Characters

### Different classes

Characters or Heroes are the player's personal and customized soldiers to be used in the FPS portion of the game. The 'Heroes' section allows for creating, renaming, and customization of your soldiers. Soldiers are able to carry different weapons and be assigned combat badges that grant in-game perks; these can range from increased running speed to ammo pick-up from dead soldiers. Soldiers can enter into a battle where a player slot is available using resources from participating assault teams.

The six character classes in the game are:

### Career Progression (rank)

By doing special deeds in combat, your character will increase his Rank; this will unlock additional perks for your character:

* At rank 6, a character becomes a Squad Leader. He can give orders to his Squad.
* At rank 12, a character can control Assault Teams and play a part in the Strategy Game.
* At rank 18, a character can be optionally upgraded to a General. Generals are solely used to control assault teams in the strategy game. Upgrading a character to general is free but is not reversible.

* Infantry
* Tank Crew
* Fighter Pilot
* Paratrooper
* Recon

### Additional Characters

You can buy soldiers of any type (class), if you have:

* unlocked the character class
* the funds to buy it ( or )

2. Choose character type - blue box
3. Choose rank (recommended player buy characters at rank 0 unless they are involved in the Strategy Game.
4. Select name - Manually (typing in the black box) or Automatically (Generating one by clicking the wheel in the yellow box)
5. Finally, choose to pay with  or , and enjoy the new soldier!

### Roster Limitations

Only 30 soldiers per faction are able to be used in the Action Game. Having more than this will result in a prompt upon trying to go to battle:

Soldiers on active duty are the ones that you can switch between while in battle.
You currently have [number of] soldiers on active duty (Generals do not count). This means you will no longer be able to bring all of them into battle and which ones will be available will be selected at random for every battle.
In order to guarantee availability of your roster,
please send [number of] soldiers on leave.

### [Old feature] Career change

    Characters created before August 2016 can change career (class). Costs and Ranks to unlock those career changes are detailed below:

## Character Customization

Whatever the class, each character is customizable. In the lobby, the main panel is shown here.

* You can change **your character's name** by clicking on the pencil to the right of it in the blue box.
* The black box is the tabs to customize different parts of your loadouts\*
* The green box is the **equipped-items** sub-menu where you can equip and modify each part of your loadout. It currently shows the equipment loadout. It will change as you select different tabs within the black box.
	+ Any item inside this box on any of the tabs will be actually **available in battle**
* The white box is the **available equipment** menu
	+ In the purple box it is divided into 4 categories:
		- Firearms
		- Explosives
		- Close Combat Weapons
		- equipment (binoculars, etc.)
	+ Some equipment is available (previously purchased and unequipped) - Image 1 (Gewehr 43)
	+ Some is ready-to-purchase - Image 2 (MP 34)
	+ Some is locked and requires completing a Ribbon first. You can click on the ribbon to see how close you are to unlocking it and how to unlock that specific ribbon. - Image 3 (C96)

**\*In the loadout tabs (black box)**, from left to right, you can show:

1. Your equipment and weapons (3 equipment slots, +1 for Veterans)
2. The vehicles you will access during battle
3. The combat badges (various perks in battle and when controlling ATs) This can also be seen bottom left with heavy set currently equipped and +1 slot for Veterans
4. The camouflage in which you will be dressed
5. Your Assault Teams (rank 12+ only)

**Weapons and equipment**

* You can equip up to 3 (or 4) items
* You are also limited by equipment points which are weapon specific and vary based on the amount of ammo carried.

You can further **customize weapons**, see this section.

### Vehicles

* The vehicles menu is shown in the purple box when the vehicles tab is selected in the black box and the menu is divided into multiple categories based on the character class:
	+ 3 types for infantry (terrain vehicles, motorcycles, infantry support vehicles)
	+ 2 types for recon (motorcycles, recon vehicles)
	+ 5 types for tanks (light, medium and heavy tanks as well as medium and heavy tank destroyers)
	+ 3 types for pilots (recon planes, medium and heavy fighter planes)

**Customization**

* On vehicles, you can equip Supply Crates.
* On planes, you can change ammunition type.
* On Tanks, you can change ammunition type and equip supply crates.

You can further **customize vehicles**, see this section.

## Strategies and Tips

Always keeping a standard infantryman character around makes you much more versatile on the battlefield, if your tanker is starting to run out of tank resources, you can continue on foot with your infantryman instead to avoid leaving the battle.

## See Also:

* Camouflage
* Ranks