1) Developers are afraid of upsetting a foreign country except those who embrace being the baddie or can't really do much if they object (Russia/North Korea). Or it'd upset the media and cause a shitstorm (Anything Africa Bush war unless you play versus Rhodesia or South Africa. Even black-vs-black and they'll complain)
2) People wanna play as muh special forces operators operating operationally with gucci-gang gear instead of ragtag guerillas.
I wish they'd just be creative, come up with either strangereal with ACTUALLY STRANGE AND REAL wars, not just "This is a cold war gone hot between Yuktobania and Osea (I wonder who those guys are?)" but rather "Not-Argentina with eclectic prototype weapons that became standard issue in their world going to war with not-Turkey equipped with German and Swiss gear."
>>718448982
18 rather than 10. And women had slightly worse odds due to childbirth. You look it up and no matter where you are literally 50% or so odds to survive to adulthood, but once you get there you're pretty solid. It's just wild to realize a 50% mortality rate was normal.
>>718449141
Most wars, excluding tribal ooga booga shit with +50% casualty rates or the great german chimpening of 1600s and you're fine. Mongol too I guess.