What will deploying endless swarms of troops do?

[Opanashc]

Yes, that what I've repeatedly stated I am doing. Because those are the stats that appear accurate and easily available, not the ones that were calculated post-war by comparing through-put, and don't actually tell you what the strength of the Soviet armed forces at any given time.

So what is better, apples or trees?
You reject the guy whose job was to research the Soviet archives and come up with figures as inaccurate. I showed you, how your figure of 6.4 mil fits in with our figure of 10-11.5 mil.

Yes, if the Soviets had been threatened by potential amphibious invasions across wide areas, whilst having to defend against a strategic air offensive, whilst trying to conduct a strategic air offensive of their own, whilst conducting a submarine war against a determined enemy, whilst trying to hold down large swathes of occupied territory against partisan resistance, then they too would not have been able to concentrate so many troops on that front. However, the men doing this most definitely were fighting.

If standing around and waiting for the enemy is fighting - sure. But guard duty is not the same as combat.

 

[ObssesedNuker]

Not on the Eastern front because it is the figure that includes the STAVKA reserves,

Table translated from Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voina 1941-45. Dejstvuyushchaya Armiya for January 1st 1944:

The table makes this perfectly clear: total frontline forces deployed comes out to nearly 6.4 million forces, with 533,110 in the STAVKA reserve and another 4,087,081 elsewhere. Add to this NKVD and NKPS personnel.

and because he states that it is not exclusively the figure for troops on the Eastern Front, but otherwise,

1) Using a plucked-out-of-the-air figure for German commitments to the Eastern Front.

It is hardly plucked out of air: the Germans committed 2.5 million troops against the Soviets at the start of 1945 as opposed to 1 million against the WAllies. I'm sure you can do the basic division to figure out level the percentage of commitment that represents.

2) Using an unsourced table for far eastern strength

table from the 11th volume of the Soviet official history of WW2 showing personnel and equipment strength of Soviet ground forces

Try again?

 

[DrinkingHeavily]

I like cheese.

 

[Amaror]

Volksturm anyone? Yeah this would be great. Personally the thing I am hoping for the most in terms of changes, is a far better, more aware, more able AI in HOI4. I really hope they've devoted so much more time to it than before. I love Pdx games but the AI is usually sadly not all that bright.

Well to be fair the AI of Paradox games is usually still miles beyond any other strategy AI. It's only stupid compared to humans but for itself it's actually quite smart.

 

[Denkt]

if there are 30,000 troops, and 3000 rifles, then at 10-1 ratio they should be able to hold up the 1 unit for a couple of days right, enough to send in reinforcements of another 30,000 troops with 3000 rifles.

Well the 30 000 men will probably still take up the same combat space as 30 000 fully armed men so 10% armed divisions will likely offer very low combat power per space and combine undertraining you will have a disaster.