool. Thanks Green Knight

You're welcome

I also use camouflage skins to make it easier to tell my units apart. My pink Bf109 is the recon plane version, for example

[Warriordude]

That's new to me, so you can have different colored camouflage or was that a joke lol.

[Green Knight]

Originally posted by Warriordude:

That's new to me, so you can have different colored camouflage or was that a joke lol.

There is a pink skin, truly. I started using it when I mistook my real fighters for my recon plane

[Warriordude]

That's hilarious lol.

[Warriordude]

I know we only have 2 days left until release, but what colors can you use to paint or camouflage your units?. I really think this is a pretty cool feature.