Inf attack question

[unmerged(39876)]

Ha ha I"m doing something wrong.

I'm attacking with 52 inf (combined artilery and regular) on 2 polish infantry divisions. I"ve got as much infantry tech as I can. including the gold.
Organisation is 62. The provinces attacked have no land defences.

Yet Everywhere, inlcuding Finland, armies of 52 are being destroyed by armies of 2.


What's going on?

 

[unmerged(23238)]

Ha ha I"m doing something wrong.

I'm attacking with 52 inf (combined artilery and regular) on 2 polish infantry divisions. I"ve got as much infantry tech as I can. including the gold.
Organisation is 62. The provinces attacked have no land defences.

Yet Everywhere, inlcuding Finland, armies of 52 are being destroyed by armies of 2.


What's going on?

Is it winter and or bad weather? As I remember it, these conditions gain the defender.

Be sure of scheduling your attacks to start co-ordinated at the same - or about the same - hour and then at an early morning hour.

Are you attacking from one single province or from several directions? It is better to spread out the attack from several directions.

How does your leadership set up look like?

Also, I remember lots of provinces in Finland having very low infrastructure. If your armies sit down in one of these, they take some penalty regardless of enemy strenght. Moving through these provinces can be slow and risky.

 

[Tachikaze]

Low infra eats up your armies quicker than you can say "frostbite".

Also, attack from multiple direction with field marshals leading the way or you'll suffer a massive stacking penalty. Night, blizzards, rain, frozen, river crossings and such conditions may well bring you down to 1%. Watch the battle modifier summary just below the leader pictures, it pays off big time...

 

[unmerged(23238)]

Low infra eats up your armies quicker than you can say "frostbite".

Also, attack from multiple direction with field marshals leading the way or you'll suffer a massive stacking penalty. Night, blizzards, rain, frozen, river crossings and such conditions may well bring you down to 1%. Watch the battle modifier summary just below the leader pictures, it pays off big time...

Yes, rivers of course, I forgot.

 

[unmerged(8319)]

You probably have 1 in attack efficiency. Hover the mouse over your units in battle and see the breakdown of why your attack is penalised so badly.

 

[Kanitatlan]

You must be getting things very radically wrong to get divisions being defeated at these odds. As Sgt. Bulldog has said your combat efficiency must be down at 1% as even if your attack and defence strengths were reduced to 1 you would still win at those odds. You must be doing everything wrong so I'm not really sure where to start. I think the first thing you need to do is combine your units into groups and give them all commanders. Make sure commanders are commanding too many divisions each. make sure there is at least one field marshal present. Having done that you can't possibly not win at odds of 52:1.

 

[unmerged(39876)]

I was checking the manual project and I didn't realize the units needed commanders. I only thought the cabinet was change-able\installable.

weather was good and these are non-river early morning attacks.

I tried again with commanders and now they are having more favorable results. Thanks for the replies.

 

[krahen]

Is the province has a mountain? If it does that might be the main thing y u cant win the battle.


Moutnain province tend to be unwinable unless you use mountaineers or bombing them. Or try encercling them it will be much helpfull

 

[Tachikaze]

12 Tac Bombers + Air Marshal = No worries mate...