Calvalry

[safe-keeper]

Cavalry in WW2 are just infantry with horses for mobility. Bicycles also got used to good use see Yamashita's Bicycle infantry.

Thanks for pointing this out. Of course cavalry didn't charge into combat on horseback, more than motorised infantry units tried to run down enemy soldiers with their trucks. Horses were used for transport of men, supplies, and equipment, not in combat.

 

[CrasherZZ]

Cavalry are great low-cost units for operating in low infrastructure areas since horses can often "live off the land". I really used them mainly for partisan suppression, outflanking Chinese and Mongolian units, and occupying undefended provinces.

 

[Hunter XLR8]

There better be an achievement for Mongolia to conquer all of China with Cavalry units

 

[Loke]

Thanks for pointing this out. Of course cavalry didn't charge into combat on horseback, more than motorised infantry units tried to run down enemy soldiers with their trucks. Horses were used for transport of men, supplies, and equipment, not in combat.

Yes, the Italians did a classic mounted charge and won! The Russians fled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_of_the_Savoia_Cavalleria_at_Isbuscenskij

 

[Mannstien]

Since I didn't see Resistance cells popping up all over Daniels map seems more useful to just build MP.

 

[safe-keeper]

There better be an achievement for Mongolia to conquer all of China with Cavalry units

There was a guy once who decided to play HOI3 as Turkey and build only cavalry units. He was aiming for "eight million hooves", I seem to recall. Sadly the AAR died early on, it was looking really promising, too.

 

[Sharp163]

There is cavalry units in the game, although you can't "produce" horses, they are abstracted into Weapons/Support Equipment.

You mean horses aren't a resource, like oil and steel?!

My dreams of Poland are shattered...

 

[Nelfe]

You mean horses aren't a resource, like oil and steel?!

My dreams of Poland are shattered...

Yes, there isn't any horses resources in the game, nor horses equipments

However I think it could be very quickly modded. Podcat said once we can even mod a "sock" equipment if we want.

 

[Sharp163]

Yes, there isn't any horses resources in the game, nor horses equipments

However I think it could be very quickly modded. Podcat said once we can even mod a "sock" equipment if we want.

But... What about my promised horse armor DLC?

 

[Augustus93]

Yes, there isn't any horses resources in the game, nor horses equipments

However I think it could be very quickly modded. Podcat said once we can even mod a "sock" equipment if we want.

My gold resource will become a reality. I will furthermore add gold to be required for every single type of equipment and I will add gold only in Luxembourg. Then everyone else will become weaker and Luxembourg will be a world power in no time at all.

 

[kviiri]

Since I didn't see Resistance cells popping up all over Daniels map seems more useful to just build MP.

There aren't on-map resistance cells. Resistance is a stat that causes a state's buildings to suffer sabotage, causes attrition to units and gives extra intel to enemies. It also spreads, so unmanaged resistance won't stay a local problem for long.

 

[theJ]

Yes, the Italians did a classic mounted charge and won! The Russians fled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_of_the_Savoia_Cavalleria_at_Isbuscenskij

That.
Was.
Awesome.

 

[TheRomanRuler]

There is cavalry units in the game, although you can't "produce" horses, they are abstracted into Weapons/Support Equipment.

Pity, i was expecting to build horse factories and to breed horse variants i have improved with experience i earned.

 

[Kapitalisti]

It's for a country that can't afford trucks.

Hey, you! That's right, you stupid Kraut bastards! That's right! Say hello to Ford, and General f*ckin' Motors! You stupid fascist pigs! Look at you! You have horses! What were you thinking?

 

[DazKaz]

What's the minimum size of a Division template in HOI4?

Can we have just one Battalion of Cavalry in a Division, or is the minimum a Brigades worth?
If you were to add an MP support Battalion to an all cavalry Division, would it move at the same speed as the cavalry (assumption here is they are mounted MP's), or will it slow them down?

 

[kviiri]

What's the minimum size of a Division template in HOI4?

Can we have just one Battalion of Cavalry in a Division, or is the minimum a Brigades worth?
If you were to add an MP support Battalion to an all cavalry Division, would it move at the same speed as the cavalry (assumption here is they are mounted MP's), or will it slow them down?

A division consisting of a single brigade consisting of a single battalion is the minimum.

 

[safe-keeper]

Corporal Lolli, unable to draw, as his saber was frozen in its sheath, charged holding high a hand grenade; Trumpeter Carenzi, having to handle both trumpet and pistol, shot by mistake his own horse in the head.​

We make the jokes about Italian WWII military provess for a reason .

Some horses, even though riddled by bullets, would keep galloping for hundreds of meters, squirting blood at every beat, suddenly collapsing only a while after their actual death.[3]​

Zombie horses are pretty cool, though.

 

[Kovax]

"Calvalry" - If men riding camels are Camelry, would Calvalry be men riding calves? I think "Cavalry" is the term you want.

 

[DazKaz]

A division consisting of a single brigade consisting of a single battalion is the minimum.

Thanks for the reply.

So the smallest unit we can have on the map is a battalion.
I wonder if there is an appropriate symbol we can append to the NATO counter, to indicate that in the Division designer?
e.g. II instead of XX

What division template do you guys think would make a good cavalry exploitation force, for remote terrain with bad infra?

 

[Praetonia]

Why would cavalry be worse than infantry? Even if the horses are useless in combat, a cavalry division ought to be able to fight dismounted as an infantry division with more transport.