Types of Support Battalions
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Recon, Engineers, Signals, Field Hospital, Logistics Company, Field Maintenance, Artillery, Anti Air, Anti Tank, Rocket artillery.
I believe that's all of them.
edit: forgot Military Police
I believe that's all of them.
edit: forgot Military Police
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Signals like communication/radio companies. Gives a bonus to planning bonus speed and reinforcement chance.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...development-diary-28th-of-august-2015.879058/ is the dev diary.
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They have SP ART/AA/AT/RA but they will be normal btns and not support btns as far as i know.
We've really only seen the SPAT or TD being used and they were used as a btn. Im not sure if you could use them as a support btn but i don't think you can.
We've really only seen the SPAT or TD being used and they were used as a btn. Im not sure if you could use them as a support btn but i don't think you can.
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Support attached to the division doesn't reduce movement speed of I recall correctly so if you attach it to a tank division it will act like SPART/AA/AT
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Because you can only attach 1 arty to the support slot.
if you put arty on the combat slot it will slow the unit down.
Why is it fishy? Truck+gun= motorized arty. It's also historical, most mobile divisions had motorised arty(and not SP-arty)
Towed arty still be slower then SP and reduce speed of mobile forces like tanks and motorized infantry
why should be the truck with the arty piece slower than the truck with 20 soldiers. And if the terrain is poor booth are going to be slow. So why should mot towed arty be slower than mot inf.
And for SP arty. that you have a 20 ton tank for only one gun doesn´t really help here. maybe it is a bit faster in mud or terrains like that. But if you have to stop every 150 kilometers and refill from your transport trucks, which have the same speed as the trucks towing the arty your are at the same speed.
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They should add cavalry and motorised infantry attachments as support units. Historically for example this was done by Germans when they attacked into Crimean peninsula, they had too few mobile units to form motorised divisions, but they did attach mobile units into foot infantry units. A lot of HOI3 mods that have done research on this have added infantry and motorised infantry as separate combined arms, so you would get bonus from adding motorised infantry into regular infantry (if you want to) division, making that historical composition worth it.
Not sure, but i think Hungary and Romania also had small amount of cavalry or motorised infantry into some infantry divisions.
In any case, infantry divisions with mobile components were historical reality. And of course we can trace it back to pre-WW2, during WW1 German guard infantry divisions might have had attachments of cavalry, and before WW1 cavalry was far more widespread.
There are even stories of Roman Legionaries mounting up and riding into scene of battle, then dismounting. Early form of Dragoons AKA similar idea as WW2 cavalry. But i don`t have evidence to back that up.
Not sure, but i think Hungary and Romania also had small amount of cavalry or motorised infantry into some infantry divisions.
In any case, infantry divisions with mobile components were historical reality. And of course we can trace it back to pre-WW2, during WW1 German guard infantry divisions might have had attachments of cavalry, and before WW1 cavalry was far more widespread.
There are even stories of Roman Legionaries mounting up and riding into scene of battle, then dismounting. Early form of Dragoons AKA similar idea as WW2 cavalry. But i don`t have evidence to back that up.
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