Reducing Mountain Attack Penalty for Mountain Divisions?

[writerman74]

Hi, I'm playing BI 8.5.2 (and yes, suffering random crashes), but I'm a little puzzled on the make up of a good mountain division. I'm trying to minimize the mountain and hill attack penalties, which seem to get pretty high for troops trained to fight in said terrain.

Right now my mountain div looks like this:

mtn inf
armored sup
pack art
motorcycle recon
truck
moto engineer
hq

With this setup there's a -27.9% mountain attack penalty and +111.5% for mountain defense.
In hills, the attack penalty is +0.6, and defense is +37.1.

Interestingly, if I add another mountain div (I have the tech for 8 slots), the mountain penalty attack penalty drops to 18% something.

I guess, I'm asking what you guys field for mountain divs? Do these penalties seem kinda high to you?

Suggestions? Thoughts? Advise?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Kovax]

I don't play BI, but adding armored support into a mountain division sounds rather unintuitive at best. I would think that your armored and motorized elements are where you're drawing the penalties.

 

[writerman74]

Mods, could you please move this thread to the Black Ice sub thread. I didn't realize I was posting it in the main HOI3 forum.