any tips on organizing units as germany. I''m playing right now and its june of 1936. I usually tend to make giant plobs of 3 but I'm sure there is a better more strategic, let alone historical way of doing it. any suggestions?
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I used this 3 divs organization a lot, until I began to notice that using separate divs seems more effective.
Separating all corps into single divs, assigning maj. Generals to some, with a few Lt. Generals and Generals leading the stack on the province.
Is pretty much as historical it can gets. Plus, you can name some divs and organize an OOB like in HoI3. But it takes a lot of patience to do that.
Separating all corps into single divs, assigning maj. Generals to some, with a few Lt. Generals and Generals leading the stack on the province.
Is pretty much as historical it can gets. Plus, you can name some divs and organize an OOB like in HoI3. But it takes a lot of patience to do that.
I more or less orient my organisation after my avaiable commanders in order to get the best performance out of my units - the generals with skill 4 or higher get units tailored to their abilities. Early in the game, this mainly means seperate divisions. Afterwards, I let skill 3 commanders have the rest in larger 3-division corps (and larger units for the few good generals).
3 division corps with one engineer brigade present for infantry. Armour and motorised can be single, double or triple. HQs commanded by Generals/FMs on their own or with 3 infantry divisions/motorised divisions depending on the speed of the HQ.
If the Romanians/hungarians give you units (or you military takeover them) stick 6 of their divisions together apart from their armoured units (if they have any). Makes a nice corps to throw in out defended Russian cities without any German support. Then when you exhaust them/enough of them die, attack with ethnically German truppen.
You can do this "sacrifice" with Romanian/Hungarian aircraft squadrons too. They dont mind it.
If the Romanians/hungarians give you units (or you military takeover them) stick 6 of their divisions together apart from their armoured units (if they have any). Makes a nice corps to throw in out defended Russian cities without any German support. Then when you exhaust them/enough of them die, attack with ethnically German truppen.
You can do this "sacrifice" with Romanian/Hungarian aircraft squadrons too. They dont mind it.
I tend to keep the majority of my infantry in 3 division stacks. Armor are in single stacks for flexibility and i keep motor and mech either in single stacks or in stacks of two. This way i can always move my mobile forces on the battlefield as needed. Like jonesuk said, if i get allied units, or take control of them, I put them in stacks of 6 or 9 for defensive purposes, nothing more.
With infantry, most are in corps of 3 div with 1 brigade each of ENG/ART/AT. HQ stacks are usually HQ+SPART/INF+AC/INF+ENG. I'll make several single INF+AC divisions to move around as needed. Armor is usually single division or combined with MOT. I like throwing AT on my MOT divisions simply because it's super cheap and has decent stats after 41. Each province in the west has one INF corp with AA replacing AT.
My leg infantry tends to be grouped together in sets of three divisions Eng/art/art or some variation on that theme. My HQs are either lone units or they serve as a spearhead with 3 div of med armor and 2 of mot/mech, and garrisons are typically lone units. It might be mentioned that its been a while since I've played vanilla AoD however so I may need to re-evaluate my situation.
(eng is mixed with stacks so the whole corps/army has the dig in bonus)
(eng is mixed with stacks so the whole corps/army has the dig in bonus)