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Originally Posted by sharkbit
And I won't even talk about the time in September 1943 when I saw some "friendly" Italian Air Force aircraft approaching who then proceeded to attack me, luckily with minimal damage before I was able to crash dive.
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Italy surrendered and signed a military armistice with the Allies early in Sept 1943, I can't remember when the game switches them from Axis to Allied but I would guess it would be somewhere between the 3rd and 9th of the month.
My assumption has always been that from that point on, anything spawning from the Italy/Italian roster will be an enemy unit and consider you the same. I think there is a separate roster for the Italian forces that stayed on board with Mussolini and the Axis, under 'RSI.' I assume anything spawning from
that roster would still be a friendly after the armistice but if the two rosters share common classes of ships, planes, etc., I don't know how you'd know which was which until the shooting started without having gotten a proper look at any flags/markings that would verify their allegiance.
At any rate, after Italy changes sides in the game the only friendly "Italian" forces left are the RSI ones... so don't be surprised if your former BFFs in the Med get very unfriendly indeed 'round about Sept 1943.
