That 5th Brigade

[incognitus]

I have just been looking at the stats I and I have got to wonder... why do we fill up our armoured divisions with MOT and not with ARM? If I am not mistaken, tanks have far more attacks than MOT, and I mean significantly more: 4/5 to 3/1 . I don't see any stat where MOT are stronger... so is it only about costs/supply? Or is it about the terrain penalties tanks get?

 

[Wraith11B]

It's to get the Combined Arms bonus. Pure tanks is super hard, but it's also super expensive and you lose much of the soft attack.

 

[incognitus]

It's to get the Combined Arms bonus. Pure tanks is super hard, but it's also super expensive and you lose much of the soft attack.

Ah, right. The Combined Arms, forgot about that. But regarding soft attack... ARM have 4 SA, MOT only 3... so what do you mean when you say you lose soft attack?

 

[Kovax]

If you can afford to build and supply those tanks, fine. If not, then INF provides 3/4 of the firepower for a tiny fraction of the cost, so you can have a LOT of infantry brigades instead of a single tank brigade. The tanks also use fuel, which is in absurdly abundant supply in hoi3, but can still be problematical to transport to the front. You would still want one MOT in the division, to get the combined arms bonus.

 

[mergele]

If you want to caonquer the last spots in africa and need more firepower for your divisions how about dropping an airfield and using 2 TACs? I haven't tried it myself, but those bombers should be pretty devastating and have enough range to cover about half the distance to the next shore if you put them on the coast. Just plop down a lvl 2 airfield on your halfway mark and use 2 cav divisions and those TACs you probably have left over from other parts of the war.