New Unit: Sputnik

I could see how this could be some kind of Wunderwaffe spy piece but how would it even work and why does it need to be added to a WWII game when Sputnik was made in 1957???

Commander Schleicher wrote:

I could see how this could be some kind of Wunderwaffe spy piece but how would it even work and why does it need to be added to a WWII game when Sputnik was made in 1957???

Seeing the intelligence level of some people in the CoW community I highly doubt they have the mental capacity to create jokes or trolls...

Still possible…

As possible as victory for Steiner's Army.

He did a win a few battles, just lost the war!

Have you seen my updated advanced army commands and brainstorming ideas posts?

I mean, they have Nuclear rockets are in the game and they weren't invented till the late 50s. Sputinik could work.

Even then, what would the purpose be? Just have a little Sputnik icon floating at the top of the screen to reveal every army across the globe? The concept of the game and it's mechanics cannot and will not support a space unit. Even though WWII was technically a technological race, the game is focused more on the "blowing stuff up" part of it.

Not to mention what Sputnik didn’t work like that, it has no cameras. It only lasted two weeks. While a technological marvel that provided very important information, satélites that are actually useful for war would only come years later, far past the scope of the game.

Exactly, and even the "war satellites" were completely fictitious. The Americans and Soviets wanted to make some laser weapons in space but that's probably as far as a space weapon would get. The only thing possible would be like the German sun powered raygun in space which was a concept made under the Wunderwaffe program. Other than rockets, space technology shouldn't, can't, and won't go in CoW.