Fodder wrote: There is only one BLUFOR Coalition that actually needs SP-HAWK (Scandinavia), all other coalitions already have SPAAG, Mobile SAMs, and ASF as their air defense.
One of our goals with
WARGAME: 1991 was to increase the playability of each nation, not just coalitions. If a nation lacks something, we've tried to add that. The HAWK also fills a different role from other systems like the Rapier, which means it was often necessary to add even for nations with extant SAMs.
Similar considerations have been made for SPAAGs and mortars: the Grkpbv 302 m/84 is in even though Norway and Denmark both have 81mm and 107mm mortars, because Sweden should be as playable as possible on its own.
As an added bonus, this means we can be more flexible about modifying, adding, and removing Coalitions, because we haven't intentionally left nations with gaping lacks we expected a specific other nation to fill.