Mobile Warfare - Motorized Movement Speed

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I have been playing Bulgaria after the recent patch, and I'm using the Mobile Warfare doctrine tree.

I went Mobile Infantry and Modern Blitzkrieg, because I am mainly using motorized infantry. Now that I am checking one of my divisions, I noticed a potential error in the maximum speed stat.
It is a 20x motorized division with engineers, hospital, motorized recon and maintenance support companies.

20x Motorized Infantry: 13.2 km/h
Lowest Base: 12.0 km/h

It then uses the ''lowest base'' in further calculations, as it is supposed to. What I think is happening here, is support companies using the same speed as the highest battalion in the division, but since these are not classified as motorized infantry these don't gain the extra +10% speed.

Am I missing something here or is this indeed not working as intended?

Edit: I used console commands to gain army experience, and removed all support companies. This changes the ''lowest base'' speed back to 13.2 km/h. Imo this is a bug or oversight, since this makes motorized speed modifier completely useless unless you don't use support companies.
 
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Am I missing something here or is this indeed not working as intended?
Doesn't sound right to me, but I'm not a dev. Best way to know is to report it as a bug and see if it changes in the next patch. :)
 

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From what I remember Motorized Recon Company is the culprit here
 
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By the way, am I really missing out on reconnaissance if I don't put recon companies in my division?

It seemed like a good bonus, but until this gets fixed I don't want to give up my max speed
 

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By the way, am I really missing out on reconnaissance if I don't put recon companies in my division?

It seemed like a good bonus, but until this gets fixed I don't want to give up my max speed

Recon is good both for tactics and intelligence. The division will use the speed of your slowest battalion or recon-company. Use motorized recon company to get the speed of motorized.
 
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Recon is good both for tactics and intelligence. The division will use the speed of your slowest battalion or recon-company. Use motorized recon company to get the speed of motorized.

This initial point of this thread was that motorized recon don't benefit from motorized speed modifiers, and thus reduce max speed if you have such modifiers.

I am now wondering what reconnaissance actually does, and whether it is too important to miss out on. I understand from the wiki it influences the type of battle tactic chosen, but I can't find anywhere how big this impact on tactic allocation is.
 
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