Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45

Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45

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Uniform guide [wip]
By tungstencore
Read this guide to learn about visual appearance of each faction, to get better at distinguishing friendlies from enemies, to avoid friendly fire and identify enemies quicker.

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Germany: greatcoats
Germany: Volkssturm
Volkssturm wears greatcoats with slightly different color tone and VS armbands, as well as regular greatcoats.
Germany: Fallschirmjägers
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Germany: Luftwaffe
Germany: smocks and parkas
Germany: tank crew suits
more images to be added here
Germany: tunic

camos:
USSR: Tunic m35
Earlier pattern tunic, appears mostly on 1941-1943 maps. Appears on 1943-1945 maps with ~25% chance with epaulets instead of collar insignia, mixed in with m43 tunics.

Late-war insignia:
USSR: tunic m43
This tunic appears on 1943-45 maps, with 3 different color variations.
USSR: Telogreika (padded jacket)
Telogreika may appear on winter maps; it may have early or late war insignia


marine variation:
USSR: tank crew suit
USSR: Greatcoat
Has 2 color tone variations; comes with either early or late war insignia
USSR: Camo suits
White camo; Amoeba camo in 3 color variations; Leaf 1942 and 1944 patterns camo
USSR: Marines with bushlat
Poland: Greatcoat
Poles in general have distinctive yellow-blue collar symbols and white eagles on headgear; although sometimes those are absent.
Greatcoats have 2 color tones.
Poland: tunic wz43
wz43 tunic comes with 3 color variations
Poland: tank crew suit
polish tankers use soviet tank suit with polish insignia
Czechoslovakia: Greatcoat
Czechoslovaks use british greatcoats they got from lend-lease. They also use a mix of soviet and british gear.
Czechoslovakia: Tunic
Tunics are of czechoslovak pattern, produced in USSR from lend-lease material. They have 2 color variations.
Czechoslovakia: Camo suits
Czechoslovaks use soviet white camo and amoeba suits. The only difference in their appearance is the headgear
4 Comments
76561198121244421 30 Sep, 2024 @ 1:58pm 
i feel that the some of the german uniforms are too green tho
Aetra 23 May, 2024 @ 8:07pm 
i love the amount of detail the devs put into the uniforms
maksim_white_tick 6 Oct, 2023 @ 9:12am 
no more funny friendly fire...
Daikatan 20 Jun, 2023 @ 3:30am 
Thanks. When I return to game after a pause, I'm always confused with this.