Did my first agrarian focused playthrough and picked Brazil for the contemporary era. I liked the bonuses, but their emblematic unit doesn't seem to fit Brazil. Granted, I don't know much about Brazil, but jungle brigades seems laughable and might as well go to any country that is surrounded by jungle. I want to see something that Brazil specializes in, such as urban combat. Give us BOPE and not jungle brigades (lol). Scrap the bonus on forest tiles and add bonuses for fighting near districts or assaulting cities. 

Still wanting jungle brigades to be replaced with Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais. Jungle brigades is borderline racist? Don't know the appropriate word.

I agree with Fullscreen_Lurker.  A quick online search reveals that Brazil has multiple Jungle Infantry Brigades (Brigada de Infantaria de Selva) which specialize in jungle warfare.  So I don't see where this is "laughable" or "racist" since the name is a shortened form of the actual name of a real-life military unit.

Well didn't you know everything is racist sheesh

Waterdesk91 wrote:

Still wanting jungle brigades to be replaced with Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais. Jungle brigades is borderline racist? Don't know the appropriate word.

Are you liberal white American woman?

Wald

They admitted they didn't know the appropriate word, and knew that "racist" wasn't quite correct.  Maybe they should have said "stereotypical".

Truth is, it's been pretty hard to make distinctive Contemporary Era units.  There are certainly some good ones, but far fewer distinctive standouts like the earlier era ones.  And so "Jungle Brigade" does come across as a bit generic and seems rooted in "Brazil has jungles, right?"      So I understand the complaint, and OP knew they didn't have the right words for it either.

It's an interesting inconsistency, though, no? On one hand you have Jaguar Warriors (Ocēlōmeh), on the other Franci Milites (Frankish Knights). Rocket Cart (Huo Che) and Geobukseon (Turtle Ship). And so on. I'm not sure which way I prefer, having them all in their original language would be interesting, for sure, but I find the ones that are currently not 'translated' are often source of me not bothering with the name, because I look at something like Ṣäbu Ša Qašti, short circuit for a moment and then keep calling them Babylonian EU.

DNLH wrote:

It's an interesting inconsistency, though, no? On one hand you have Jaguar Warriors (Ocēlōmeh), on the other Franci Milites (Frankish Knights). Rocket Cart (Huo Che) and Geobukseon (Turtle Ship). And so on. I'm not sure which way I prefer, having them all in their original language would be interesting, for sure, but I find the ones that are currently not 'translated' are often source of me not bothering with the name, because I look at something like Ṣäbu Ša Qašti, short circuit for a moment and then keep calling them Babylonian EU.

Yes, that inconsistency occurred to me after my last post.  Personally, I prefer localized names that better aid with playing the game instead of "immersing" me in names that I have to look up and remember their translations.

DNLH wrote:

It's an interesting inconsistency, though, no? On one hand you have Jaguar Warriors (Ocēlōmeh), on the other Franci Milites (Frankish Knights). Rocket Cart (Huo Che) and Geobukseon (Turtle Ship). And so on. I'm not sure which way I prefer, having them all in their original language would be interesting, for sure, but I find the ones that are currently not 'translated' are often source of me not bothering with the name, because I look at something like Ṣäbu Ša Qašti, short circuit for a moment and then keep calling them Babylonian EU.

It probably has to do with the fact that those are historical units. It's not just the Jungle Brigades, most of the Contemporary EU have generic names like that but are also based on an existing military unit or vehicle from their associated country's army. For some reason Amplitude doesn't use these units' real names; perhaps there are some kind of restrictions to using their names because they are currently being used or serving in modern armies.

Fullscreen_Lurker wrote:
perhaps there are some kind of restrictions to using their names because they are currently being used or serving in modern armies.

As far as I have been told, this is indeed the case., even for some gear that is not in active use. It sounded to me like it was a much more complicated legal matter than one would expect.