Multiple leaders for stack

[Waffen9999]

Hopefully they'll implement this idea to finally get some use from all the leaders you wind up with. As everyone is familiar with in Hearts of Iron 2 the standard stack size was generally 3 for a corps size. The problem then is you reach a certain point where you've fielded about as many units as you can and you still have tons of leaders left.

Perhaps they should finally allow you to assign multiple leaders to a stack. Ie. a leader per division, with a nominal commander in multiple division stacks. Would allow you to use everyone effectively and could provide certain advantages perhaps based on who is over all command, ie. 1 division is lead by an Offensive leader so that divisions gets the bonus while its counterpart is lead by a Defensive leader which gets its bonus and then the head general has say Offensive as well so both get a minor Offensive boost.

 

[unmerged(41291)]

This sounds like a good idea, but may be a bit of a micromanagement problem when playing, say, the SU, Germany, or even China. The SU regularly ends up having over 450 land divisions... 450 leaders? MAYBE if a customizable auto-assign feature could be added - say, that you could set parameters so that commando leaders go to mtn/para/marine divisions, panzer leaders go to armoured divisions, and so on.

 

[Raczynski]

This sounds like a good idea, but may be a bit of a micromanagement problem when playing, say, the SU, Germany, or even China. The SU regularly ends up having over 450 land divisions... 450 leaders? MAYBE if a customizable auto-assign feature could be added - say, that you could set parameters so that commando leaders go to mtn/para/marine divisions, panzer leaders go to armoured divisions, and so on.

That's already how auto assign works

 

[JoeGiavani]

The problem with this is that if you run out of say, Generals, and you need to promote a Lieutenant General to General, you have to go through ALL your divisions to find a decent Lieutenant General.

 

[unmerged(2456)]

Well not to much advantage as it would just increase micromanagement exponentially, unless they did something like have a 1-month delay after un-assigning someone to reassign them.

 

[Raczynski]

The problem with this is that if you run out of say, Generals, and you need to promote a Lieutenant General to General, you have to go through ALL your divisions to find a decent Lieutenant General.

Did you heard of: ledger

 

[JoeGiavani]

Did you heard of: ledger

Right.
Would still take 5-10 seconds doing it each time.

 

[Arentak]

I think each division should get a leader, and that combat should give a chance to see a divisional leader made into a corp leader. Maybe divisional leaders are NOT re-assignable (i.e. high command has more important things to do then manage at that level), but you could see it.

Then, anytime you group 2 or more, you'd be able to assign a corp commander. I'd love to have seperate orgs from stacks.

The org penalty for leader changing in hoi2 was annoying. If I'm just splitting off a corp from an army group, gosh darn it, that corp should have already had a leader who is now taking his corp away from the same land the old army group occupied, but that doesn't mean he is a new leader.

Army Leader

Corp Leader
Div Leader Div Leader Div Leader