Regiments is one of the more exciting wargames on our radar for 2021, shaping up to be the Wargame successor we've been wanting for a while. Given that it's still a ways off yet, details are coming through at a slow pace. It's fine - we don't expect devs to force a dev-log when there's nothing to talk about, but it does make it hard to not get excited when an update does land.
The game's November 2020 update focuses more on aesthetics over gameplay and looks at what the game is doing in the realm of camouflage and tactical markings. The Cold War - as we explored in our time with Mobius Front '83 - saw a rapid rise in weapons technology that challenged a lot of the assumptions that came out of the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. The dominance of the MBT is still something that hasn't quite been resolved, even today, and this issue was coming to the fore during the post-war period.
According to the devs, both NATO and the Warsaw Pact were experimenting with camouflage for their armoured units stationed in Germany. NATO would favour camos that fitted their surroundings, while the PACT would use cheaper camos that made vehicles harder to identify at range (as engagement ranges ballooned during this era).
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