I have the same feelings about Italy whole heartedly fighting against NATO as well and how it was portrayed in the game. If Italy had decided to fight she would have been much better served by just using her resources in the Med, not in some half assed attack into Southern Germany and Austria - especially considering how easy it is to defend the passes thru the Alps for any attack by NATO into Italy.
She would have been far better, if she had actually fought NATO, to just hang tight in the north, use her fleet to contest the central Med and Adriatic and take out Yugoslavia as a NATO ally. Thus she aids the Russians but not with a sudden thrust into Germany that doesnt do much but get a lot of her armed forces hit hard and burn up almost all her pre-war military supplies in the process.
And Muti brings out an important point as well - that much of Italy was right to far right and if anything would have joined NATO against the Russians and against any Italian government that tried to take Italy into a war against NATO.
A canon that mentions Italian units fighting other Italian units, fighting within Italy itself going on, or units changing sides and joining NATO is much more believable considering the actual situation of Italy, even if you do have her follow the path that is in the canon.
I think you can see a scenario like this in Going Home - where the Folgore MD has changed sides and is now heading home itself to fight the government that brought Italy into the war against NATO. Surely there had to be other units that did the same thing, not just in Yugoslavia but in Germany and Austria as well.
An Italian civil war caused by the government's decision to join against NATO would be a great addition to a player canon. And frankly if there ever is a rewrite of the old timeline it would be a very logical path for how things may have "actually" played out in Italy in the Twilight War.
Or you could have Italy join the war on NATO's side - but again now its the leftists who raise the banner of civil war and you have units fighting units again - and any Italian participation on NATO's side rapidly dwindles as units are called home to try to restore stability - especially as you could add Russian nuclear strikes against Italy instead of NATO ones as being why the govt cant handle the civil war without bringing most of its military home.
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