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The purpose of this thread is to provide a venue to discuss the British Raj military during World War II (specifically, 1936) and starting templates for The Raj in HoI4.
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If anyone knows of a historic division type used by the Raj, that might be useful to add to the game.
They need to drastically touch up India. Either in a free update or with a DLC (maybe post-war, as India became a major power and industrialized massively then)
India right now is a steaming pile of .... famine.
From the ever reliable Wikipedia: "Infantry divisions consisted of three infantry brigades, of three infantry battalions. Usually, one battalion in each brigade was British and two were Indian or Gurkha. Four brigades were raised consisting entirely of Gurkha battalions. Later in the war, as British infantry reinforcements became more scarce, particularly in the South East Asian Theatre, British battalions in brigades fighting in Burma were replaced by Indian units."
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1936 RAJ templates are abstracted to fit the game.
My initial impression is that the Raj army in 1936 was based on a regimental system that was task-organized to conduct operations.
Can British Raj, should it goes fascist/communist, decides to militarize its population a bit? Even +15% factor would be good.
From the ever reliable Wikipedia: "Infantry divisions consisted of three infantry brigades, of three infantry battalions. Usually, one battalion in each brigade was British and two were Indian or Gurkha. Four brigades were raised consisting entirely of Gurkha battalions. Later in the war, as British infantry reinforcements became more scarce, particularly in the South East Asian Theatre, British battalions in brigades fighting in Burma were replaced by Indian units."
One cool idea that could help some of these templates is allowing tanks and light tanks to support company’s. Seems like that would be easy to implement and create a use for small amounts of tanks... and be very historical
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We have split the recon support company into several now so that it can be tailored to the division type you have, and the speed it needs to move at because now the speed on the recon company will be limiting the whole division. Meaning that if you scout your trucks with cavalry they will need to move at cavalry speed.
We have:
Armored cars is a good sweet spot of capability, speed and armor while light tanks help keep your hardness and armor up in tougher divisions.
- Cavalry Recon Detachment - regular horsey boys you are used to. Cheap, but not that fast.
- Motorized Recon Company - Motorized, so jeeps and light vehicles. Fast but weak
- Light Armored Recon Company - Armored cars
- Armored Recon Company - Light tanks