jrm16311
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Joined: 11/12/2007 Status: offline
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This topic might be ultra-geeky, but let's face it we are all geeks here. I started playing with my buddy a few days after the game was released. We've played several scenarios and while learning all the "ins and outs" of the game I started thinking about how to best organize my forces to best optimize my supply lines and also best manage unit replacements. After doing some Google research, I decided not to reinvent the wheel and used something similar to the US Army structure, using four levels of HQ (Supreme, Army, Corp, and Division). Reporting to each ground force Division HQ, I build several large formations as follows: 1 Heavy Armored Div. 5hv tanks, 10 med tanks, 5 AT, 50 rifle/SMG, 5 flak, x trucks 1 Light Armored/Calvary Div. 5 med tanks, 10 light tanks, 50 rifle/smg, 5 flak, x trucks 4 Mech. Infantry Div. 220 rifle/smg, 30mg, 30baz, 20mortar, 10 light tanks, 5 flak, 5 at-guns, x trucks 2 Mech. Infantry Reg. (for guarding the flanks) 50 rifle, 30mg, 5 at-gun, 5 light tanks, 5 flak, x trucks 1 Engineering Corp 20 rifle/smg, 100 eng, 5 flak, 5 at-gun, x trucks 1 Artillery Regiment 20 rifle/smg, 10 flak, 20 art. 1 Mt. Division (optional, infantry only so they can move through mountains...duh, hence the name) 10 scouts, 50 rifle/smg, 10 mg, 5 baz, 5 mortar, 20 eng I also set up an Air Command HQ for each theater to support the ground forces Division HQ. These two are set up with large formations as follows: 1 Fighter Interception 10-20 fighers 2 Bomber Groups (with fighter escorts) 10 fighters, 20 bombers 1 Airlift Group 5-10 air transports 1-2 Airborne Infantry (paratroopers) 100-200 paratroopers The other thing is that I've standardized the exact number of units each formation starts with, as you can see above, (still need some tweaking) and which I try to maintain by replacing as needed. I find this makes allocating replacements across the entire war map easier. I also find it helps adjusting production lines quickly because you know approximately how many of each unit is needed. I'm wondering how other players here approach the game. How do players organize themselves, Supreme HQ down to the individual formation? What unit complement do players use for each formation type (armored, infantry, ect.)? Do you guys find that using many smaller formations is better than using fewer large formations? Feedback/input would be great.
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