I knew the Soviets had a whole bunch of them:
Historical Soviet Medals:
Defense of Odessa
Defense of Sevastopol
Defense of Soviet Arctic
Defense of Caucasus
Defense of Kiev
Defense of Leningrad
Defense of Moscow
Defense of Stalingrad
Capture of Vienna
Capture of Budapest
Capture of Koenigsberg
Capture of Berlin
Liberation of Belgrade
Liberation of Prague
Liberation of Warsaw
Victory over Germany
Victory over Japan
How about medals awarded for successfully defending or capturing a particular map X (a number) amount of times.
I think that would maybe get folks to vote for some of the Community made maps that have not been played recently.
Could this be done??
Example:
Each map you play, or maybe to give the maps longevity, when you play a particular map say, I don't know, 25 times total (maybe more? 40? perhaps some other, maybe even an unreasonable number?),
and your side wins the map, and only if you are still alive (
and perhaps if you also keep the same name for your Player Character) at the end of the round, a record is kept that you survived the battle.
If you do this, what's reasonable (?), I don't know, 15-25 times (maybe more?; if you play RO a lot), you win the Capture of Budapest (or Danzig, Kriegstadt, Berlin, Odessa, etc.) Medal; or the Liberation of Warsaw (or Budapest, Debrecen, etc.); or the Defense of Stalingrad Kessel (or Leningrad, Tractor Works, Basovka, Moscow, Enemy At The Gates, etc., whatever map) Medal.
A Capture or Defense Medal for each map played x amount of times, and if you survive x amount of times.
That, I think would make players play and vote for a variety of maps a number of times, as opposed to concentrating on favorites.
You can base the design of the Medals on the actual historical Medals as listed above (if you Google, you should find them quickly), and make up your own for the maps that are not on the list (it would be great if they could have a few words in the Russian language on them!).
People basically could collect the medals.
The German medals would be similar; I'm not any medal expert, but I am sure the Germans had something similar.
If not, some fictional medals could be designed which would serve for the same purpose as the Soviet Medals in the game.
EDIT: It looks like the Germans had medals called Campaign Shields. Perhaps something with an eagle or Stahlhelm on it or some other appropriate symbol, and the name of the RO map.