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We probably need the entire screen to help more.
Some things that come to mind. Are you fighting without fuel? Without supplies? Is the enemy inside the Maginot Line?
Some things that come to mind. Are you fighting without fuel? Without supplies? Is the enemy inside the Maginot Line?
This is the northernmost territory in the Netherlands, we have fuel and supplies to spare.
Here's a photo of a much earlier save, but the borders are basically the same.
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What templates are you running? Do you have green Air? Are you attacking to open combat width from multiple angles? Do you have support companies such as radios to get reinforcement rate? More info would greatly help.
There appears to be a lot of under-equipped divisions, and you appear to be attacking with purely battle plans and only one tile attacks with low combat width.
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Stock templates, tank divisions are a little different and have heavy tanks in them. Red air even though I have sent every airplane I have (about 2.5k of them, close-air support, fighter and tactical bomber) into this region. I have every support company.
Yeah stock german templates are not good at all, pure infantry has really bad attack. Recommend getting infantry into a 7-2 style with 7 infantry battalions and 2 artillery in the line. The problem with heavy tanks is they are slow and not overly effective. The air situation, well, maybe you are using too many old planes? Also, you need to add support companies to division templates for them to work. Maintenance is quite useless, but the rest are good. They are found on the far left of the division template creator micro-screen. In basic concept, soft attack does damage to infantry and hard attack does damage to tanks. Also, you can't have too many divisions without equipment (orange/yellow bar) and the green bar is their organization, and when they have 0 org they can't fight. If you need more help i'll stay in the thread.
Edit: cavalry is absolute trash, also did you do doctrines? You can also change divisions to different templates even after they are deployed with a button on the army screen.
OK I will do as you said, but what about the planes? I have the newest ones.
Yeah the air war can be quite hard to understand, especially from an outside view where i don't know the exact problem. I would just think that maybe you haven't actually assigned your air-wings to a mission (the bar at the top, or zxcvbnm key row on US qwerty keyboard). Keep me and others updated and we'll be here to help.
Thank you for the info, I'm very new to the game. I'll do everything you said and google the aviation thing. I just needed to know what was the problem so I don't think I'll post here anymore. Thanks again.
Consider these factors.
1. What is the terrain like? Are you crossing a river, attacking a mountain, attacking a fort?
2. Who has air superiority?
3. Are your divisions fully planned? Planning is vital but many times overlooked as people micromanage their wars. When attacking a strong enemy position, it helps to be at high planning values (which accumulates over-time once you assign an army to a region).
4. What is the intelligence sector of this war looking like? Do you have a full spy network in the territory you are attacking and have you deciphered their codes? The inverse is just as important. Have they built up spy networks in your territory and deciphered your codes?
5. Are you using effective division templates? (Combat width of 10, 20, or 40) (Tank divisions fully fueled.)
1. What is the terrain like? Are you crossing a river, attacking a mountain, attacking a fort?
2. Who has air superiority?
3. Are your divisions fully planned? Planning is vital but many times overlooked as people micromanage their wars. When attacking a strong enemy position, it helps to be at high planning values (which accumulates over-time once you assign an army to a region).
4. What is the intelligence sector of this war looking like? Do you have a full spy network in the territory you are attacking and have you deciphered their codes? The inverse is just as important. Have they built up spy networks in your territory and deciphered your codes?
5. Are you using effective division templates? (Combat width of 10, 20, or 40) (Tank divisions fully fueled.)
Have you tried retreating (to a river or other defensible position) and letting your decisions refresh a bit? Some of your divisions seem to have very low strength. The enemy will also spread itself out over a larger area making breakthroughs easier.
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It's also worth remembering combat width. Width is defined as 80 + 40 for each extra province you attack from after the first.
Units can only fight whilst on the front line. What this means is although you have 41 divisions what you probably have is 4-6 on the frontline and the other 35 divisions all sitting around watching.
They don't contribute anything to the fight but they DO still suck up supplies thereby increasing the chances your frontline runs short.
If you move 20 or so of them a few provinces back (into an earlier supply zone) you'll find that everybody fights better.
In this game more is not always better.
(and yes as others have pointed out the orange bars represent unit strength and a lot of yours are understrength.)
Units can only fight whilst on the front line. What this means is although you have 41 divisions what you probably have is 4-6 on the frontline and the other 35 divisions all sitting around watching.
They don't contribute anything to the fight but they DO still suck up supplies thereby increasing the chances your frontline runs short.
If you move 20 or so of them a few provinces back (into an earlier supply zone) you'll find that everybody fights better.
In this game more is not always better.
(and yes as others have pointed out the orange bars represent unit strength and a lot of yours are understrength.)
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This is really helpful, thanks. I thought I could just rush the enemy with a ton of troops.
Could you show a screenshot of your templates?
To start off, don't use under strength divisions. They take steep penalties from not having 100% equipment. Only make templates you have equipment for. To upgrade your army division by division, duplicate your templates and change to the new template division by division. Don't modify existing templates that cause insufficient equipment.
Maybe this also helps a bit: https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Land_battle
And keep in mind that you can click or hover with the mouse almost everything in the game. If you click the red bubble with the number 91 on it you see the combat screen that gives a lot more details on the combat (an why you might be losing).
And keep in mind that you can click or hover with the mouse almost everything in the game. If you click the red bubble with the number 91 on it you see the combat screen that gives a lot more details on the combat (an why you might be losing).
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According to that screenshot (one of) your biggest problem is understrength divisions.
@Archerich already mentioned it but since you didn't react to that I just want to emphasize on that.
This snippet shows it in a nutshell:
The green bar below the unit symbol represents its organisation. If the organisation drops to zero the battles is lost.
The yellow-ish bar represents the unit's strength which is basically the ratio of equipment it has. So basically your units (and the units of your Soviet ally suffer the same problem) are fullfilling the Soviet WW2 meme about one rifle for two soldiers.
Short term solution: Consolidate your divisions (there is somewhere an option for that which merges two or more understrength divisions into one near full strength).
Then stop fighting so organisation can replenish.
Long term solution: Ramp up equipment production and only train so many divisions your industry can support.
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So should I just disband divisions with super low strenght and train less for now?
You may not need to disband them. If you have enough equipment and manpower to replace the losses, the divisions just need to rest out of battle for a short period to give them a chance to re-equip themselves.
If you disband a division you get the equipment and manpower back but lose any experience those troops have accumulated.
You should train less divisions if you are not keeping up with equipment needs for your existing divisions and training new ones.
If you disband a division you get the equipment and manpower back but lose any experience those troops have accumulated.
You should train less divisions if you are not keeping up with equipment needs for your existing divisions and training new ones.
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