Historical Chinese division templates
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Guangxi's military as of 1935.1.22 according to Nanjing's investigation report, pp. 48-53:
My notes and comments are in italic, the rest are part of the report.
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4th Army Group (Nanjing's designation of the entire Guangxi military)
- 7th Corps
- 19th Division
- 55th Regiment
- 56th Regiment
- 57th Regiment
- 24th Division
- 70th Regiment
- 71st Regiment
- 72nd Regiment
- Independent Regiment
- 19th Division
- 15th Corps (Recently downsized to 2 regiments per division, designation of subsisting regiments not yet investigated)
- 43rd Division
- 127th Regiment
- 128th Regiment
- 129th Regiment
- 44th Division
- 130th Regiment
- 131st Regiment
- 132nd Regiment
- 45th Division
- 133rd Regiment
- 134th Regiment
- 135th Regiment
- 43rd Division
- Guangxi Border Guard
- Guangxi Militia
- 1st Reserve Regiment
- 2nd Reserve Regiment
- 3rd Reserve Regiment
- 4th Reserve Regiment (The 4 reserve regiments consists of 8,xxx conscripts)
- Department of Aviation (2x trainer aircraft, 5 or 6 scout planes, 3 fighters)
- Artillery Battalion (6 "Shanghai-made mountain guns", probably Krupp 7.5cm Gebirgskanone M1904 made by Kiangnan Arsenal)
- Each regiment consists of 3 infantry battalions and 1 mortar company (4 mortars); Each battalion consists of 3 infantry companies and 1 HMG company (4 machine guns); An infantry consists of 111 personnel, 90 of which are combatants, armed with 90 rifles.
- There are 9 regiments of standing militia ("常備隊", from what I gathered, it seems to be the "active service" component of Guangxi militia, but I'm not 100% confident), each regiment consists of 1 HMG company and 3 infantry battalions, subdivided into 3 companies each.
- This table is based on the investigation of January 22.
Thank you. Any info on the Ma armies?
Yeah, I saw them. They have one on the Red Army too. I will get the Chinese one and the two Japanese ones when I can.
It would be interesting to compare the in-game Chinese divisions and organization with the references for 1936 and 1939 starts.
As written about in these forums last year, the nature and behavior (close proximity lot a division) coordinating like of the standard triangular Chinese army of 3 relatively small (by Western standards) divisions might best be represented by making templates based around 12 infantry bns and the combined divisional and army level support detachments might amount to enough to justify combining these at army level into modest size support companies.
As written about in these forums last year, the nature and behavior (close proximity lot a division) coordinating like of the standard triangular Chinese army of 3 relatively small (by Western standards) divisions might best be represented by making templates based around 12 infantry bns and the combined divisional and army level support detachments might amount to enough to justify combining these at army level into modest size support companies.
Not an expert on this but shouldnt Germanized divisions have a different template as they sound they were more up to strength and didn't have the large manpower issues that standard divisions had