Motorised Divisions?

[Antless]

Motorised are just infantry, but faster and much more expensive. Just as regular infantry, they have quiet bad attack values and no breakthrough or piercing to speak of. They are best used as a meat shield in your armored divisions or as under-sized divisions for mop-up duty. As a regular division on the front line, they can do very little your infantry can't, in fact, they probably can do much less, as supplying them with in-line artillery is not easy if you want to keep the speed (L-SPAR and late-game tech are your only choices).

 

[ABuster]

So, should I build motorised only? Or merge them with tanks. I was think 3 MOT, 3 MOT, 2 SPART, 1 M TD, and support: field hospital, signal, recon, eng., logistics? Good or bad? I'm germany, and I'm not to sure. The strat I'm going for is having mostly infantry with certain areas with mobile divisions to breakthrough and encircle.

Atm armored divisions are so OP , because of stupid AI not creating senseful divisions, that this question is really not important. But for later, mechanized Infantry is like any infantry support, but against heavy armored divisions with good hard attack you can raise your defense against hard attack quiet good. I will use it for sure

 

[Pro_Consul]

As a regular division on the front line, they can do very little your infantry can't,

What they can do is advance much faster than your foot-borne enemy can retreat. But the cost of doing this across a large front can be prohibitive, of course.

 

[Antless]

What they can do is advance much faster than your foot-borne enemy can retreat. But the cost of doing this across a large front can be prohibitive, of course.

It would be interesting to know if overrunning the enemy this way is also possible with smaller division (I assume it is). It would be a good choice to include small MOT divisions in your regular army, not only for desert painting, but also to delete divisions in favorable terrain outright.

 

[Pro_Consul]

In principle, Antless, that is a perfectly workable idea. Lighter framework "pursuit" divisions, so to speak, are quite viable. Not sure what the downsides would be. Interesting idea. I would imagine they might be more susceptible to air attack, being in motion, away from the herd so they would have no defensive bonus. Don't see why that would be particularly dangerous for them, though.

Aha! One downside just occurred to me, though I think its relatively minor. It is rare that an entire frontline retreats in unison. So probably the first units you routed would have to be allowed to retreat, with you holding your pursuit forces waiting for a larger hole to be forced. Then when that hole enlarged and you sent them in, they would have to bypass some fights still in progress. So they would have still fighting defenders behind them, some defenders would arrive at their retreat targets before them, and it would look a bit chaotic. I dont think the early retreaters would be a problem, since they would not have had any time to recover. But if reinforcements SRing in from elsewhere also arrived at roughly this time, it could get really messy for a bit. Not necessarily dangerous, just confused.

Still, a nifty idea to play with. Good one.

 

[Spenny91]

Yep, Wraith, that is exactly what I do myself. Well, one exception might be mountaineers. If I am using them in numbers, and as Germany I probably would, then I would probably leave them with the regular INF divs at normal priority.

Yeah, should I build mountaineers at all? Wasn't sure, I don't think I'd have a use for them as germany.

 

[Pro_Consul]

Yeah, should I build mountaineers at all? Wasn't sure, I don't think I'd have a use for them as germany.

Oh there are potential uses to be sure. If you plan to invade the UK, the northern two thirds is all hill and mountain. If Italy gets invaded, your entire border with them is in the Alps. There is a fair amount of mountain work you can do during Barbarossa, especially in the later stages when you get to the Urals. Heck, there's mountains and hills almost everywhere in Europe you might go. France and the Low Countries are about the only places you don't have a use for them.