Expiditionary Forces

[GhengisKhan]

This could just be a post that is way off of the mark, but i believe ive read more than once now that you cant give expiditionary forces now. How is this going to affect things like the SCW and the Winter war where such forces were traditionally given? I'm not saying it would be a show stopper but i dont think expiditionary forces should be cut. Now they may have a better way of representing this that i dont know about ( i hope they do ).

 

[GhengisKhan]

This could just be a post that is way off of the mark, but i believe ive read more than once now that you cant give expiditionary forces now. How is this going to affect things like the SCW and the Winter war where such forces were traditionally given? I'm not saying it would be a show stopper but i dont think expiditionary forces should be cut. Now they may have a better way of representing this that i dont know about ( i hope they do ).

Well my ? was answered in another post . You can only igve exp forces to an ally now .

 

[unmerged(5205)]

Well my ? was answered in another post . You can only igve exp forces to an ally now .

That sucks IMO

 

[Grosshaus]

That sucks IMO

Tell me of an instance where actual fighting troops were given to a non-ally?

Correct, in Spanish Civil War only. A situation which was different on only one occasion from a general rule is what events are for.

 

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Tell me of an instance where actual fighting troops were given to a non-ally?

Correct, in Spanish Civil War only. A situation which was different on only one occasion from a general rule is what events are for.

I expect in the above he meant the Continuation War, not the Winter War--Finland was a cobelligerent, not an Axis member. Not that it was that different, I suppose.

I imagine an expeditionary force wouldn't do it justice, but I wonder how the AVG will be represented? I forget how it was in HoI 1. Just a drain on manpower for the U.S., free fighter group for the RoC? If so, how does Chennault figure in, and how does he go from being (Nationalist Chinese) AVG commander to U.S. Fourteenth Air Force commander?

Aside from this rather minor point, what would be really great is if we could ask for expeditionary forces. This would make SP combined offensives--Overlord and Market Garden examples par excellence--so much easier and fun.

It could also preclude the expeditionary force spam I got from allies playing as Germany, I could demand the Italian forces I wanted instead of getting some infantry division that would be better suited actually, you know, defending Italy in an Italian corps.

 

[unmerged(5205)]

Tell me of an instance where actual fighting troops were given to a non-ally?

Correct, in Spanish Civil War only. A situation which was different on only one occasion from a general rule is what events are for.

I didn't say the new rule wasn't realistic...I just love sending exped. forces

 

[unmerged(6093)]

Perhaps it can be modded allowing a you to send volunteers, an event drawing manpower and supplies enough to allow the recipitant to form divisions (like in Spain and Finland)?

 

[Luka]

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Aside from this rather minor point, what would be really great is if we could ask for expeditionary forces. This would make SP combined offensives--Overlord and Market Garden examples par excellence--so much easier and fun....[snip]

I posted a while back about the cooperation of allies in the game. But unfortunately it doesnt look like its been implemented So even though you're on teh same side, you're not actually fighting together as such. e.g. If you're the UK the US could land an invasion and you'd know nothing about it at all. Not really realistic. Probably quite difficult to get the AI to plan and inform it's allies of its major offensives. But it would be very nice and realistic.