Mixed land/naval/air formations?

[Alexander Seil]

Totally stealing Hansag's idea here (from another thread), but what about mixed land, naval and air formations? We know there are Theater-level HQs, but will Eisenhower not be in control of his own airforce? Are there air/naval HQs? Feel free to post your speculation (and fish for Paradox's confirmation of some of the competing theories).

 

[Battlecry]

Totally stealing Hansag's idea here (from another thread), but what about mixed land, naval and air formations? We know there are Theater-level HQs, but will Eisenhower not be in control of his own airforce? Are there air/naval HQs? Feel free to post your speculation (and fish for Paradox's confirmation of some of the competing theories).

I agree. If assigning theatre control to the AI is an option, certainly all the assets within that theatre should be included.

 

[zeekater]

I'm looking forward to seeing how the new command system will work and if they added this feature.

Would be pretty sweet to have a theatre 'Atlantic Wall', with it's own divisions spread along the coast, air units patrolling the skies and even a few subs for coastal defence

 

[Alexander Seil]

This is particularly crucial for the Pacific. If the AI MacArthur can't coordinate with the AI Nimitz, the US Pacific campaign would become an unmitigated disaster. It would also make sense to enable naval HQs (if such exist) to control a whole theater. Although I suggest that naval/air HQs only exist at the theater level. That would also take care of Doenitz sailing in the Atlantic...

 

[unmerged(10977)]

Would not MacArthur and Nimitz belong to two different theaters? (south western Pacific and central Pacific)? There were also some major coordination issues, especially during the Leyte operation.

 

[Alexander Seil]

There should be coordination issues. But there should also be coordination. Otherwise we'll have D-Day with no air support....