A few questions to the Developers regarding Divisions

[ccruler]

I had a few specific questions to the developers. First of all, keep up the good work. I have no doubt that this will be a great game upon release. My questions are as follows:

1) Can one convert say, an Infantry Division into a Motorized Infantry Division, and if so, how? I ask this as my first playthrough is intended to be as Germany and over the timeframe of the war several Infantry units became motorised.

2) Will there be different types of artillery battalions? I personally recommend one have the choice between regular artillery and heavy artillery battalions. Perhaps heavy artillery battalions could incur a larger mobility penalty but more firepower.

3) In regards to Airborne Infantry units, which types of battalions can be airdropped? Is it only Airborne Infantry Battalions that can be airdropped?

 

[GhengisKhan]

I had a few specific questions to the developers. First of all, keep up the good work. I have no doubt that this will be a great game upon release. My questions are as follows:

1) Can one convert say, an Infantry Division into a Motorized Infantry Division, and if so, how? I ask this as my first playthrough is intended to be as Germany and over the timeframe of the war several Infantry units became motorised.

Yes by assinging the division a motorized template. you can change what template a division is using.

2) Will there be different types of artillery battalions? I personally recommend one have the choice between regular artillery and heavy artillery battalions. Perhaps heavy artillery battalions could incur a larger mobility penalty but more firepower.

No and yes. There will not be seperate hvy/light etc artillery btns but there will also be rocket art btns.

3) In regards to Airborne Infantry units, which types of battalions can be airdropped? Is it only Airborne Infantry Battalions that can be airdropped?

Only paras and a few select support btns according to what we know.

 

[rjohansen]

1. This is possible. You can change template for a division.

Q. What I wonder is, what happens to the name of the divisions then? As Germany for instance, there won't exist both an 1. Infanterie-Divison AND a 1. Panzergrenadier-Division at the same time. I have asked this question before, but haven't found an answer for it yet.

Like what if you have a "Sicherungs-Division", "Festungs-Division", "Infanterie-Divison" and "Panzergrenadier-Divison" template, if you start numbering at "1" you will have several of the same divisions in the game...

 

[Mannstien]

Yes by assinging the division a motorized template. you can change what template a division is using.

This one is going to trick a few people in their first games, I can see people changing their base templates and changing things than later on discover they are out of supply because their starting template changed all of their existing divisions on the field.

 

[Nicolas I]

This one is going to trick a few people in their first games, I can see people changing their base templates and changing things than later on discover they are out of supply because their starting template changed all of their existing divisions on the field.

Changing what template a single division follows (then changing this division only) is not at all the same thing as changing the template all division of a type follows (then changing them all)...

 

[GhengisKhan]

This one is going to trick a few people in their first games, I can see people changing their base templates and changing things than later on discover they are out of supply because their starting template changed all of their existing divisions on the field.

agreed. if i recall correctly it also takes away a good chunck of veterancy and affects organization. I can see someone say accidentally doing this to a big group of units who are currently fighting......bad news.

 

[LordOfWar16]

agreed. if i recall correctly it also takes away a good chunck of veterancy and affects organization. I can see someone say accidentally doing this to a big group of units who are currently fighting......bad news.

You would have to change the entire template for that tho. If you just swap the template for one division only that division will be affected by the change.

If you swap the template of the 1. Infantry-Division to motorized, only the 1. Division will switch. If you edit the template and swap out the infantry battalions for motorized ones on the other hand, all Infantry-Divisions of that template will change.

 

[rjohansen]

I don't think til will be an major issue. You would have to go in the division designer etc. However, perhaps a pop-up saying, do you really wan't to do this could help?
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