Army Composition

[alp177]

Not necessarily. Total division org is based on an average. So it could go up or down depending on current makeup as well as land doctrine (bonuses for certain troop types).

Yeah i saw the same thing after watching last WWW carefully but if your indusrty can support it it is always good to have arty or other support companies

 

[bkuepers]

Yeah i saw the same thing after watching last WWW carefully but if your indusrty can support it it is always good to have arty or other support companies

Industry as well as the infrastructure levels of the area you are fighting in. I too will be using a lot of support companies and full artillery/at battalions when possible.

 

[fredgiblet]

Ok first off going to be honest never played Hearts of Iron III either so I admit looking at the dev diaries, videos of that game and the stuff for the new Hearts of Iron 4 coming out I am still left confused about some things. Can someone explain a bit more about how armies in this game works? Like is there a rough division balance you would want like how in EU4 you don't want too much Cavalry generally or things of that nature?

We won't know for sure until after the game is released, but Paradox has made combined arms a thing throughout HoI3 so it's a reasonable guess that it will make an appearance in 4. Most likely you'll get bonuses for having infantry, artillery and armor in the same division, though the specifics, again, will have to wait.

 

[Wimpola]

Going by that each cell is 1000 men, a division being made of up to 6 brigades and each brigade being between 1000 and 5000 men you have up to 30k in each division. I get that my curiosity is more about the spread. If you have too much of one thing in a division does it start giving diminishing returns? Does missing some one element just cause an automatic penalty of some kind? Like say you have resources to make as you wanted 50 divisions what would be the balanced approach?

Each unit is not 1,000 men because you can add artillery battalions which are far smaller and other support units. Also stacking infantry will lead to serious consequences for mobility combat for attack and defense as well as manpower.