You are not calculating in the reserves.
That must be the tank destroyer battalion of the Blue division (Spanish volunteers)They obviously need more tank destroyers...
Germany has far too few brigades!
Someone help them!
That's nothing compared to Japan, who is supposed to invade various locales in SE Asia with 400.000 troops (mainly in 11 division, half a dozen brigade types, plus extras) within half a year. They currently have some 650.000.
At least they have the best heavy artillery arm in the known world. And the only heavy artillery arm in the world at that. Must be all those half a decade old Krupp siege guns.
Except they had not artillery brigades at all...look at the OOB.
Here is an overview of German forces:
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And on another note, given your lack of officers, wouldn't it make sense to avoid building new divisions? And devote all your IC to upgrading / reinforcing / supplying what you have?
They (Japanese) had no artillery brigades although they did have a few scattered artillery regiments. But not enough to really speak of.
Those 14 brigades don't sound excessive for army level heavy artillery, assuming that one brigade = 50 guns or so. Majority would have been in Manchuria.
A version of beta where it is the only major that has gotten it's artillery formations in game will undoubtably be the only version where Japan can bask with it's supramacy in artillery. I wonder how many Soviets will have in the later scenarios in the release version? Hundreds, most likely.
Yeah, the Russians had stupendous amounts of artillery.
Even the allies at El Alamein had something like 900 pieces of artillery for the opening barrage (operation Lightfoot), unless my memory is messing up on me.
Thats 18 brigades if you want to put 50 guns per brigade, hehe
That gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "a shell with your name on it".900 pieces is nothing. In the battle of Seelow Heights the Soviets had almost 17,000; about 1 piece for ever 12 German soldiers.
That gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "a shell with your name on it".
I know what you mean. The really funny thing is that despite the enormous amount of artillery, the initial barrage was a total failure becuase the Germans retreated from their trenches but returned when it was over and beat off the first wave of attackers.